Wanda McDaniel
Wanda McDaniel has worked for the past 16 years as the LA-based executive vice president of global communications for the Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani, concentrating her work in the worlds of film, television, sports and music. She migrated to LA from Dallas, where she worked as a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald and created the magazine Ultra, which continues its three decades of success for the Dallas Morning News. In 1977, she joined the Los Angeles Herald Examiner as a columnist, covering everything from Hollywood to politics. Ms. McDaniel has written for Vanity Fair, Time magazine, Texas Monthly, Los Angeles Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. She is a former president of the Rodeo Drive Committee and now is president of the First Lady’s Remarkable Women’s Fund. She is mother of two New York University students and wife of Albert Ruddy, a film/TV producer.
California IQ
In the terrible winter of 1846, a group of California immigrants became stranded on a Sierra mountain pass --- and became part of the lore of the state. What was this group known as?
