As two of the youngest heads of government and among a small percentage of female world leaders, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin have long faced questions about their age and gender.
But they were quick to shoot down a journalist who asked about the purpose of the first-ever visit to New Zealand by a Finnish prime minister on Wednesday.
“A lot of people will be wondering are you two meeting just because you’re similar in age and, you know, got a lot of common stuff there,” the journalist said during a joint news conference in Auckland.
Ardern, 42, was quick to cut off the questioner.
“I wonder whether or not anyone ever asked Barack Obama and John Key if they met because they were of similar age,” she said, in reference to the former prime ministers of the United States and New Zealand.
“We, of course, have a higher proportion of men in politics, it’s reality. Because two women meet it’s not simply because of their gender.”
Marin, 37, who is in New Zealand with a Finnish trade delegation, emphasized the country’s growing trade ties.
“We are meeting because we are prime ministers,” she said in response.
She ends her visit to the southern hemisphere in Australia later this week.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin hit back after a male reporter suggested they were meeting only because they were a similar age — a question that quickly drew accusations of “casual sexism” in the media against younger, female world leaders.
The two held a news conference in Auckland, New Zealand, on Wednesday after their first face-to-face meeting — which Ardern described as a “historic occasion” marking the country’s first visit from a Finnish prime minister.
The two said they had discussed their countries’ responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and their concerns about a crackdown on protesters in Iran. They highlighted their countries’ shared values, including “multilateralism and a rules-based international order,” Ardern said, while Marin noted that “Finland and New Zealand count among the oldest democracies in the world.”
But a reporter zoomed in on what he seemed to think was the most important thing Ardern, 42, and Marin, 37, have in common. “A lot of people will be wondering: ‘Are you two meeting just because you’re similar in age and have got a lot of common stuff there — when you got into politics and stuff — or can Kiwis actually expect to see more deals between our two countries down the line?” the reporter from New Zealand radio station Newstalk ZB asked.
Ardern, looking slightly incredulous, replied: “I wonder whether or not anyone ever asked Barack Obama and John Key if they met because they were of similar age,” referring to New Zealand’s former prime minister who was born five days after the former U.S. president.
“We of course have a higher proportion of men in politics, it’s reality. Because two women meet, it’s not simply because of their gender,” Ardern said. Shen then described the trade relations and economic opportunities between the two countries, adding: “It’s our job to further it, regardless of our gender.”
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Meanwhile, Marin said with a laugh: “We are meeting because we are prime ministers, of course … we have a lot of things in common, but also a lot of things where we can do much more together.” She added that, in particular, she wanted to reduce her country’s dependence on “authoritarian countries” when it came to technology and natural resources.
The question about age and gender drew criticism in local media outlets, where it was described as “not-so-subtle sexism” and “casual sexism.” The Guardian, meanwhile, soon put together a video titled: “The many times Jacinda Ardern has faced sexist questions from reporters.”
Both leaders have dealt with an inordinate amount of questioning focused on their age and gender in the past.
When Ardern became prime minister in 2017, reporters focused their questioning on whether she intended to have children or take maternity leave. After her pregnancy was announced in 2018, a reporter also focused on her appearance and asked when her baby was conceived — a line of questioning viewers criticized as “creepy.”
Women are dancing in solidarity with Finnish PM Sanna Marin
Meanwhile, Marin was heavily criticized by political opponents after videos emerged of the Finnish leader partying with her friends at a private event. Critics described her as unprofessional — even as others rallied to support her and likened it to older male politicians playing golf.
Women remain underrepresented in politics, with just 28 countries represented by elected female leaders, according to U.N. Women figures from September. “At the current rate, gender equality in the highest positions of power will not be reached for another 130 years,” the U.N. organization added.
In what could be a sign of the rarity of seeing two female world leaders together onstage, many of the other reporters’ questions at Wednesday’s news conference also focused on Ardern and Marin’s gender.
Reporters asked whether they had considered how to be role models for other women, whether young female leaders had to work harder to avoid criticism of their personal lives, and how Marin felt about being described as Finland’s “party prime minister” in the New Zealand press.
