Each month, Sophie iborra meets a woman of conviction. In this episode: Muriel Pénicaud, company administrator, photographer and former minister, is interviewed, extract from the article published on La Tribune Dimanche :
Plural" is probably the adjective that best defines both the career and the personality of this former minister, executive, activist, feminist and artist. For forty years, Muriel Pénicaud has traveled from one world to another, building bridges between seemingly opposing worlds. With a vital need to come to terms with reality, while at the same time asserting her artistic sensibility, she's no stranger to paradox. "My yin side is poetry and contemplation, and my yang side is transformation through action, concreteness and solutions.
At the age of 10, when she saw herself as an orchestra conductor in an editorial office, her French teacher punished her vivid imagination. Irrelevant! Women can't do that job. Move along, there's nothing to see or dream about. That day, young Muriel made a promise to herself, never to let her choices be imposed on her. So, when she decided to emancipate herself from her bourgeois milieu, it was to embark on a career in the service of her obsession: social justice. "My accomplishment is to be able to work together to change the lives of those who need it most"...
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