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GERRI
Gerri may refer to: *Gerri, a feminine given name: **Gerri Elliott (21st century), American businesswoman **Gerri Green (born 1995), American football player **Gerri Lawlor (21st century), American actress **Gerri Peev (21st century), Bulgarian-British journalist **Gerri Russell (born 1962), American writer **Gerri Santoro (1935–1964), American woman who died from an illegal abortion **Gerri Sinclair (21st century), Canadian businesswoman **Gerri Whittington (1931–1993), African-American secretary **Gerri Willis (21st century), American journalist *Gerri de la Sal, the administrative center of the municipality of Baix Pallars in Spain **Santa Maria de Gerri Santa Maria de Gerri is a monastery in Gerri de la Sal, in the comarca of Pallars Sobirà, Catalonia, Spain, situated on the shores of the Noguera Pallaresa river. History The monastery was founded in 807, and its community adhered to the Benedi ..., a monastery in Gerri * GERRI, a geriatric diagnostic tool {{disambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerri Elliott
Gerri Elliott is an American business executive. Biography Elliott holds a bachelor's degree in political science from New York University. She is currently Executive Vice President, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer for Cisco. She is the founder of Broadrooms.com, a site devoted to executive women who serve or want to serve on corporate boards. Broadrooms is an informational resource, consolidating best practices, education, events, news and blogs related to women on boards. Elliott spent almost 22 years at IBM both in the U.S. and abroad. She held key executive and management positions in strategy development, services and consulting, product management, and sales field and headquarters leadership. In 2001, Gerri joined Microsoft as CVP, Industry Solutions Group, to create worldwide sales and marketing teams dedicated to Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Media and Entertainment, Public Sector and Communication Sector teams. She co-headed the company's $10B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerri Green
Gerri Green (pronounced Gary) (born September 14, 1995) is an American football defensive end for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Mississippi State and was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the sixth round of the 2019 NFL Draft. He has also been a member of the New England Patriots and Washington Football Team. Early life and high school Green was born in Jackson, Mississippi and grew up in Greenville, Mississippi. He attended Greenville High School, where he was a standout defensive player for the Hornets. Rated a four-star recruit by several talent evaluators, Green played in the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star and the Semper Fidelis Bowl after recording 98 tackles, including 11.5 for loss, and 5.0 sacks in his senior year. He committed to play football at Mississippi State over offers from Arkansas, Auburn, Louisiana-Lafayette, Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt. College career Green spent five seasons as a member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerri Lawlor
Gerri Lee Lawlor (May 16, 1969 – January 28, 2019) was an American actress, voice actress and homeless advocate. She was the co-creator, along with Marc Gimbel and Stephen Kearin, of the fictitious Simlish language used in ''The Sims''. Lawlor was the voice of numerous Sims in ''The Sims'', '' The Sims Livin' Large'', '' The Sims: House Party'', '' The Sims Makin' Magic'', ''The Sims 2'', '' The Sims Life Stories'', '' The Sims: Superstar'', and ''SimCity 4''. Lawlor played the "Vanna White" hostess in the 3DO game ''Twisted''. In her spare time, Lawlor was a homeless advocate. In the #BeRobin campaign of 2014, Lawlor performed improvised music and comedy on the street to raise money for the homeless with Margaret Cho Margaret Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American comedian, actress, LGBT social activist, and musician. She is known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and se .... Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerri Peev
Gerri Peev is a Bulgarian-born, New Zealand-raised British journalist. Peev is known for an interview for ''The Scotsman'' of Samantha Power, a foreign policy advisor to U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. During an interview, Power said of Obama's Democratic primary opponent Hillary Clinton: "She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything." Peev included the remark in her article, despite Power's post facto declaration that it was off the record. Power resigned after the article was published. The incident opened a debate about journalistic ethics. Peev told MSNBC "I don't know what the convention is in American journalism, but in Britain here we have very firm rules about the fact that generally, you establish whether a conversation or interview is on or off the record before it actually happens. She made some off-the-cuff remarks which were on the record. She even waited for the tape to start recording and then I think once she noticed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerri Russell
Gerri Russell is an American romantic fiction author, currently residing in the Pacific Northwest with her family. Writing career and awards Before publishing her first novel, Russell's career started in a variety of writing fields, beginning as a newspaper columnist in college. Upon graduation, she worked as a broadcast journalist, newspaper reporter, magazine columnist, technical writer and editor and instructional designer. Russell's first award was the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart in 1998 for her paranormal romance, ''Remember Me''. She won another Golden Heart in 2002 in the short historical category with ''The Warrior Trainer''. The same book won the American Title II contest, sponsored by ''Romantic Times Bookreviews'' magazine and Dorchester Publishing in 2006. Russell began writing when her daughter was three years old. Prior to selling ''The Warrior Trainer'' to Dorchester Publishing, Russell wrote seven novels, several partials and sought publication for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerri Santoro
