Nathalia Holt | |
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| 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 ]
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".
Spy Kids is an American media franchise centered on a series of spy action comedy films created by Robert Rodriguez. The plot follows various children, who discover that their respective parents are spies and become involved in an espionage organization when their parents go missing. The films include Latino themes, as Rodriguez is of Mexican descent.
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.
Retta Scott was an American artist. She was the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios.
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 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.
Rocket Girl or Girls in plural may refer to:
Sexpionage is the involvement of sexual activity, or the possibility of sexual activity, intimacy, romance, or seduction to conduct espionage. Sex or the possibility of sex can function as a distraction, incentive, cover story, or unintended part of any intelligence operation.
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 Huntington was an American animator and pilot. She was the second woman hired into the Disney Corporation’s lead animation department, after Retta Scott. The techniques she created in the Disney animation department have been replicated globally. As an aviator, she achieved a record altitude in her Taylorcraft light airplane of 24,310.975 ft. in 1940.
Evelyn Kennedy 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), “The Jungle Book” (1967), “Mary Poppins” (1964), and “The Aristocats” (1970). She worked for Disney for the later part of the Golden age of American Animation in the era before the cheaper production techniques of animated television pushed into the spotlight.
Prasansook "Fawn" Veerasunthorn is a Thai film director, animator and storyboard artist. She worked on the Disney Animation films Frozen (2013), Moana and Zootopia as a storyboard artist, as head of story on Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), and is set to make her directorial debut with the 2023 film Wish.
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