Chelsea Manning

@Whistleblower, Birthday and Family

Chelsea Manning is a former U.S Army Intelligence Officer who was charged with treason for the leaking top-secret documents to WikiLeaks

Dec 17, 1987

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: December 17, 1987
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Whistleblower, Transgenders, Activists
  • City/State: Oklahoma
  • Known as: Chelsea Elizabeth Manning
  • Universities:
    • Tasker-Milward V.C. School
    • Montgomery College
  • Birth Place: Crescent, Oklahoma

Chelsea Manning born at

Crescent, Oklahoma

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Birth Place

The day after her sentencing, on 22 August 2013, Chelsea Manning announced that she is a transgender.

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Personal Life

In April 2014, Manning was granted the right to be legally recognized as Chelsea Elizabeth Manning after filing a court petition.

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Personal Life

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning was born Bradley Edward Manning on 17 December 1987, in Crescent, Oklahoma to Susan Fox and Brian Manning. Her father served as an intelligence analyst in the United States Navy for five years.

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Childhood & Early Life

Manning has one older sister named Casey Manning who was born in 1976. Casey took care of her as a child because their mother was an alcoholic.

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Childhood & Early Life

Chelsea Manning’s parents divorced when she was 13 resulting in her moving out with her mother into a rented apartment in Crescent, Oklahoma. During this period, Chelsea’s mother attempted suicide but was saved after her sister drove them to a hospital in the nick of time.

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Childhood & Early Life

Manning and her mother moved to Haverfordwest, Wales in November 2001. Manning went to Tasker Milward secondary school located in the town of Haverfordwest where she continued to pursue his interest in computers.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 2005, after graduating from high school, Manning returned to the United States and moved in with her father, his second wife and her child in their house in Oklahoma City. Manning managed to acquire a job as a developer with a software company named Zoto but left the job after only four months.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 2007, Chelsea Manning joined the Army after her father’s constant persuasions. Chelsea also believed that joining the army might resolve her gender identity disorders.

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Career

On joining the army, Chelsea was the target of severe bullying over here also. After a short time, she was posted at Fort Drum in New York where she began dating Tyler Watkins a graduate of Brandeis University who was the one who introduced her to the Boston hacking community.

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Career

In early 2009, Manning was stationed at an isolated site in Iraq which is close to the Iranian border. The site was called Forward Operating Base.

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Career

Manning’s duties as Intelligence officer allowed her access to a lot of sensitive information which included everything from top-secret intelligence reports to videos of unarmed civilians being shot at and killed. This horrified and had a profound effect on Manning.

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Career

In November 2009, Manning reportedly made contact with the WikiLeaks organization run by Julian Assange, after unsuccessful attempts at trying to contact The New York Times and The Washington Post.

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Career

In 2011, she was awarded the ‘Whistleblowerpreis’ by the German Section of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms and the Federation of German Scientists.

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Awards & Achievements

In 2012, Global Exchange awarded her the ‘People’s Choice Award’.

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Awards & Achievements

In 2013, the International Peace Bureau awarded Chelsea Manning the Sean MacBride Peace Prize.

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Awards & Achievements

In 2014, she was awarded the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence by Sam Adams Associates.

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Awards & Achievements

She was awarded the EFF Pioneer Award in September 2017 for her actions as a whistleblower.

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Awards & Achievements