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Maria R. Battaglia

Maria R. Battaglia, is a member of the Quebec Bar since 1990, an accredited family and matrimonial mediator and a broadcaster.  She is a graduate of McGill University (B.C.L., LLB 1989). Maria represents Province of Quebec on Independent Advisory Board for Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointment.
== Biography ==
Maria R. Battaglia is of Italian descent. Her parents were born and raised in Sicily, and immigrated to Canada in their early twenties. Maria is married to Umberto Macri, an attorney. She is the mother of two boys Robert and Jonathan and and step mother to Sabrina and Tristan. 
She is a graduate of McGill University (B.C.L., LLB 1989). During her years at McGill Law School, Mtre. Battaglia was president of the Law Students Association (1986-87), two terms as Vice President, University Affairs (1987-1989), member of the McGill Senate and Board of Governors. She sat on numerous committees, including McGill’s steering committee, the Student Housing Task Force, the Search Committee for a new Principal and the Search Committee to Name a Dean of Admissions.  Mtre. Battaglia spearheaded the first Student Rights campaign and was responsible for helping to draft new rules for students’ rights and the modifications to the students’ handbook.  Mtre. Battaglia was the student ombudsman and attended numerous events and conferences on the role of an ombudsman. 
Mtre. Battaglia’s interests extend to the Montreal community.  She was the host of “Family Law with Maria Battaglia”, news talk radio CJAD-AM (1999-2007) which aired weekly on Sunday nights, a call-in show giving the Montreal community legal information and direction.  She was a weekly panelist on The Verdict (CTV News) and continues to be a regular contributor to various news programs.  She has been a regular on CTV news (2003-2009), a weekly contributor on Montreal Live with Leslie Robert (1999) and This Morning Live, Global Television (2001-2003).  Mtre. Battaglia continues to be called upon regularly to comment on current events of family law both on television and radio.
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Category:living people
Category:People of Italian descent
Category:Italian people
Maria Samuela

Maria Samuela, born 12 July 1972 in Wellington, New Zealand, is a writer of Cook Islands descent. Samuela began her writing career in the 1990's writing stories for children and has been published in various journals and anthologies. She has been the writer in residence at the Michael King Writers Centre, Victoria University Bookshop and the Robert Lord Cottage. Samuela writes short stories predominantly about Cook Island diaspora and her latest work is about her childhood growing up in Cannon's Creek, Porirua. Samuela's mother emigrated from Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands in the 1950's.
==Academic==
Samuela was a student of Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington's creative writing program which is hosted by the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML). The International Institute of Modern Letters forms part of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University. Upon completion of her studies, Samuela attained a Master of Arts in Creative Writing.
==Publications==
* Beats of the Pa'u. (2022). Te Herenga Waka University Press 
* Love Rules. (n.d.) Radio New Zealand
* Bluey. (2022). adda 
* The Peach Tree. (2022). takahē
Category:1972 births
Category:People from Wellington City
Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Category:New Zealand people
Category:Writers
Maria Sara Popa

Maria Sara Popa (born 29 July 2005) is a Romanian tennis player. She reached No. 1 in the Tennis Europe U14 Rankings, in May 2019 and has a career high of No. 9 in the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour Rankings, achieved in April 2022.
Popa, who began playing at the age of 4, now has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 761.
She played her first ITF Women's singles final in May 2023 and is amongst the world's Top 25 players under 18, ranked in the WTA.
The Romanian (mainstream) mass media wrote about her in the last years, with articles appearing on Adevărul , HotNews , Orange Sport and others.
Maria is set to make her WTA Tour debut later this year, in one of the tournaments from her maiden country.
==ITF Circuit finals==
===Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)===
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Result	W–L	Date 	Tournament 	Tier 	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss 	0-1	May 2023	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Clay 	 	3-6, 2-6
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===Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)===
Result	W–L	Date 	Tournament 	Grade	Surface	Opponent 	Score
Loss 	0–1	Sep 2020	ITF Oradea, Romania	G4 	Clay 	Cara Maria Meșter	4–6, 7–6(7-0), 5–7
Win 	1–1	Jan 2021	ITF Antalya, Turkey	G3 	Clay 	 	6–3, 6–2
===Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)===
Result	W–L	Date 	Tournament 	Grade	Surface	Partner	Opponents 	Score
Win 	1–0	Sep 2020	ITF Constanța, Romania	G5 	Clay 	 	Floriana Popovici	7–5, 6–4
Loss 	1–1	Sep 2020	ITF Oradea, Romania 	G4 	Clay 	 	Cara Maria Meșter	0–6, 1–6
==Tennis Europe summary==
Popa won five out of the nine singles finals she played on this circuit and two out of the eight she played in doubles. The last title she won in May 2019 was also the title which helped her achieve the No. 1 position in the U14 age category.
Overall Singles record: 124-46 (72.9%)
Overall Doubles record: 47-27 (63.5%)
Category:2005 births
Category:People from Bucharest
Category:Romanian people
Category:Tennis players
Maria Svarbova

