Jayne Loader

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Jayne Loader is an American director and writer best known for the 1982 Cold War documentary The Atomic Cafe .

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Early life

She was born in 1951 in Weatherford, Texas. She graduated from Reed College (B.A., 1973) and the University of Michigan (M.A., 1976).

The Atomic Cafe

She co-directed The Atomic Cafe (1982) [1] with Pierce Rafferty and Kevin Rafferty [2] [3] [4] and has guested on many television shows, [5] including Late Night With David Letterman. [6] [7] [8] She is the author of Between Pictures (1986, ISBN   0-312-91345-1), a novel, [9] [10] Wild America (1989, ISBN   0-8021-1106-8), a collection of short stories, [11] [12] [13] and articles on film [14] and culture. [15]

Later years

In 1995, she created the CD-ROM and Website Public Shelter, [16] [17] [18] which premiered in January 1996 at the New Media Center of the Sundance Film Festival [19] and received two New Media INVISION Awards at Comdex. [20] [21]

From 1995 to 1997, she wrote WWWench, [22] one of the first blogs [23] [24] [25] and traveled the world as a New Media evangelist. [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] In 1988, she debuted as a fictional character in Timothy Leary's What Does WoMan Want? [31] In 1999, she married the astronomer Robert Kirshner. [32] From 2001 to 2007, Loader and Kirshner were the Masters of Quincy House, [33] one of Harvard's twelve undergraduate houses, where they lived with their bull terriers, Astra [34] and Albert. [35] During her tenure at Quincy, Loader renovated the Masters' Residence and Gym; [36] [37] helped to redesign the Dining Hall; [38] gave many parties [39] [40] (assisted by the Quincy House Elves [41] ); and launched the controversial Masters' Nights speakers series. [42] [43] While serving on the Steering Group of the Resource Efficiency Program, Loader created the popular Valentine's Day Cosmetics Drive [44] (2003–present), which survives her under the aegis of the Harvard Office for Sustainability. [45]

She lives in Friendship, Maine and Portola Valley, California.

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