WHO'S YOUR MENTOR? with Gloria Steinem

Please join us for a celebration of mentorship to benefit Butler Koshland Fellowships with

Gloria Steinem & Amy Richards

Hosted by our Advisory Committee: Serra Butler Simbeck, Chair; Betsy Biern, Vice Chair; Lew Butler; Bob Friedman; Dan Geballe; Irma Herrera; Susan Hirsch; Mary Hughes; Marty Krasney; Tom Layton

Thursday, February 8
6:00pm—8:00pm
PROGRAM WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 6:30PM

The Open Square at Futures Without Violence
100 Montgomery Street, The Presidio (at the Main Post)
San Francisco, CA

Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

For more information, please contact Kate Brumage at (415) 852-6932 or kate@bkfellowships.org.

Download invitation PDF.

Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, political activist, and feminist organizer. She travels in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. She is particularly interested in the shared origins of sex and race 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.

In 1972, she co-founded Ms. magazine, and remained one of its editors for fifteen years. She continues to serve as a consulting editor for Ms., and was instrumental in the magazine’s move to join and be published by the Feminist Majority Foundation. In 1968, she had helped to found New York magazine, where she was a political columnist and wrote feature articles. As a freelance writer, she was published in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and women’s magazines as well as for publications in other countries. She has produced a documentary on child abuse for HBO, a feature film about the death penalty for Lifetime, and been the subject of profiles on Lifetime and Showtime. Her books include the bestsellers My Life on the Road, Revolution from Within: A Book of SelfEsteem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Moving Beyond Words, and Marilyn: Norma Jean. Her writing also appears in many anthologies and textbooks, and she was an editor of Houghton Mifflin’s The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History.

Amy Richards is a writer, producer and organizer. Most recently Amy produced the Emmy nominated series WOMAN for Viceland and curated a series of talks to accompany Annie Leibovitz’s traveling exhibit WOMEN. Amy is also the president of Soapbox, Inc., the foremost feminist lecture agency, and the affiliated Soapbox Foundation, creators of Feminist Camp. Amy lectures at dozens of venues each year and contributes, though her writings and media appearances, to the current public conversations on feminism.

In 1992, Amy co-founded and spent several years leading the Third Wave Foundation, a national organization for young feminist activists between the ages of 15 and 30, which continues today as the Third Wave Fund. During her tenure Amy created and sustained the organization’s signature program areas and initiated public education projects such as “I Spy Sexism,” and “Why Vote?” Amy’s leadership and visionary work launched her as a primary spokesperson and leading voice for contemporary feminist issues.