“It’s very good that we have free media, that we have the critical sight on politicians,” Marin said. However, she added, “I also want to show an example, that different kinds of people can be politicians. … I think it’s very important that we can also show the youngest of generations that you can be yourself and still engage in politics.”
Women are busting out their moves on social media to show support for Finland’s prime minister, Sanna Marin — and to remind the world that politicians are people, too.
Political opponents berated Marin, 36, last week after videos surfaced of the Finnish leader partying with her friends at a private event. They called her decision to party during the country’s economic crisis unprofessional and irresponsible. Some critics also suggested that Marin was abusing substances and demanded she take a drug test to prove otherwise. (The prime minister agreed to a drug test, which came back negative, BBC News reported.)
Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin responded on Aug. 18 to criticism she faced after private leaked videos showed her at a party with friends. (Video: Reuters)
Video of Finnish prime minister partying sparks outrage — and applause
But many women have rushed to the dance floor and posted videos on social media tagged with #SolidarityWithSanna to call out what they see as unfair, sexist treatment of Marin. They argue that the criticism she’s faced has been unjustifiably doled out because she’s a young woman in a sphere dominated by older men. And the clips have been viewed more than 100,000 times on TikTok alone.
When Rikke Dal Stottrup and her staff at the popular Danish women’s magazine Alt for Damerne heard the news, they had a sense of deja vu.
They recalled that tall, blond Helle Thorning-Schmidt — Denmark’s prime minister from 2011 to 2015 — was constantly bashed for what she wore when she held office.
“It seems like certain people still today have a hard time comprehending the fact that you can be both a young woman … and a competent politician at the same time,” Stottrup said.
Amid last week’s controversy, employees at Alt for Damerne, which translates to “Everything for the ladies,” scoured their devices for their own dance clips. Then, they posted the videos on the magazine’s official account, with a caption thattranslates to “In solidarity with Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin … we at Alt for Damerne editorial office emptied the camera roll for clips that never … should have seen the light of day.”
“We wanted to emphasize the fact that you can be a great prime minister, CEO, editor, nurse — insert job title — and hit the dance floor on weekends, too,” Stottrup said. “If we want to have more diversity … we have to expand our view on what a politician can look like. We have to accept the whole package and not just what we historically have been used to.”
Melani McAlister, a professor of American studies and international affairs at George Washington University, said the backlash against Marin reminded her of how Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was chided in 2019 when a video resurfaced of her dancing in college. (Ocasio-Cortez responded with a new video of her dancing in front of her office.)
“Someone thought that this could become an issue even though it’s clearly a tempest in a teapot,” McAlister said of Ocasio-Cortez’s viral clip. “The fact that she’s female, the fact that she’s young, and … the fact that she’s a minority positions her to have to be securely upright to deserve or to be seen to deserve her position of power.”
McAlister said that although critics demand a higher standard from young women and others who areunderrepresented in politics, Marin’s partying isn’t anything out of the ordinary and is socially comparable to how older male politicians golf. As more young adults take up government positions, she said, constituents will have to adapt to what the age group does outside of work.
“As long as [Marin] manages to continue to call this out for what it is, then good for her,” McAlister said. “She’s not letting it get more traction than it should have.”
Vitriol from Finnish rivals of Marin may seem contrary to the reputation of the Scandinavian country, which has often been considered one of the top industrialized nations for gender equity, said Eiko Strader, a GWU sociologist and assistant professor. But country rankings do not tell the whole story.
“Finland seems to be doing much better than other countries, but if you look at labor market indicators like earnings and managerial representation, Finnish women still lag behind Finnish men, because social and cultural norms that cannot be captured through standardized measures shape our everyday lives,” Strader said in an email.
Stottrup said that although sexistattacks lobbed at female politicians are likely to persist around the world, supporters will continue to band together.
As she put it:“We probably still have some decades ahead before we won’t see any more of these cases, but the Sanna Marins of the world should know that we’re right behind them. Dancing.”
The video clips, which appeared last week, showed the 36-year-old leader dancing with friends in a private setting.
Some political opponents condemned Marin’s behavior in the videos as inappropriate for a Prime Minister.