Maria Svarbova (born in 1988) is a Slovak fine-art photographer. Svarbova's most recognized collection is In the Swimming Pool.
Svarbova was born in 1988 in Zlaté Moravce, Slovakia and she currently lives in Bratislava, Slovakia. She attended Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra and the School of Applied Arts Josefa Vydru in Bratislava. Despite studying restoration and archeology, her preferred artistic medium is photography. Svarbova's artworks has appeared in magazines such as Vogue, Forbes, CNN and The Guardian. She has been commissioned to photograph advertising campaigns for large international companies such as Apple, Murata and Museum of Ice Cream. Svarbova has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world most notably.
Maria Svarbova works depict History of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989)|socialist-era architecture, public spaces and routine actions of daily life. She experiments with colours, space and symmetry of composition. Svarbova finds vast inspiration in modern architecture and design. She prefers brutalist architecture and functionalism. Models in Svarbova's photographies usually lose their personality and identity, individuals appear to be the same.
* Maria Svarbova: Swimming Pool. New Heroes and Pioneers, 2017. 
* Maria Svarbova: Futuro Retro. New Heroes and Pioneers, 2019. 
Selected solo and group exhibitions.
2020
* 212 Photography Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, International Photography Festival
* Ketchum, Idaho, United States|USA, Solo gallery exhibition
* Kyotographie, Art Angle Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, International Photography Festival
* ART Wynwood, Contessa Gallery, Miami,USA, Art Fair
2019
* Lotte Gallery Jamsil, South Korea, Solo gallery exhibition
* Contessa Gallery, Worth Avenue, Palm Beach,USA, Solo gallery exhibition
* Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Minnesota, USA, Solo museum exhibition
* Art Madrid Fair, Gallery BAT, Madrid, Spain, ART Fair
* ART MIAMI, Contessa Gallery, Miami, USA, Art Fair
2018
* Asia Premiere Expo, Art Angle Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, Solo exhibition of whole work
* Weather, Daelim Museum, Seoul, South Korea, Group museum exhibition
*Art Fair Tokyo, Momentum Fine Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Art Fair
* Delpozo, Madrid, Spain, Solo exhibition
2017
* Leica Gallery, Rome, Italy, Solo gallery exhibition
*Leica Gallery, Miami, USA, Solo gallery exhibition
* Fotomatón, Orihuela, Spain, International Photography Festival, Solo museum exhibition
2016
* Plenum Gallery, Catania, Sicily, Italy, Solo gallery exhibition
* Vogue Italia, Milan, Italy, International Photography Festival
* Talent Latent, Tarragona, Spain, International Photography Festival
==In the media==
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Category:Photographers from Slovakia
Category:Slovak people
Category:Living people
Marian Bocek

