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Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem is one of the most influential writers, editors, and feminist activists of our time. She is being honored for her role in projecting feminist thinking onto the national and global landscape. Ms. Steinem founded Ms.magazine in 1972. Most recently she brought together a group of women investors to form Liberty Medium for Women to repurchase Ms. As an activist, Ms. Steinem has supported many burgeoning organizations. She helped found the Women’s Action Alliance, a national advocacy and information center and the National Women's Political Caucus. She is President of Voters for Choice, an independent bi-partisan political action committee supporting candidates who are pro-choice. As a writer, she is particularly interested in the shared origins of sex, race and caste systems; gender roles and child abuse as the roots of violence; and in organizing across national boundaries for peace and justice.