Birgit Cunningham (born 6 January 1963) is an Anglo-American events organizer, activist, and campaigner for the rights of single mothers.Cunningham was born in San Francisco, the daughter of a treasurer of the Bank of America and a German-born mother, and is the eldest of three daughters. When she was nine, her family moved to England and settled at Leatherhead in Surrey. She was educated at Roedean, then took a degree in history of art at Rutgers University. After that, aged twenty-two, she moved to Paris and worked in an art gallery. Wikipedia