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- Strikingly tall (5' 10"), buxom, and shapely brunette knockout Jennifer LeRoy was born on January 7, 1974 in Craig, Colorado. She's the sister of Olympic skier Andy LeRoy. LeRoy grew up in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. An accomplished downhill skier, she regularly skied the slopes of the Snowbird ski resort in Utah as a kid. At age sixteen she left Colorado for New York City and became a successful print and runway model who worked all over Asia and Europe. LeRoy was the Playmate of the Month in the February, 1993 issue of "Playboy." Moreover, she not only appeared in many "Playboy" videos and posed for a bunch of newsstand special editions, but was also featured in various episodes of the comedy TV series "Playboy's Really Naked Truth."
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Vera Starbard is a three-time Emmy-nominee writer. She is Tlingit and Dena'ina (Alaska Native) and was born on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska to Don and Linda Starbard. Vera was given the Tlingit name of T'set Kwei and is of the Leeneidi clan. She has two sisters, Karla and Miranda Starbard, and a brother, Nathan Starbard, and was raised all over Alaska following her father's position as an Alaska State Trooper.
Vera graduated from East Anchorage High School in 2000, where she served as Editor in Chief of the school newspaper, and first began professionally writing and editing at age 18 for the Sagebrush Newspaper in Reno, Nevada. She married Joe Bedard in Anchorage, Alaska, and they now live on Douglas Island in Southeast Alaska.
In 2017 Vera became a writer for the PBS Kids animated series "Molly of Denali," and the series premiered in 2019. It won a Peabody award in 2020 for its first season, and was nominated for two awards at the inaugural Children's and Family Emmys in 2022, and two Emmy awards in 2023. Vera was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Preschool Animated Series for her writing on the show in 2022 and 2023, and nominated under Short Form Program as Co-Head Writer of "The Big Gathering" shorts in 2023.
She began as a staff writer for the ABC show "Alaska Daily" in 2022 and wrote the series finale episode. She also continues to write for "Molly of Denali" and the Disney Junior animated series "SuperKitties."
Vera was playwright in residence at Perseverance Theatre through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation National Playwright Residency Program. Her play "Our Voices Will Be Heard" premiered in 2016, and was published in the textbook "Contemporary Plays by Women of Color, Second Edition" in 2017. In 2018 it was adapted into a one-hour radio play, released nationally by Native Voice One.
Vera was Editor of First Alaskans Magazine for a decade, and is the recipient of numerous writing and editing awards, including the Alaska Literary Award, Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award, and the Alaska Governor's Awards for the Arts.