Levan Beridze is a Georgian diplomat who currently serves as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Hellenic Republic and the Republic of Serbia. He assumed his position as ambassador to Greece in June 2024, and was accredited to Serbia through a credential presentation ceremony in July 2025.
Lisa M. Gillmor is an American politician, businesswoman, and real estate broker serving as the mayor of Santa Clara, California. She has held positions on the city council and as vice mayor before her appointment and subsequent election as mayor. Gillmor is known for her advocacy on issues including real estate development, local governance, and community outreach.
Los Castillo was a Mexican silver, jewelry, and decorative-arts workshop founded in Taxco, Guerrero, in 1939. It was established by the silversmith Antonio Castillo with his three brothers, his wife Margot van Voorhies Carr, and his first cousin Salvador Terán. The Castillo brothers had trained at William Spratling's Taller de Las Delicias and became part of the first generation of independent workshop proprietors associated with the Taxco school of silver design. All four brothers received a full commercial and technical training at Las Delicias, where Miguel Castillo later served as a general administrator responsible for the more than 400 artisans employed there during the Second World War.
Los Castillo produced jewelry, flatware, hollowware, furniture, architectural decoration, and decorative objects. The workshop became particularly known for experimentation with mixed metals, stone and shell mosaic, silver applied to wood, enamel, and pluma azteca, a technique incorporating colored feathers behind pierced metal. Its work combined pre-Columbian imagery, Mexican flora and fauna, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and later modernist abstraction.
During the Second World War, Los Castillo expanded to employ more than 300 workers and produced identification bracelets and chains for American military personnel. The large workshop contracted following labor disputes and changing economic conditions in the late 1950s, but Los Castillo continued on a reduced basis until 1995.
Kenneth Begay (1913–1977) was a Diné (Navajo) silversmith and jewelry designer associated with the development of modernist Native American jewelry in the mid-20th century. Working primarily in Arizona, Begay became known for restrained, precisely fabricated silver jewelry that differed from the heavily stamped and stone-set work commonly produced for the Southwestern tourist trade. Begay has been described as the "father of contemporary Navajo jewelry".