Women have been responding to this criticism by tweeting clips of themselves dancing, using the hashtag #solidaritywithsanna.
“The sky is the limit for Dancing Queens,” one user tweeted.
“We should all dance a little more! I stand in solidarity with Sanna,” another user posted.
“Let’s dance for each other,” another said.
Others have defended Marin and accused her critics of applying a double standard.
“Why can’t she party after work? Do we expect our leaders not to be human beings?” tweeted Ashok Swain, a professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden.
“How shocking!!! A young politician who does her job and enjoys her private life… Why can’t a young woman have fun? I can’t stand gender double standards,” Spanish politician Iratxe García Pérez tweeted. “All my support to @MarinSanna.”
After the release of the videos, Marin acknowledged partying “in a boisterous way” but said she was angry that the footage was leaked to the media.
On Thursday, she said alcohol was consumed but that she was not aware of any drug use at the party.
The following day, she said she had taken a drug test, after Mikko Karna, an opposition MP, called on her to do so.
For those who play video games, 2007 is often considered one of the best years of the medium. It was a year of bangers: Microsoft had Crackdown and Halo 3, Nintendo took Super Mario to the Galaxy, Call of Duty blew the world open by going modern, and so on. It cannot be understated how much that year just kicked ass for games, and in the upper echelon at the time was 2K Games’ Bioshock, which is now 15 years old as of today.
Developed by 2K Boston (later Irrational Games) and the now defunct 2K Australia, and directed and written by Boston’s Ken Levine, BioShock is a first-person shooter set in the 1960s. After surviving a plane crash, the protagonist Jack discovers the underwater city of Rapture, built as a haven for the elites of society by its creator, business magnate Andrew Ryan. The city was the perfect utopia, but everything eventually went to hell once a gene-altering substance called ADAM was discovered.
Through the use of serums known as “Plasmids,” everyone in the city got superpowers. Thus, a class war ensued: on one side, Ryan commanded his superhuman, diving suit-wearing Big Daddies to protect young girls called Little Sisters as they harvested ADAM from dead bodies. And on the opposing side was Atlas, a man who convinced the now poor citizens of Rapture to rise up against Ryan, with both sides using Plasmid-wielding citizens dubbed Splicers to wage skirmishes across the city.
Image: Irrational Games/2K
Originally an Xbox 360 and Windows exclusive, BioShock released to critical acclaim, with particular praise for its atmosphere and narrative, which incorporated ideas from author George Orwell and most notably philosopher Ayn Rand. By the end of its debut month, it sold 490,000 copies, and by March 2010, it’d had sold 4 million across all systems. (In 2008 and 2009, it was ported respectively to the PlayStation 3 and Mac.)
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For a time, BioShock fever swept across the industry. It was inducted into the Smithsonian’s exhibit devoted to the art of video games, and has been hailed as one of the best games of all time. Along with the original Mass Effect and 2008’s Braid, the game’s been used as examples when arguing the merit of video games as an art form. And it spawned two sequels: 2010’s BioShock 2 from 2K Marin was a direct sequel wherein players controlled a Big Daddy named Sigma a decade after the original game, granted the ability to use Plasmids and search for his missing Little Sister. Conversely, Infinite by the returning Irrational starred private eye Booker DeWitt endeavored to ferry the reality-warping Elizabeth Comstock out of the sky city of Columbia in 1912. Both games would receive narrative DLC, but it was the “Burial at Sea” expansion for Infinite that definitively linked it with the story of the original game.
In the years since BioShock went quiet, there’ve been efforts outside of 2K and Levine to try and go for the same narrative highs of that first game. You can see its bones in other games like Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us, Machine Games’ Wolfenstein reboot, and Arkane’s Prey or Dishonored without much effort. (Infinite is technically the first Dad Game, as it released only a handful of months before the original Last of Us.) Cyberpunk 2077, which arguably features better combat and immersive sim elements than BioShock, has a slice of the period piece shooter inside of it. You could probably even argue that something like Disco Elysium or Citizen Sleeper has also been influenced by it.
