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Matt Haney is an American elected official in San Francisco, California. He serves as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 6.

District 6 includes the neighborhoods of South of Market, the Tenderloin, Mission Bay, Rincon Hill, Yerba Buena, South Beach, Mid-Market, Civic Center, and Treasure Island.

Early life and education
Haney was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. His mother taught at San Francisco State University and has since worked on children's health care issues, and his father is a national advocate of prisoners rights. Haney's older sister is a public defender and advocate.

Haney attended public schools before earning a bachelor's degree in Urban Development from the University of California, Berkeley. He went on to study at Stanford University, where he received a master's from the School of Education and a JD from Stanford Law School. He also earned a LLM in human rights from the National University of Ireland, where he was a Senator George Mitchell Scholar.

Early career
Haney worked at both the Stanford Design School and at the JFK School of Law, and Sociology at Palo Alto University, where he taught education law. He was executive director of the UC Student Association, representing 200,000 students across the state. Haney also served as the national political director for the Dream Corps, a "social justice accelerator," where he advocated for rehabilitation initiatives as an alternative to incarceration. In 2015, along with Mill Valley mayor Jessica Jackson Sloan and former Barack Obama adviser Van Jones, he founded #cut50, an Oakland-based national nonprofit aiming to find bipartisan solutions to end mass incarceration. #cut50 was the lead proponent of the First Step Act, which became law on December 21, 2018.

Board of Education
Haney was elected to the San Francisco Board of Education in 2012, and won re-election in 2016. He is the only local San Francisco elected official to be endorsed by Barack Obama, who endorsed Haney during his second elect

endorsed by Barack Obama during his second reelection race, the only SF Barack Obama endorsed his second reelection race, making him the only local San Francisco elected official

During his tenure, he served as president and vice-president. Haney supported several housing initiatives during his time on the school board, including protecting teachers from evictions during the school year, building affordable housing for teachers, and expanding services for homeless students, including securing housing for them. He also worked to open a new school in the Mission Bay neighborhood and to expand students' access to technology.

Board of Supervisors
Haney was elected supervisor for District 6 on November 6, 2018, receiving 14,249 first preference votes (56.24 percent of all valid votes). After allocation of preferences from eliminated candidates in San Francisco's ranked-choice voting system, Haney received 63.12 percent of final-round votes, compared to 36.88 percent for runner-up Christine Johnson, a former planning commissioner.

Haney was sworn in at the Board of Supervisors' meeting on January 8, 2019 meeting, replacing Jane Kim, who was ineligible to run for re-election after two four-year terms. Haney

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ARTICLE: Barbie (film series) under "Origins"

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Barbie’s popularity on the toy market begin to decline in the 1990s, and struggled further when MGA Entertainment introduced a line of Brats dolls, whose sexualized characters contrasted with Barbie’s older, chaste image. Mattel therefore attempted to overhaul the Barbie brand to keep the toy relevant to consumers in the modern age by bringing in consultants and conducting research on key market groups. Mattel consultants initially considered reducing the Barbie’s breast size, but later claimed that the doll’s figure could not be changed because “being consistent is one of her biggest strengths.” This move might also have been rejected because of the success of the sexualized Bratz dolls of Mattel’s competitors. Mattel's team also considered targeting market audiences of career women and their daughters by introducing lines of Doctor or Lawyer Barbies. However, Mattel’s research showed that girls were spending more time online than playing with physical dolls. Therefore, targeted career Barbies were discarded in favor of looking for more interactive platforms through online or digital media.

This resulted in the creation of the Barbie film series, which initially revolved around Barbie being reimagined a princess and eventually expanded into various worlds of fashion and fantasy. A primary benefit of this strategy revolved around marketing, as Mattel could sell dolls specific to each film separately from the DVDs and merchandise related to props, costumes, and sets from the films. Tim Kilpin, the senior vice-president for girls marketing at Mattel, stated that “What you see now are several different Barbie worlds anchored by content and storytelling. A girl can understand what role Barbie is playing, what the other characters are doing, and how they interrelate. That’s a much richer level of story that leads to a richer level of play.” The strategy worked: US Barbie sales, led by the princess line, "increased by two percent in 2006, saving Mattel’s bottom line at a time when its worldwide share of the toy market was declining." Within the films, Mattel includes performances by well-known companies and orchestras, such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic and the New York City Ballet. These associations could have been included as an enrichment strategy on behalf of Mattel’s marketing team, to help the films be seen as educational.

The Barbie films and their plot lines center on Barbie as a singular CGI actress, and often frame Barbie as a modern girl telling the story to a younger friend while simultaneously starring in the film. Scholars examining how the Barbie films differ from Disney and other princess narratives have concluded that Mattel intentionally attempted to remediate its brand based on feminist criticisms through story-telling in the films. Barbie is always placed as the central heroine of the story, with male characters and romantic interests serving as secondary to the plot. In a 2009 press release, Mattel noted that although Barbie "likes wearing wedding gowns," she has "never been married." This may be incorrect, as the 2004 film Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper ends with a double wedding between Barbie as Princess Anneliese, pauper Erika, and their respective partners.