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Naisha Balay is a native New Yorker currently living in Philadelphia, PA. Naisha is a first time published author that has always been a storyteller at her core. She’s always had a love for poetry and has often felt she expressed herself best when writing. Writing had been a solace since a young age and a form of therapy, and self healing practice. She actively wrote this collection for the last ten years. Realizing her purpose in life was to serve others, Naisha is an advocate for domestic violence awareness and continues to be active in empowering young girls and women to encourage self-love. While working on her writing, Naisha developed Beyoutifulgirl.org, with the mission of empowering girls and women to know their self-worth and encouraging them to love themselves. She decided to publish her work with the mindset of being a role model for our younger generation to continue to work hard towards their dreams. As an afro latina, she wanted to create a space for young girls, specifically girls of color to feel like they were enough. She wants girls to know that their beauty come
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About Roland Balay
Roland Balay, an international art dealer and former president of Knoedler & Company, the New York gallery established in 1846 by his grandfather Michael Knoedler.
As written in his NY Times Obituary, Roland Balay was born in Paris, a son of Charles Balay, a French miniaturist painter, and Amélie Knoedler, Michael's daughter. Michael Knoedler, a native of Bavaria, had worked for a Parisian art dealer before immigrating to New York to open a branch on lower Broadway. Mr. Balay, the last of the Knoedler family to manage the gallery, first spent a year at its London branch and two or three in its Paris one. Michael Knoedler, who died in 1878, had been a champion of home-grown American talent and promoted it to his clientele both in New York and Europe.
After his European apprenticeship, Mr. Balay joined the New York gallery in 1922 to work under his uncle Roland Knoedler, Michael's oldest son, who was then known as the dean of the New York art world. By 1930 Mr. Balay had become personally involved in the transaction in which the Soviet government sold 21 old
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Anne Balay
American labor historian
Anne Balay is an American labor historian. A former professor at Indiana University Northwest, she is best known for her oral history collections of LGBT workers: Steel Closets (2014) and Semi Queer (2018).
Biography
After graduating from Wilbur Cross High School,[1] she obtained her A.B. (1986), A.M. (1988), and PhD (1994) from the University of Chicago.[2] After getting her degrees, she worked as a car mechanic from 1996 to 2001.[1][3] She was a lecturer at the University of Illinois Chicago from 2001 to 2007 and an assistant professor at Indiana University Northwest from 2007 to 2014.[1] In 2013, she was denied tenure at IU Northwest, and she later filed an Office for Civil Rights complaint that this action was on the basis that she was a lesbian.[4]
In 2014, she published Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers, a collection of oral histories from LGBT steelworkers;[5] the oral histories had been obtained over a course of
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