Neylan McBaine

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Neylan McBaine
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Neylan McBaine in 2019
Born1977 (age 46–47)
Manhattan, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
SpouseElliot Smith
Children3
Relatives Ariel Bybee (mother) Jock McBaine (Father)
John Francis Neylan (great-grandfather) [3]
Website
www.neylanmcbaine.com

Neylan McBaine (born 1977) [4] is an American writer and marketer. As a writer, she focuses on topics related to women in Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). She has been published in Patheos.com, PowerofMoms.com, Newsweek, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought,Segullah, Meridian Magazine and BustedHalo.com. [5]

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She wrote How to Be a Twenty-First Century Pioneer Woman (2008) and Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women's Local Impact (2014), and is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Mormon Women Project. [6] [7]

As a marketer, McBaine worked in Silicon Valley in digital marketing. In 2017, she co-founded Better Days 2020, a non-profit that popularizes Utah women's history through education, legislation and art. [8]

Biography

McBaine was born and raised in New York City. Her mother, Ariel Bybee McBaine, was a singer with the Metropolitan Opera and became known at the Met for her performance as Jenny the whore in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny when she replaced Teresa Stratas on very short notice. Details of these performances can be found in the MET archives. The themes of pleasure, prostitution, debauchery, particularly with respect to the role of Jenny, were controversial but also resonated with themes of excess and exaggeration expressed by well-known popular musicians such as David Bowie in the 1970's. [9] In the play itself, Jenny is seen waiting on multiple men who have lined up for her services and in other portions of the play, men argue over the price to spend a night with her.

Neylan spent much of her childhood at that location. She graduated from the Chapin School [10] and studied piano at the Juilliard School in the high school extension student extension program. She then graduated from Yale University in English literature. [8] [11] Her father, Jock McBaine was an attorney.

As a newlywed after Yale, she moved to San Francisco, California and began working in public relations and marketing. Her husband's graduate studies then took them to Boston, Massachusetts. [2] In 2009 they settled in Salt Lake City, and McBaine became creative director at Bonneville Communications where she worked on the "I'm a Mormon" advertising project. [12]

McBaine self-published her first book in 2009, How to be a Twenty-First Century Pioneer Woman. In 2014, Greg Kofford Books published her book Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women's Local Impact, which addressed tensions regarding the role of women in Mormon culture, and proposes possible solutions. [2]

In 2010 McBaine founded the Mormon Women Project, a 501c3 nonprofit that collects and publishes interviews of Mormon women from various countries around the world. [13] As a Mormon feminist, McBaine also advocated for LDS women to lead the church's refugee-assistance efforts. [14] She served as Chief Marketing Officer at Brain Chase Productions, maker of an online learning program for grade school students. [8]

In 2017, McBaine co-founded Better Days 2020, a non-profit that popularizes Utah women's history through education, legislation and art. She serves as CEO of the organization, preparing Utah to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Utah being the first place a woman cast a legal ballot in the modern nation.

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  1. ↑ McBaine, Neylan (Winter 2007). "Seeds of Faith in City Soil: Growing Up Mormon in New York City". Dialogue . 40 (4): 163–77. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  2. 1 2 3 "Career Day with Neylan McBaine". Aspiring Mormon Women. August 25, 2014. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  3. ↑ Laura Craner (January 26, 2012). "Emboldening Women (Through Identity): an interview with Neylan McBaine, founder of the Mormon Women Project". A Motley Vision. Retrieved 2015-03-05.
  4. ↑ Brooks, Joanna; Steenblik, Rachel Hunt; Wheelwright, Hannah, eds. (2016). Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings. Oxford University Press. p. ix. ISBN   978-0-19-024803-1.
  5. ↑ McBaine, Neylan (February 9, 2010). "The Mormon Women Project". Whitney Johnson. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  6. ↑ McBaine, Neylan. "About Neylan". NeylanMcBaine.com. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  7. ↑ Stack, Peggy Fletcher (September 28, 2010). "Mormon feminism: It's back". Salt Lake Tribune .
  8. 1 2 3 Capital IQ. "Neylan McBaine: Executive Profile & Biography". BusinessWeek. Bloomberg. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  9. ↑ Devereux, Eoin (2015). David Bowie: Critical Perspectives. E-book: Taylor & Francis. ISBN   978-1-315-79775-5.
  10. ↑ "Class of 1995". Alumnae Class Representatives. The Chapin School. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  11. ↑ McBaine, Neylan (Spring 2008). "Just Mom, Dad, and Me". Segullah. 4 (1). Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  12. ↑ Holly Welker (May 25, 2011). "Should the Mormon Church Compare Itself to Wal-Mart?". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  13. ↑ Cris (October 7, 2014). "November 7, 2014 — Neylan McBaine". Miller Eccles Study Group Texas. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  14. ↑ Peggy Fletcher Stack (March 29, 2016). "Mormon feminist rejoices at call for LDS women to lead refugee effort". Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  15. ↑ Neylan McBaine (August 2, 2012). "To Do the Business of the Church: A Cooperative Paradigm for Examining Gendered Participation Within Church Organizational Structure". FairMormon . Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (FAIR). Retrieved 2015-03-05.
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