 | Gloria Steinem |
Political activist and best-selling author Gloria Steinem will visit Yale
as a Chubb Fellow on Wednesday, Sept. 26.
T H I S
Activist and author Gloria Steinem
to visit as Chubb Fellow
She will deliver a free public address at 4:30 p.m. in the United Church on
the Green, 270 Temple St.
Steinem has been an outspoken leader of the women’s movement since the
1960s. She currently studies and writes about the shared origins of sex- and
race-based caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence,
non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous peoples and organizing
across boundaries for peace and justice.
Steinem has made major contributions as a print and documentary journalist.
In 1968, she helped found New York magazine, where she was a political columnist
and feature writer. She co-founded Ms. magazine in 1982 and remained one
of its editors for 15 years. She continues to serve as
a consulting editor for Ms., and was instrumental in the magazine’s
recent move to join the Feminist Majority Foundation. As the founding president
of the Ms. Foundation for Women, a national fund that supports grassroots projects
to empower women and girls, she established Take Our Daughters to Work Day.
Steinem has produced a documentary on child abuse for HBO and a feature film
about the death penalty for Lifetime.
Steinem’s books include the bestsellers “Revolution from Within:
A Book of Self-Esteem,” “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions” and “Moving
Beyond Words.” She was awarded a Doctorate of Human Justice from Simmons
College, and has won the National Gay Rights Advocates Award, the Ceres Medal
from the United Nations, an Emmy citation for excellence in television writing
and the Lifetime Achievement
in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Biography
magazine listed her as one of the 25 most influential women in America.
In 1993, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
As a political activist, Steinem helped to found the Women’s Action Alliance,
a pioneering national information center that specialized in non-sexist, multi-racial
education, and the National Women’s Political Caucus, a multicultural,
intergenerational and multi-issue grassroots organization dedicated to
increasing women’s participation in the political process and creating
a political power base to achieve equality for all women. She was president
and co-founder of Voters for Choice. She also co-founded and serves on the
board of Choice USA, a national organization that supports young pro-choice
leadership and works to preserve comprehensive sex education in schools.
Steinem is currently working with the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College,
her alma mater, documenting the grassroots origins of the U.S. women’s
movement. She is writing “Road to the Heart: America as if Everyone Mattered,” a
book about her years on the road as a feminist organizer.
The Chubb Fellowship was designed to encourage Yale College students in the
operations of government, culture and public service. Established in 1936 through
the generosity of Hendon Chubb (Yale 1895), the program brings three or four
distinguished women and men to campus every year to give public lectures and
interact informally with students.
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