Image: 2K Games
But for the franchise itself, it currently just…exists. Part of the issue is a lack of a follow up: a fourth entry is said to be in the works, but due to development issues that just plague the entire franchise, it feels more of an idea than reality. And though he left the series behind after 2013, Ken Levine hasn’t been able to release a game within the past nine years. All fans have been left to do is replay the old games, maybe discuss how time has treated the sequels in particular. Netflix has plans on making the first game into a film, something originally in the cards back in 2008, but it remains to be seen if the streamer will actually be able to make that a reality. But the real question about BioShock’s future, if it even has one, is what can it still bring to the table that the original trilogy didn’t already cover?
Let us know your thoughts on the BioShock franchise in the comments below. Think we could do with another entry, or should we kindly let it be harvested?
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Under scrutiny after videos of her dancing with a pop star went viral, Finland’s prime minister said she’s taken a drug test.
Sanna Marin, 36, said at a press conference that she expects the results of the screening to be released next week, the BBC reported. Finnish politicians had called for her to be tested for narcotics after the video was leaked.
However, Marin has said repeatedly that she has never taken drugs.
Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin insists she only parties on days when there are no government meetings.Twitter
Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin reportedly danced with an unknown man who’s not her husband.Twitter
“I did nothing illegal,” she told reporters in Helsinki Friday.
“Even in my teenage years, I have not used any kind of drugs,” Marin said. She explained that she took the drug test because of the controversy over the videos, but felt the outcry was unjust.
But reporters grilled Marin, who’s married and been the Finnish PM since Dec. 2019, asking if she could make important government decisions if something happened while she was out partying.
“I don’t remember a single time that there was a sudden situation in the middle of the night to go to the State Council Palace,” she said.
“I think my ability to function was really good. There were no known meetings on the days I was partying.”
Marin said she knew she was being filmed while dancing but didn’t realize the footage would go public.
Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin confirmed she took a drug test after leaked videos showed her partying.RONI REKOMAA/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty ImagesFinland Prime Minister Sanna Marin defended her partying habits.SAARA PELTOLA/LEHTIKUVA/AFP via Getty Images
“I trust that people understand that leisure time and work time can be separated,” she said.
Germany’s Bild newspaper named Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin the “coolest politician in the world” last week, calling the 36-year-old leader “casual, modern and self-confident” as she navigates the threat from Russia — and also attends music festivals with her friends.
But now that reputation appears to have landed her in hot water after footage of Marin partying at a private event was leaked online.
In a series of clips posted to Instagram, which emerged on Wednesday, Marin and other partygoers are shown bopping along to Finnish pop music — and when the beat drops, they break out into dance.
The room is coated in the purple haze of neon party lights, which illuminate Marin as she hugs friends, kneels on the floor and sings along to songs.
As the videos circulated online this week, some critics called her behavior childish, while others accused her of not staying focused on Finland’s cost-of-living crisis.
But many others paused and asked: What’s all the fuss? Analysts say that Marin’s age and gender — and the intersection between the two — make her a particular target for criticism in a world led mostly by older men.
“I have a family life, I have a work life and I have free time to spend with my friends. Pretty much the same as many people my age,” Marin said Thursday, the BBC reported.
She said the videos were private and filmed in a private space. “I resent that these became known to the public,” Reuters quoted her as saying.
It wasn’t the first time Marin, a member of Finland’s Social Democratic Party, has been “caught” partying. In December, she apologized for another incident in which she stayed out at a Helsinki nightclub until 4 a.m. without her cellphone. While she was out, an alert was sent to Marin’s phone to let her know she was a close contact of someone who tested positive for the coronavirus. (She did not end up contracting it.)
Finland’s prime minister apologizes after partying all night despite coronavirus exposure
Her political rivals seized on the new videos this week, calling on Marin to undergo voluntary drug screenings. “The people are also allowed to expect this from their prime minister,” said Mikko Karna, a member of Parliament from the Center party.
Marin fired back, telling local outlet Yle that she was willing to take a drug test. “I have not used drugs myself, or anything other than alcohol. I’ve danced, sung and partied and done perfectly legal things,” she added.
An editorial in Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat newspaper argued that her partying was a security risk.
