John Elliott and Luella May Welcome You to the Thirty Ninth Edition of
Women of Courage
Each week we will honor a woman that has truly made a difference by her contributions, courage, love, and selflessness. Women honored will be chosen from inside AdlandPro, outside AdlandPro, living in the present, and yes, we will not forget those heroines that paved the way for the freedoms we now enjoy. We will honor women who have shown tremendous courage and fortitude against all odds.
Assisting us in coordinating these awards are four outstanding ladies who are Women of Courage in their own right.
Presenting:
Carla Cash
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Pauline Raina http://community.adlandpro.com/go/301079/default.aspx
Geketa Holman http://community.adlandpro.com/go/313726/default.aspx
Terry Gorley
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Branka Babic http://community.adlandpro.com/go/EloElu/default.aspx
Our Sweethearts of Courage
Shirley Caron http://community.adlandpro.com/go/scaronpoet2005/default.aspx
Michael Caron http://community.adlandpro.com/go/192260/default.aspx
WE PRESENT TO YOU OUR THIRTY NINTH
WOMAN OF COURAGE
Jill Carroll
Jill Carroll, a staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor, was working in Baghdad as a freelance reporter for the Monitor when she was abducted on January 7, 2006. Carroll was kidnapped about 100 yards from the office of Adnan al-Dulaimi, a prominent Sunni politician. She had scheduled an interview with him but started to leave after an aide told her he was unavailable. Upon driving away, a large truck blocked the path. Armed men surrounded the car, and Carroll was shoved and kidnapped. After an 82-day ordeal, she was released March 30 and returned to the U.S. April 2.
Carroll, 28, was attacked along with a driver – Adnan Abbas – and an interpreter. The interpreter, Iraqi Alan Enwiya, was killed in the attack. Carroll wrote an account of her kidnapping and subsequent captivity, which was published in an 11-part series in The Christian Science Monitor in August.
Carroll is a Michigan native who attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; she graduated in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. After college, Carroll worked as a reporting assistant at The Wall Street Journal until August 2002. She then moved to Jordan where she reported for the English-language daily newspaper The Jordan Times in Amman.
A few months after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Carroll moved to Iraq to pursue a freelance career as a Middle East correspondent. As a freelance journalist, she worked for news outlets such as the Italian news agency ANSA, USA Today and US News & World Report.
Despite the risk, Carroll’s assignments included reporting in the Anbar desert while embedded with U.S. Marines and chronicling the evolution of an Iraqi town from a haven for insurgents to a place laden with tension between townspeople and marines. On more than one occasion, Carroll awoke to the sound of bombs in Baghdad, but her tenacity led her to take time to talk to the people whose lives were forever changed by these blasts. For instance, she began reporting on one story about car bombs 17 months before it was published, returning every month or two to continue to tell the story of a family whose three-year-old daughter was paralyzed by a bomb.
During the fall 2006 academic semester, Carroll is taking a leave of absence from the Monitor to be one of four fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. She will research the decline of foreign bureaus in the newspaper industry.
Carroll was born October 6, 1977 in Detroit, Michigan.