Geraldine "Gerri" Santoro (; August 16, 1935June 8, 1964) was an American woman who died after receiving an unsafe abortion in 1964. A police photograph of her dead body, published by ''Ms.'', magazine in 1973, became a symbol for the abortion-rights movement in the United States. Biography Santoro was raised, along with 14 siblings, on the farm of a Ukrainian-American family in Coventry, Connecticut. She was described by those who knew her as "fun-loving" and "free-spirited". At age 18 she married Sam Santoro; the couple had two daughters together. Circumstances of death In 1963, her husband's domestic abuse prompted Santoro to leave, and she and her daughters returned to her childhood home. She took a job at Mansfield State Training School, where she met another employee, Clyde Dixon. The two began an extramarital affair and Santoro became pregnant. When Sam Santoro announced he was coming from California to visit his daughters, Gerri Santoro feared for her life. On June 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerri Sinclair
Gerri Sinclair serves as the Innovation Commissioner for the Government of British Columbia. She was appointed in July 2020. Sinclair previously served as a Managing Director at Kensington Capital Partners and was the leader of the firm's Vancouver office, managing the $100 million BC Technology fund and the $91 million BC Renaissance Fund. She has also served as a Director on the Boards of numerous public and private companies and organizations. Sinclair holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance Drama as well as an honorary Doctor of Science in Computing Science from the University of British Columbia. Sinclair was the founding Director of the ExCITE lab at Simon Fraser University, where she was an English professor. She was the founder and CEO of NCompass Labs Inc, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2001. She was General Manager for the MSN Canada subsidiary. Sinclair has served on a number of Canadian national and provincial advisory boards, including the National Advisory Council on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerri Whittington
Geraldine Whittington (September 11, 1931 – January 24, 1993) was the personal executive secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson, and was the first African-American secretary in the White House. Johnson was famous for working long hours and insisting his assistants worked long hours as well. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson became president, he requested a new slate of secretaries. He saw Whittington working in a government office, and requested that his assistant Jack Valenti get her home phone number. Johnson called her unannounced one evening, and requested that she come in that night for an interview. According to audiotapes of Johnson's phone calls, Whittington at first thought the call was a joke, but came to believe that it really was the president on the line. She applied for the job and was offered the position. Having a black woman in the White House was very unusual in the early 1960s. Johnson wanted to advertise the fact that he had hired a black w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerri Willis
Gerri Willis is an American television news journalist and former host of ''The Willis Report'', a daytime program on Fox Business, focusing on consumer and personal finance issues. Early life and education Gerri Willis was born on August 14, 1959, in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. She is a graduate of Columbia Business School and Miami University located in Oxford, Ohio where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow. While attending Miami, she was also the Business Manager of ''The Miami Student'', the oldest college newspaper in the U.S. Career Prior to joining Fox Business, Willis served as the personal finance editor for CNN, hosting a weekly half-hour program titled '' Your Bottom Line'', which focused on ways to save Americans money and the economy's effects on personal finance. Before CNN, she worked at '' Smart Money'' magazine as the senior financial correspondent. She joined the Fox Business Network in March 2010, appearing across all programming on the network. Willis is the au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerri De La Sal
Gerri de la Sal is a village and administrative center of the municipality of Baix Pallars, in Province of Lleida province, Catalonia, Spain. As of 2020, it has a population of 117. Geography Gerri de la Sal is located 119km north-northeast of Lleida Lleida (, ; Spanish: Lérida ) is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital city of the province of Lleida. Geographically, it is located in the Catalan Central Depression. It is also the capital city of the Segrià comarca, a .... References Populated places in the Province of Lleida {{Lleida-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Maria De Gerri
Santa Maria de Gerri is a monastery in Gerri de la Sal, in the comarca of Pallars Sobirà, Catalonia, Spain, situated on the shores of the Noguera Pallaresa river. History The monastery was founded in 807, and its community adhered to the Benedictine rule in 839. Located in the diocese of Urgell, the monastery contributed to the evangelization of the territory, which had been recently conquered by the Christians from the Moors. In 996 the monastery was put under the director protection the Popes, and depended from the Abbey of St. Victor of Marseille. In 1190 all the monastery's possession went under the protection of King Alfonso II of Aragon, and, thanks to numerous donations in the 12th-14th centuries, including the cave monastery of Sant Pere de les Maleses, it became the richest foundation in the county of Urgell. Later it decayed, until, in 1835, it was secularized. Architecture Of the 9th century structure, today only ruins remain. The Romanesque church, built in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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