“The prime minister can, in a sensitive situation, put the weapons of information warfare in the hands of those who would like to hurt Finland,” the editorial said. “There may be more leaks. If not now, then at the next party.”
Marin was the world’s youngest sitting national leader when she was elected in 2019 at age 34. Her victory placed her in a small but powerful group of presidents and prime ministers who were elected in their 30s, including New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele.
As Finnish prime minister, Marin succeeded Antti Rinne, who was born in 1962; and before him, Juha Sipilä, who was born in 1961. Marin was born more than two decades later, in 1985.
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Marin’s position in the executive office alone “disrupts what people have historically been comfortable with in terms of age and gender (older men),” Sara Angevine, a political scientist at Whittier College, said in an email.
Bettina Spencer, a professor at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, In., said that young women leaders are scrutinized more harshly than their older male counterparts.
“Young leaders are not taken seriously based on stereotypes about age. Women leaders are not taken seriously based on stereotypes about gender. Young women leaders are especially not taken seriously because of the intersection of their age and gender,” Spencer said.
“As such, they receive harsher scrutiny for any behaviors that reinforce the belief that they may not be ‘serious,’ and that includes simply dancing with friends at a private event,” she said.
But not everyone was critical of Marin for letting loose — and instead applauded what they said was the prime minister “proving when you work hard, you can play hard.”
Someone else on Twitter asked: “is Sanna Marin the only chief executive on earth to have documented friends.”
Videos showed Marin, Finland’s 36-year-old leader, dancing with friends in a private setting.
“These videos are private and filmed in a private space. I resent that these became known to the public,” Marin told reporters in Kuopio, Finland.
“I spent a night with my friends. We just partied, also in a boisterous way. I danced and sang,” she said.
The footage shows Marin and five others posing towards a camera and dancing. Another clip appears to show Marin on the floor, singing toward the camera.
It had prompted some of Marin’s opponents to criticize her behavior as unbecoming of a prime minister. Mikko Karna, an opposition MP, tweeted that Marin should undergo a drug test.
Marin told reporters that alcohol was consumed but she was not aware of any drug use during the party.
Supporters meanwhile have defended her, and charged critics with applying a double standard.
“Why can’t she party after work? Do we expect our leaders not to be human beings?” tweeted Ashok Swain, a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Sweden’s Uppsala University.
Marin has denied the leaking of the videos was part of a blackmailing scheme. “I am not being blackmailed. These are private videos and they were not supposed to be public,” the prime minister said, adding that “they are filmed this summer and in a private home. I am not telling whose home it is.”
It’s not the first time that Marin’s private life has become politicized in Finland. She previously apologized to the public in 2021 after a photo surfaced of her in a nightclub, following Finland’s foreign minister testing positive for Covid-19.
“I did wrong. I should have considered the situation more carefully,” Marin said in a television interview by public broadcaster Yle at the time.
But she also said she is an “individual, a person, a real person also, even though I’m a prime minister. So, I won’t change the way I behave. Of course, I have to be careful what I say because it can be represented as the whole government, but I’m still a person and I will be in the future also.”
A teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, is traumatized after authorities initially said the gunman entered the building through a door she left ajar, her attorney said.
“She can’t stop shaking,” said Don Flanary, an attorney for teacher Emilia Marin.
The educator was helping a co-worker bring in food for a party when 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos arrived at the school in Uvalde, CNN reported.
Authorities first said Ramos entered the school through a door left ajar by Marin — but the Texas Department of Public Safety has since clarified that the gunman got in via an unlocked door.
“She felt alone, like she couldn’t even grieve,” Flanary told CNN of the incorrect initial account by authorities. “She second-guessed herself, like ‘Did I not do that?’”
Marin is having trouble dealing with the insinuation that her actions contributed to the massacre, Flanary told ABC News.
“It’s traumatic for her when it’s insinuated that she’s involved, the door open,” Marin’s attorney said. “She’s heartbroken.”
Marin took immediate actions to stop Ramos’ onslaught, Flanary insisted.
“She sees him throw a bag over the fence and he has the weapon, the gun, around his chest,” Flanary recalled. “He hops the fence and starts running at her.”