Marian Bocek (born May 1982) is a European entrepreneur, venture capitalist and philanthropist. He co-founded asset management company IPM Group and InoBat Auto, an integrated R&D and battery production company.
==Education==
Bocek attended the grammar school in Ruzomberok, Slovakia and Austintown Fitch High School in the US before continuing his studies at Oberlin College, where he earned his BA in Economics, and the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded an MSc in Finance.
==Career==
Bocek began his career at Lehman Brothers, in global mergers and acquisitions and investment banking. Prior to co-founding IPM Group, he was a director of InfraMed Infrastructure, a Paris-based emerging market private equity infrastructure fund, backed by the European Investment Bank, Caisse des Depots and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti.
He frequently returns to the University of Cambridge as a lecturer and event panelist on investments in private equity, clean tech and renewable energy. 
Bocek is a guest speaker for FutureNow, a non-profit event platform in Central Europe. 
==Philanthropy==
Bocek is a co-founder of the Give Back Education (GBE) Foundation, which provides scholarships to talented, underprivileged students from Central Europe, giving them the opportunity to study for one year at a high school in the United States as a pathway to gaining quality university education at leading international academic institutions in Western Europe and United States. 
==In the media==
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==References==
==External links==
* Marian Bocek on linkedin
* Marian Bocek | IPM
* InoBat - Marian Bocek - InoBat Auto
* Marian Bocek - InoBat Auto
* Marian Bocek | Crunchbase
* Marian Bocek – FutureNow Conference
Category:1982 births
Category:Entrepreneurs
Category:Venture capitalists
Category:Philanthropists
Category:Oberlin College alumni
Category:Bachelor's degrees
Category:Master's degrees
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Marian Dymalski

Marian Dymalski (20 march, 1954 in Kamienna Góra) member of Polish Olympic Committee Presidium, since 2015 Vice-President of International University Sports Federation, Vice-Chairman of polish Academic Sports Association, Chair of the World University Championships.
== Career and life ==
Graduated Law and Administration from University of Wroclaw. Between 1977 - 1979 was a secretary of the Regional Olympic Club.
He became a Chairman of polish Academic Sports Association in Wroclaw. With his involvement the University Sport Association of Poland was recognized as the Best National University Sport Federation 2016 by International University Sports Federation and the Best University Sport Association 2015 and 2017 by European University Sports Association.
From 1992-1995 he was a member of Youth Council under the polish President. Since 2003 he is a member of International University Sports Federation, in 2015 becoming Vice-Presiden.https://www.fisu.net/about-fisu/governance-structure/executive-committee 2015 - 2018 he was Chairman of the Sports Council within President of Wroclaw.
Marian Dymalski initiated and co-organised 27 World University Championships in Poland and two Winter Universiades in Zakopane in 1993 and 2001 as well as FISU Forum 2008 in Krakow. He is Coordinator of the Summer World University Games 2023 in Ekaterinburg.https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1087926/yekaterinburg-combat-sports-university
== Family ==
He has two sons Marcin (1979) and Konrad (1985).
== Awards ==
* Gold, Silver, i Brown Cross by President of Poland
* Gold and silver Merited sport activist by President of Poland
* Gold medal from Polish Olympic Committee
* Honorary citizen Gwangju
* The Golden Mongoose 2019
* Knight's Cross of the Order of Rebirth of Poland 2019
==References==
== External Links ==
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Category:1954 births
Category:Polish Olympic Committee
Category:International University Sports Federation
Category:University of Wrocław alumni
Category:Polish people
Marian Hamilton Spotts

