Nathalia Holt | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | December 13, 1980 |
| Occupation | Author |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, University of Southern California, Tulane University |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Notable works | Rise of the Rocket Girls,The Queens of Animation,Cured |
Nathalia Holt (born December 13, 1980) is a journalist and an American author of non-fiction. Her works include Cured, Rise of the Rocket Girls,The Queens of Animation and Wise Gals.
Holt is from New York, NY. She studied at University of Southern California, Tulane University, and Harvard University. Her career includes work at the Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Institute. [1]
Her research as a science writer has included work at the JPL archives, the Caltech Library, and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard. [2] Her work appears in The Atlantic, [3] The New York Times, [4] PBS, [5] Popular Science, [6] and NPR. [7]
Holt is a journalist [8] who documents the untold history of women. She has published three books in the field [9] and spoken publicly on the history of women in science. [10]
Holt's book Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars (2016) chronicles the lives of women computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. [11] It also puts them into the context of milestones in both scientific and more general history. Supervisors Macie Roberts and later Helen Ling, Barbara Paulson and Susan Finley employed women as computers at a time when few scientific careers were open to women. [12]
Holt's book The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History (2019) tells the story of a group of female animators working at the Walt Disney Studios during the Golden age of animation. [13] She chronicles the prejudice faced by the artists and the triumphs contributed to American film by Mary Blair, Retta Scott, and Gyo Fujikawa. [14]
Holt's book Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built The CIA And Changed The Future of Espionage (2022) explores the unsung female spies of WWII who built the CIA [15] She tells the stories of Eloise Page and Elizabeth Sudmeier who used espionage against Nazi Germany during World War II and the Soviet Union during the early Cold War. [16] Holt writes of the Petticoat Panel that fought for institutional changes for women at the CIA. [17]
Her book Cured: The People Who Defeated HIV (2015) discusses the scientific complexities of two patients who have been exceptions to the usual procession of AIDS. Each has experienced a "functional cure", raising hopes that researchers may someday find a "safe and reliable way" to protect patients against HIV. Two types of genetic mutation - the “exposed uninfected” and the “elite controllers,” - appear to be able to resist the disease. Holt describes the science involved, to the extent that it is currently understood. [18]
Holt lives in Monterey, California.[ citation needed ]
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the United States Armed Forces. Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda, subversion, and post-war planning.
Robert Philip Hanssen was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history".
HIV-positive people, seropositive people or people who live with HIV are people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus which if untreated may progress to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Christopher John Boyce is a former American defense industry employee who was convicted of selling United States spy satellite secrets to the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
The United States of America has conducted espionage against the Soviet Union and its successor state, the Russian Federation.
María Aline Griffith (y) Dexter, Countess of Romanones was an American-born Spanish aristocrat, socialite, and writer who worked in the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II and later for the CIA as a spy. The spouse of Luis Figueroa y Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno, a Spanish grandee, she was a close friend to world leaders and celebrities including Nancy Reagan, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Audrey Hepburn.
The Defense Clandestine Service (DCS) is an arm of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which conducts clandestine espionage, intelligence gathering activities and classified operations around the world to provide insights and answer national-level defense objectives for senior U.S. policymakers and American military leaders. Staffed by civilian and military personnel, DCS is part of DIA's Directorate of Operations and works in conjunction with the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations and the U.S. military's Joint Special Operations Command. DCS consists of about 500 clandestine operatives, which is roughly how many case officers the CIA had in the early 2000s before its expansion.
The Berlin patient is an anonymous person from Berlin, Germany, who was described in 1998 as exhibiting prolonged "post-treatment control" of HIV viral load after HIV treatments were interrupted.
Glenn Duffie Shriver is an American convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for China. At the behest of Chinese intelligence, Shriver unsuccessfully applied for jobs with the US State Department and CIA, meeting with handlers from China more than 20 times. He was first approached while living in China by operatives of the Shanghai State Security Bureau, a subsidiary of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS), who hoped to develop a mole which would provide them information regarding American foreign policy. He was caught and arrested by the FBI soon after applying to a job with the CIA's National Clandestine Service. In a 2010 plea bargain, he pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit unlawful conveyance of national defense information, and served four years in prison at the Federal Correctional Institution in Elkton, Ohio. He was released in 2013, and was later depicted in the short film Game of Pawns, commissioned by the FBI.
David Wise was an American journalist and author who worked for the New York Herald-Tribune in the 1950s and 1960s, and published a series of non-fiction books on espionage and US politics as well as several spy novels. His book The Politics of Lying: Government Deception, Secrecy, and Power (1973) won the George Polk Award, and the George Orwell Award (1975).
Game of Pawns: The Glenn Duffie Shriver Story is a 2013 American docudrama short film about the Glenn Duffie Shriver case. It was produced by Rocket Media Group, in association with the Counter-Intelligence Unit of the FBI and released online in April 2014. One of the film's goals was to warn students of dangers in China. It featured the actor Joshua Murray as Shriver. Its runtime is 28 minutes. It changes some elements of the story from the real-life scenario, as Shriver is portrayed as a student even though he had already graduated in real life by the time he began the espionage scheme, since the FBI wanted this as a video to warn American tertiary students studying abroad.
Barbara Jean Paulson was an American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and one of the first female scientists employed there. Paulson began working as a mathematician at JPL in 1948, where she calculated rocket trajectories by hand. She is among the women who made early progress at JPL.
Operation Lincoln was a CIA program in which travelers to the Soviet Union would be briefed before a trip to the USSR, then debriefed after they returned.
Sylvia Holland was a British-born concept artist, illustrator, and the second woman to become a storyboard artist for Walt Disney Productions. She worked for Disney in the 1930s and 1940s and is especially known for her work on the 1940 film Fantasia.
Helen Ling is a former software engineer who worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She made considerable efforts to make JPL more diverse.
The "Rocket Girls" were the women that worked at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) before the development of desktop computers. These women are mostly unknown, but they did the majority of all hand calculations for missions. Most of these women were given the nickname of "computers" due to their abilities in the fields of physics and mathematics.
Grace Goodhue Huntington was an American aviator and animator. As an pilot, she achieved a record altitude in her Taylorcraft light airplane of 24,310.975 ft. in 1940. She was the second woman hired into Disney's lead animation department, after Retta Scott. The animation techniques she created have been replicated globally.
Evelyn Kennedy Myers was a music editor for the Walt Disney Company, where she contributed to over 100 movies, including Lady and the Tramp (1955), Sleeping Beauty (1959), Mary Poppins (1964), and The Jungle Book (1967).
Prasansook "Fawn" Veerasunthorn is a Thai film director and animator. She worked on the Disney Animation films Frozen (2013), Moana (2016), and Zootopia (2016) as a storyboard artist, and as head of story on Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). The first feature film she directed was Disney's Wish (2023), in collaboration with Chris Buck.
Jane Wallis Burrell was an American intelligence officer during World War II and the early part of the Cold War. She studied in the US, Canada and France in the 1930s and traveled widely in Europe. Wallis Burrell later became a housewife before joining the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as a clerk in 1943. Her work in photographic analysis was commended and she was chosen to join the new X-2 Counter Espionage Branch. She transferred to London in December 1943 and followed the Sixth United States Army Group to France and Germany in the following years. Wallis Burrell's work with double agents helped to deceive German forces prior to the liberation of Brest, France.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
