Alexia Kelley currently serves as director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She is the principal founder and executive director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.
Kelley graduated with a B.A. in Religion with honors from Haverford College in 1989. Her thesis focused on the writings and speeches of the Quaker abolitionist and suffragist, Lucretia Mott. After college, she worked at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) in Washington, D.C., a Quaker social justice lobby and one the oldest ecumenical lobby organizations in the United States. From there, she attended Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1993 with a Master of Theological Studies. During her graduate program, she studied for a semester at the School of Divinity at Howard University.
Following graduate school, Kelley served at the Catholic Campaign for Human Development for nearly a decade. CCHD, a national Catholic anti-poverty initiative, is one of the largest private funders of community organizing and economic development projects led by low-income people; funds are raised by Catholic parishes annually. During her tenure at CCHD, Kelley co-edited Living the Catholic Social Tradition: Cases and Commentary with Dr. Kathleen Maas Weigert of Georgetown University. The book profiles community organizing projects across the country that had received support from CCHD, and it explores the principles of the Catholic social tradition that undergird support and participation in such projects.
Kelly de Almeida Afonso (born March 3, 1983 in Rio de Janeiro), better known as Kelly Key, is a Brazilian pop singer. Key has had great success with the LGBT people in Brazil, and she supports same-sex marriage in the country. In the span of a ten year career, Kelly has sold 2 million albums.
Of Portuguese descent, Key released her first, self-titled album in 2001 at the age of 17. Her first single was the song "Escondido" ("Hidden") in which she sang the suggestive lyics 'We went out to make out and to make love'. The song received lots of airplay thanks to her then-boyfriend, Brazilian pop singer Latino, who she would later marry and divorce, and the risqué lyrics.
Her big breakthrough was the song "Baba" ("Drool") which was one of the biggest hits in the country during 2001. In the controversial song and music video, Kelly provokes an older man that ignored her when she was young and infatuated with him, but now that she's older, is sexually attracted to her. Thanks to the success of the song, the album went double platinum in Brazil and selling 500.000 copies sold. The and was released to international markets in Portugal and Chile. Furthermore, Key's first two singles comprised highly explicit sexual content; although, the albums appealed predominantly to minors. The album would later tender two more successful singles: Cachorrinho ("Little Dog"), about a petulant man and his eventual apprehension of the reality of his relationship with his female boss, and "Anjo" ("Angel"), a sad ballad. Both songs received major airplay and were big radio hits.
Alexia Khadime (Born 9 June 1984, North West London, England) is an English actress and mezzo-soprano, known for her roles in British musical theatre and television. Alexia's break came in 2004 when she was cast as Nala in the British rendition of the musical The Lion King at Lyceum Theatre, London. Khadime had been part of the ensemble and had been previously an understudy for Nala in 2001. Alexia is best known for playing the role of "Elphaba" in the West End production of Wicked.
Khadime's most high profile role was as the lead "Elphaba" in the London production of Wicked. She permanently took over the role from Kerry Ellis on 11 May 2009, having previous filled in from June to November 2008 whilst Ellis played the role on Broadway. Khadime was the first black woman to be cast in the role full time. Alexia and Dianne Pilkington, who played "Glinda", were honored as Women of The Future at the annual Woman of the Future Awards in 2009 and the musical, in partnership with Westfield London, set a new Guinness World Record for the world's largest Halloween gathering as part of its annual 'Wicked Day' celebrations. The production also won awards including the Whatsonstage Award for Best West End Show (2009), and an Olivier Audience Award for Most Popular Show (2010) which was announced on 21 March 2010. Entertainment Weekly has also named it "The Best Musical of the Decade". Alexia left the production on 27 March 2010 and was succeeded by Rachel Tucker.
Ana Carolina da Fonseca (born October 25, 1978) is a Brazilian-American actress, television personality and model.
She was born in São Paulo, Brazil to Portuguese parents. She moved to the United States at age 12.
She is fluent in Spanish and English, as well as her native Portuguese.
Da Fonseca has made numerous television appearances as herself, including as the model and presenter on the television series El Blablazo and its spin-offs, which aired on the broadcast-television network Univision from 1998 to 2001. She also appeared as Celeste in the telenovela Te Amaré en Silencio (2003) opposite Eduardo Yáñez. In 2010, she had a supporting role in the telenovela Eva Luna.
Kelly Best (born 26 September 1986) is a beauty queen from Troy, Michigan who competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2007.
Best won the Miss Michigan USA 2007 title in a state pageant held in Port Huron, Michigan on 21 October 2006. It was her first attempt at the title, although she had placed fourth runner-up in the Miss Michigan Teen USA 2004 competition and was a semi-finalist in the 2002 event.
Best competed in the Miss USA 2007 pageant broadcast live from the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California on March 23, 2007 and placed in the top 15. Her "sister" titleholder is Caitlin Klug of Eau Claire, Miss Michigan Teen USA 2007.
She will represent the United States in Miss International 2008, in Macau, in November.
Best was crowned by outgoing titleholder Danelle Gay of Lapeer. Both Best and Gay attended Lapeer West High School. Gay graduated in 1999, and Best in 2004. Best is now a business communication student at Michigan State University and hopes to become a motivational speaker.