Marian Hamilton Spotts was a teacher and civic leader in Cincinnati, Ohio.
==Personal life==
Marian Hamilton Spotts was born on September 10, 1896 in St. Mary’s, Ohio, to Charles Robert Hamilton and Ellen Bowles. Spotts’ father, a barber, was originally from Bluffton, South Carolina, where he was born into slavery until he was released by the Union Army in 1861 when he was eleven years old. She had seven other siblings. Marian, also known as Lena/Lenora Marian, married Hardin Allen Spotts, another Wilberforce University graduate. In 1928, their son, Roger Hamilton Spotts, was born. Roger served in the Korean War and was placed in Okinawa, Japan, and later moved to Los Angeles and became a professional saxophone player. He had a daughter, Woni Spotts, with his wife Betty Mosley. Woni went on to become the first Black woman to travel to every country in the world.
==Education and Career==
Spotts attended Wilberforce University and graduated in 1916. Afterwards, she studied at Chicago University and Michigan State College. In Federalsburg, Maryland, Hamilton worked as an elementary school teacher before she moved on to supervising teachers in Caroline County, Maryland. Eventually, she moved back to Ohio to work at her alma mater, Wilberforce University, as a Critic Teacher and History Instructor.
==Published works==
As an active member of the Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, Spotts realized that few records existed for Black, women-led community organizing groups in Cincinnati. After conducting extensive research and interviewing multiple women, Spotts compiled the histories of fifty-seven different Black women who led mutual aid, civic, and social organizations and wrote a book, The History of the Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, 1904-1952.
==Awards==
On March 9, 1952, Spotts was honored by the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority as “Woman of the Year” in recognition of her lifelong commitment to community involvement and service.
==Death==
Marian Hamilton Spotts passed away on March 4, 1980.
Category:1896 births
Category:People from South Carolina
Category:Wilberforce University alumni
Category:University of Chicago alumni
Category:Teachers
Marian Poznański

Marian Poznański was an artist and a commander during the september campaign in 1939. Locked up in Oflag VII A Murnau. Decorated with the Cross of Valour (Poland). There is a street named after him in Jarocin.
== Biography ==
Marian Poznański was born in Jarocin in 1910. He studied at Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan (1926-1931). He was polish rewarded painter and commander during the september campaign in 1939, he was wounded in the Battle of the Bzura. Locked up in Oflag VII-A Murnau (1939-1945). After war he worked as a sacral painter. Decorated with the Cross of Valour (Poland).
Category:1910 births
Category:1978 deaths
Category:Polish artists
Category:Polish military leaders
Marianna W. Davis

Marianna White Davis (January 8, 1929 ~ September 11, 2021) was a professor and author in the United States.https://books.google.com/books?id=D3K5HL3j37gC&pg=PA239&dq=marianna+white+davis&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi81Ziuwp2AAxXTfTABHWgLCGg4ChDoAXoECAYQAw#v=onepage&q=marianna%20white%20davis&f=false She wrote Contributions of Black Women in American History.
She was born in north Philadelphia. Rev. Albert McNeil White, who served in the army, and Laura Bowman White, a teacher, were her parents. In 1931 the family moved back to Columbia, South Carolina. She graduated from Wilkinson High School in 1945, South Carolina State College in 1949, New York University in 1952, and received her doctorate from Boston University.https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6797k2p
She was a professor of English at Benedict College. She was an organizer of the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English.https://books.google.com/books?id=6FYmyTNM174C&pg=PT254&dq=marianna+white+davis&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjOvomqw52AAxXPfDABHfYrCGI4KBDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=marianna%20white%20davis&f=false She organized and produced the Black History Teleconference. She was a member of the United Methodist Church.https://www.myersmortuarysc.com/obituary/DrMarianna-Davis 
She married Clifton E. Davis. Kenneth Renay Davis Sr. was her son.https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess124_2021-2022/prever/4625_20211201.docx The South Carolina House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring her life in 2021.
==Writings==
*A Comparative Analysis of Sentences Written by Eighth Grade Students Instructed in Transformational-generative Grammar and Traditional Grammar (1971)https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Comparative_Analysis_of_Sentences_Writ/V0k8MgAACAAJ?hl=enhttps://books.google.com/books?id=2johAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1722&dq=marianna+white+davis&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAp-jswJ2AAxWggYQIHb-gDB0Q6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=marianna%20white%20davis&f=false
*South Carolina's Blacks and Native Americans, 1776-1976, State Human Affairs Commission
*History of Black Women in America, Volume 1 (1982)https://www.google.com/books/edition/Contributions_of_black_women_to_America/scB8SgAACAAJ?hl=en
*The Enduring Dream: History of Benedict College, 1870-1995
*Teaching African American Literature: Language and Practice, co-authorhttps://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/davis-marianna-white/https://books.google.co.uz/books?id=vFZcAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=falsehttps://www.jstor.org/stable/2901395
*History of the Black Caucus: National Council of Teachers of English, editorhttp://newcitycommunitypress.com/books/blackcaucus.html
*The Bowman Family of South Carolina; Our Roots, Oz and Charity Bowman (2003)https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Bowman_Family_of_South_Carolina/4EQgHAAACAAJ?hl=en
Category:1929 births
Category:People from Philadelphia
Category:Professors
Category:Author
Category:2021 deaths
Marianne Combs

