Episode 1463
Melinda Gates
Wed, 2021-May-05 00:57 UTC
Length - 1:29
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With 466,756 views on Tuesday, 4 May 2021 our article of the day is Melinda Gates.
Melinda Ann Gates (née French; born August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist and a former general manager at Microsoft. In 2000, she and her husband Bill Gates co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable organization as of 2015. Through the foundation, she led an early 21st century vaccination campaign which significantly contributed to the eradication of the poliovirus in Africa. Gates has consistently been ranked as one of the world's most powerful women by Forbes.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:57 UTC on Wednesday, 5 May 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see Melinda Gates on Wikipedia.
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