Authorities originally said that Texas shooter Salvador Ramos entered the school via a door that teacher Emilia Marin left ajar. APThe Texas Department of Public Safety later clarified that shooter Salvador Ramos entered through an unlocked door. AP
Marin then kicked away the rock that was keeping the door open and slammed the door, Flanary said.
“She thought she was going to die herself,” the attorney continued. “She was waiting for him to come in. Obviously, she’s heartbroken with all the lives lost.”
Marin had dashed inside to report the crash, leaving the door propped open with a rock, Flanary said. She then returned while still on the line with cops and saw a co-worker running out to safety and others across the street at a funeral home while yelling, “He’s got a gun!”
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The gunman never encountered Marin, or her grandson, who attends the school. But the horrifying attack has left the educator tormented and she had to seek a neurologist’s care, Flanary said.
The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed investigators determined the teacher had closed the door, but it failed to lock, ABC News reported.
Marin’s attorney told CNN the ensuing moments would have been the “most horrific thing anyone could have endured.”
Ramos started firing outside the school before making his way inside. While “frozen” in fear, Marin got a text message from her daughter asking if she was safe — but she silenced her phone, believing Ramos might hear the device, CNN reported.
“She thought he was going to come in and kill her and she made peace with that,” Flanary continued.
Ramos ultimately targeted another classroom packed with students, killing 19, along with two teachers, in the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade.
Flanary is helping Marin in a possible civil claim against Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the firearm used in the attack, CNN reported.
The petition doesn’t accuse the manufacturer of wrongdoing, but seeks to investigate whether Marin has legal grounds to file a claim against Daniel Defense, which did not reply to an inquiry from CNN, the network reported.
Marin does not plan on suing the school, the police or the school district, according to the report.
Her traumatic experience echoes those of other Uvalde survivors — like a third-grader who hid inside the school and prayed “so we don’t die” as an hour went by before cops killed Ramos.
Robb Elementary School teacher Emilia Marin’s lawyer Don Flanary says she is traumatized by the authorities’ claim. Getty ImagesEmilia Marin’s lawyer Don Flanary says she immediately kicked the rock out from under the door when she saw Salvador Ramos coming. Elsa G Ruiz/FacebookAn hour passed before police killed shooter Salvador Ramos. social media/AFP via Getty Image
Leon Hernandez, 9, told The Post Thursday he ducked beneath a desk with a female classmate as Ramos marched into the classroom and elsewhere throughout the building.
“She was praying and scared,” Leon said of his classmate. “I said we had to pray so we don’t die.”
Leon spoke to The Post Thursday outside a vigil for the victims in Uvalde. Funerals, visitations and burials for the 21 victims began on Monday and are expected to continue through mid-June.
The two people killed in a plane crash in the Marin Headlands on Friday were Sacramento residents, the Marin County coroner’s office said Monday.
Michael B. Briare, 57, and Jennifer Lyn Fox, 52, were flying in a fixed-wing single-engine Vans RV-10 personal aircraft. It went down in foggy conditions near Slackers Hill northwest of the Golden Gate Bridge.
The coroner’s office identified the pair over the weekend but did not release their names until family members could be notified about their deaths.
Photos of plane that crashed above Conzelman Road on Friday (5/6). https://t.co/pP1cCseDZQ pic.twitter.com/87vzXVJCI5
— Golden Gate NPS – Alerts (@GGNRANPSAlerts) May 7, 2022
The cause of the crash remains under federal investigation. Keith Holloway of the National Transportation Safety Board said a preliminary report on the crash would be available this week or next. A complete report might take up to a year to be released.
Briare was a senior vice president with Hub International, an insurance brokerage.
“Our team at Hub is devastated by the loss of Mike Briare,” said Rob McVicar, executive vice president for the Sacramento region. “Mike was a loving father, true friend and mentor to many.”
Fox was a mother to two children in the Sacramento area, according to Jesuit High School. Her son Max Diepenbrock is a sophomore at Jesuit High School, and her daughter Ava Diepenbrock is a senior at St. Francis High School.
According to Fox’s website, she was the founder of I AM Empowerment Studio, a consulting company, and a “virtual spa” called the I AM Studio.