Marianne Combs is an American journalist based in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota. 
== Life and Career ==
A veteran reporter with more than fifteen years with the news desk of Minnesota Public Radio, Combs publicly resigned from MPR on September 13, 2020. In an open letter, Combs (a highly respected journalist) accused MPR News editors of blocking a feature story exposing a longtime history of sexual misconduct by DJ Eric Malmberg, a staff member at the MPR station (The Current). This open letter soon went viral, leading to the firing of Malmberg the following day. The scandal led to the resignation of Jon McTaggart, the president of MPR's parent organization American Public Media on September 23, 2020.
Prior to her resignation from MPR, Marianne Combs authored numerous feature stories showcasing investigative journalism, including on 1980s-era sexual abuse at the Minneapolis-based Children's Theatre Company and its legal fallout in the late-2010s. 
Combs received the “Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists”http://www.mnspj.org/ Journalist of the Year award on June 10, 2020.
== Marianne Combs in the Media ==
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== References ==
== External Links ==
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Category:Journalists
Category:Women journalists
Category:American journalists
Category:American journalism
Category:American women journalists
Category:American women television journalists
Category:Journalists from Minnesota
Category:Minnesota Public Radio
Marianne Díaz Hernández

Marianne Díaz Hernández (Altagracia de Orituco, June 4, 1985) is a Venezuelan writer,
 lawyer and human rights activist.
==Biography==
She is a lawyer graduated from the University of Carabobo and was a postgraduate professor at the Andrés Bello Catholic University. She is also an activist and researcher in human rights and the internet and a member of Creative Commons Venezuela and Global Voices, being part of the board of directors of this organization between 2018 and 2019 as a representative of the volunteer community.
Between 2016 and 2021, she worked as a public policy analyst at the NGO Derechos Digitales. She was a Keep It On campaign fellow at Access Now and is currently leading the #WhyID campaign. She is also co-founder of the Venezuelan NGO Acceso Libre.
As a storyteller, she published her first book of short stories ("Cuentos en el espejo") in 2007, after winning the Monte Ávila Editores Contest for Works by Unpublished Authors. She subsequently published the book of stories "Aviones de papel". In 2011, she was the winner of the I Gustavo Pereira National Biennial of Literature with her book "Historias de mujeres perversas", which would be published in 2013 by El perro y la rana..
==Awards==
* “Global Leader of Digital Human Rights” (2022)
* “Human Rights Heroes” (2019)
* Winner of the Monte Ávila Editores Contest for Works by Unpublished Authors with the book Cuentos en el espejo (2007)
* Winner of the I Gustavo Pereira National Biennial of Literature with the book Historias de mujeres perversas (2013)
==Other publications==
* Cuentos en el espejo, 2008, Monte Ávila Editores.
* Aviones de Papel, 2011, Monte Ávila Editores.
* Historias de mujeres perversas, 2013, El perro y la rana.
* Documenting Internet blocking in Venezuela, 2014, Digital Rights LAC. 
* El cuerpo como dato, 2018, ONG Derechos Digitales. 
* Memes para sobrevivir el apocalipsis, 2021, ONG Derechos Digitales. 
* The return of digital authoritarianism: internet shutdowns in 2021, in co-authorship with Felicia Anthonio. 2022, Access Now. 
Category:1985 births
Category:Venezuelan people
Category:Andrés Bello Catholic University alumni
Category:Lawyers
Category:Human rights activists
Category:Writers