Tatiana Mamonova
Tatyana Mamonova (born 10 December 1943), is a founder of the modern Russian women's movement, an internationally renowned democratic women's leader, author, poet, journalist, videographer, artist, editor and public lecturer. Early life. Mamonova was born in the Soviet Union, and was raised in Leningrad after World War II. Career. Mamonova was the first feminist dissident exiled from the Soviet Union in 1980 for re-igniting the Russian women's movement; initiating her organization, then called Woman and Russia, the first NGO promoting the human rights of women from the Soviet Union and connecting Russian speaking women ’s voices and needs with the international community; and editing and publishing the samizdat "Woman and Russia Almanac", now called "Woman and Earth Almanac", an art and literary journal containing the first collection of Soviet feminist writings, which has now been published in 11 languages and in over 22 countries. Prior to her exile from her native St. Petersburg, Russia, she was the first woman organizer and exhibitor in the non-conformist artist movement in Russia and a literary and television journalist with Aurora Publishers (working alongside Josef Brodsky) and Leningrad Television. In 1987 Mamonova, became an associate of the  Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media. She contributed the piece "It's time we began with ourselves" to the 1984 anthology "", edited by Robin Morgan. During her "Ms. Magazine" tour, Mamonova was invited by the Ford Foundation in New York City for a meeting and round-table discussion by leading executives from the foundation shortly after her exile and she received the highest praises from the Ford Foundation's executives for her  intelligence, leadership and courage. Since her exile, in addition to continuing to edit and publish her Almanac nka "Woman and Earth Almanac" and two additional Woman and Earth publications: "Succes d’estime" (since 2001) and "Fotoalbum: Around the World" (since 2004), and to lead and expand her organization, now also called Woman and Earth Global Eco-Network, she has authored four books in the United States, as well as hundreds of articles and travelogues for journals, magazines and newspapers, including "The New York Times", lectured in hundreds of universities and for public organizations in the United States and throughout the world  including participating in a national lecture tour with "Ms. Magazine", and tours of Africa, Australia, Japan, the United States, India, South America, Dominican Republic, Scandinavia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece with support from Amnesty International, Alliance Français, Parliaments and labour and non-governmental organizations. She exhibited in more than 20 countries and sold her award-winning art, many times donating proceeds to benefit the activities of her NGO and human rights campaigns throughout the world. She is also Executive Producer of a weekly educational television series in Manhattan. She is a former post-doctoral fellow with Harvard University 's Bunting Institute, a member of Pen International, the Russia representative to the Sisterhood Is Global Institute, and has been the subject of documentary films, books, and all forms of media coverage from every leading medium including "CBS Evening News with Morton Dean", "The International Herald Tribune", "The New York Times" and the BBC. 2009 marked the 30th Jubilee of her NGO and samizdat. Celebrations were launched in December 2008 at Corinthia Nevskij Palace Hotel, St. Petersburg where she was formally honored as Woman of the Year and on March 7, 2009 at the Contemporary Art Network Gallery in mid -town Manhattan, New York which also included an exhibition of her paintings. The tour campaign continued in other world venues throughout the year. Awards and honors. Her human rights case, which remains unresolved, was selected to be heard among the 10 finalists at the 17th International Human Rights Competition in Caen, France in January 2006. participation in the International Biennale Exhibitions. Rome Italy '75 and was sold there by Vadim Nechaev.