Emilie Benes Brzezinski

She earned a fine arts degree at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, United States.

After marrying, she sculpted for 25 years while raising a family, then had her first solo show in 1981 in Washington, D.C.[1] From the 1980s on, most of her works were in wood.

Shortly after graduating from Wellesley, Emilie Beneš, herself a relative of Czechoslovakia's former president Edvard Beneš, married Polish-born emigrant turned naturalized citizen Zbigniew Brzezinski, a political scientist who served as an adviser to Jimmy Carter while US president.

Their oldest son, Ian Brzezinski, served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy in 2001–2005.

Their youngest child, Mika Brzezinski, is a co-host of Morning Joe on MSNBC.