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Though systemic change is still needed, Hall said, the casting of Santana “sends an important signal … that our state is proud to feature an African American woman as a representative, an ambassadress, for our state.”

Even without that, an online search could have filled in UN’s outreach officials on growing opposition to sexist depictions of women in comics, to a point that might contraindicate a comic-book ambassadress for women.

Tellingly, she is pictured on both the front and back covers of the Playbill for “Eclipsed,” first as the play’s plaintive-looking headliner, then as an “ambassadress” for Lancôme, blissfully clutching a bottle of Advanced Génifique.

One was a friend of my mother’s who was an ambassadress.

But, by the time she won the Academy Award, becoming the first Kenyan actress to do so, she had already become a red-carpet darling; Lancôme quickly snapped her up as their ambassadress.