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Wallis Annenberg · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

Chair of the Annenberg Foundation, which has given more than $1bn; built the world's largest wildlife crossing over a Los Angeles freeway

When

15 July 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Wallis Annenberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Chair of the Annenberg Foundation, which has given more than $1bn; built the world's largest wildlife crossing over a Los Angeles freeway

How & why

Wallis Annenberg was born in Philadelphia in 1939 into a Jewish family, the daughter of the publisher and ambassador Walter Annenberg. She has chaired the Annenberg Foundation since 2009 and directed more than a billion dollars of its giving into Los Angeles: the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, the Annenberg Community Beach House, PetSpace, and the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over the 101 freeway — the largest wildlife bridge in the world, built so that mountain lions cut off by ten lanes of traffic can breed again.

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Source: Wikipedia — Wallis Annenberg

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Chair of the Annenberg Foundation, which has given more than $1bn; built the world's largest wildlife crossing over a Los Angeles freeway

2009

Source: Wikipedia — Wallis Annenberg