Welcome elcome to the 2018 Feminist Power Awards! We are changing the face of publishing and I’m thrilled that you’re here with us tonight bringing new voices into the conversation at all to celebrate an astounding forty-eight years of levels of our organization and work. Storytelling is Wrevolutionary publishing at the Feminist Press. a powerful tool for social justice; it brings together It has been a fantastic year and three months generations and helps us collectively imagine and since I joined FP as executive director and publisher. build a better world for all. Thank you for standing I am proud to lead an organization that has served with us in this urgent mission. as the vanguard of feminist publishing for nearly Tonight, we salute four incredible feminists five decades. FP represents the past, present, and for their exemplary work as leaders, activists, and future of intersectional feminist creativity and thinkers: Prisca Bae, Deborah Santana, Jules Spector, thought leadership, and I am so excited to honor and Marcy Syms. We are delighted to recognize your our incredible legacy as our movement continues to exceptional contributions! strengthen and grow. I want to extend my deepest gratitude to The readers, writers, educators, and allies who everyone on the FP Board of Directors and staff, as make up our community know that books build well as all of you in this room who keep feminist bridges, not walls. At the Feminist Press, we publish publishing alive and thriving. Thank you! the texts our culture needs right now—stories that With warm appreciation, inspire people to listen and learn from one another, to resist injustice in all its forms, and to take action.

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Helene D. Goldfarb Astro Gallery of Gems Lunapads AWARDS Jennifer Behr Mara Hoffman Florence Howe Marcy Syms Book Culture McNally Jackson Prisca Bae Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab Camp Cody Judith G. Miller Jules Spector and the Hunter College community Marietta Daniel Janet Mock Dr. Martens Nadya Deborah Santana Dan Harrison Emelin Theatre for the Omega Institute Tricia Wentworth Performing Arts Otherwild HOSTED BY Gloria: A Life Steiner Sports Carol Jenkins Sandra Levine Travis Sullivan Lingua Nigra Zabar’s risca Bae is Senior Director for Strategy and Planning in the Global Public Policy and Government Affairs group at PepsiCo. In this role, Ms. Bae serves as chief of staff to the SENIOR DIRECTOR, GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY Global and North America SVPs. Prisca& GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, Bae PEPSICO P She previously managed the gender diversity and women’s strategy for PepsiCo’s Global Diversity & Engagement Center of Excellence, where she led the development and launch of a $100 million commitment to women and girls for Performance with Purpose 2025, the company’s sustainability agenda. Before joining PepsiCo, she worked with Fortune 100 companies on strategic women’s empowerment programs as Vice President at Seneca Point Global (SPG), an advisory firm founded by Melanne Verveer, the former US Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, and Kim Azzarelli, author and advocate for women and girls. Prior to SPG, she helped launch and served as the inaugural Director of the Women in the World Foundation, a public charity founded out of Tina Brown’s Women in the World Summit at Newsweek and the Daily Beast. She joined Women in the World from Goldman Sachs, where she managed Goldman Sachs Gives, a billion-dollar charitable fund available to partners of the firm. Ms. Bae was also an attorney at Latham & Watkins LLP in New York, and served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable William M. Hoeveler, Senior Judge in the Southern District of Florida. She has also worked for the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice and on the Ron Kirk for United States Senate Campaign in Texas, where she led Asian American stakeholder and community engagement. Ms. Bae received her BA from Columbia College, Columbia University, and JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). She lives in New York City. eborah Santana is an author, business leader, and activist for peace and social justice. Editor and copublisher of the 2018 anthology All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World, she seeks to promote the Deborah Dwisdom of women of color. Her nonprofit, Do A Little, serves women and girls in the areas of health, FOUNDER & CEO, DO A LITTLE education, and happiness. With a passion for girls’ education, Ms. Santana has Santana supported and loved the young women at Daraja Academy in Nanyuki, Kenya, since 2009. In 2005 she published her memoir, Space Between the Stars. Ms. Santana has produced five short documentary films, four with Emmy Award–winning director Barbara Rick: Road to Ingwavuma, Girls of Daraja, School of My Dreams, and Powerful Beyond Measure. Ms. Santana is married to actor Carl Lumbly and is a mother to four beloved adult children: Salvador Santana, a songwriter and instrumental artist; Stella Santana, a singer/songwriter; Angelica Santana, an archivist and film producer; and Brandon Lumbly, a filmmaker and actor. A leadership donor to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, she cares deeply for the rights and equality of all people. ules Spector is the founder and author of Teen Feminist, started in late 2013. As a member of the 2013–14 class of FOUNDER, TEEN FEMINIST Teen Advisors and the codirector of the New York Coalition for Jules Spector JGirl Up, she has dedicated herself to advocating for the rights of girls and women around the world. She is a contributor to the online Gen-Z think tank Irregular Labs. She has been profiled in Mashable, BuzzFeed, DOLLY magazine, the Guardian, and Seventeen. She will be attending Wellesley College in the fall of 2019. She believes that girls everywhere are the future. arcy Syms is the founding trustee and president of the Sy Syms Foundation and president of TPD Group LLC, a multigenerational SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR; succession planning company. She is the former chair and CEO of SYMS, MarcyPHILANTHROPIST & CHAIR, Syms ERA COALITION Mone of the first companies to offer designer and brand-name clothing at “off price” rather than “regular price.” In 1983, when taking SYMS public, Ms. Syms became the youngest female president of a New York Stock Exchange company. In 2009 SYMS acquired Filene’s Basement and operated fifty stores under both names. Ms. Syms serves on numerous boards, including the National Public Radio (NPR) Foundation, the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, and the ERA Coalition, where she is the board chair. Her work has been honored by Women’s eNews, the Ms. Foundation, Boston University, and more. MARIETTA DANIEL is on the boards of the Feminist Press, UN Women–NY, and Step Up Women’s Network–NY. Marietta is an active member of various progressive causes and nonprofits including EMILY’s List Majority Circle, Higher Heights for America Founders Circle, and Women’s City Club of New York. She served on amfAR’s Young Executive Support Committee raising money for AIDS Feminist Press research and the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club. STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS CAROL JENKINS is a women’s rights and media activist, author, and filmmaker. Jamia Wilson, Executive Director & Publisher Linda Villarosa, Chair An Emmy Award–winning television journalist, she hosts the Emmy-nominated Lucia Brown, External Relations Manager Helene D. Goldfarb, President interview show Black America on CUNY TV. She serves on numerous boards Hannah Goodwin, Outreach & Operations Manager Jan Constantine, Vice President including the ERA Coalition, Amref, and the Feminist Press. Jenkins was founding Lauren Rosemary Hook, Senior Editor Lori Fox, Secretary president of the Women’s Media Center and is the coauthor (with her daughter) Jisu Kim, Marketing, Sales & Publicity Manager Tricia Wentworth, Treasurer of Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire. Sophia Booth Magnone, Development Manager Rana Barclay Chase Robinson, LINDA VILLAROSA runs the journalism program at the City College of New York Drew Stevens, Art Director ex officio Blanche Wiesen Cook and teaches writing and media studies. She is also a contributing writer to the Marietta Daniel, Gala Chair Sandra Robinson New York Times Magazine, where she covers health, social justice, and LGBTQ 2018 INTERNS Ken Greenstein Judi Rosenthal issues. A former Essence magazine executive editor and New York Times science Luriel Balaurea, Mya Ballin, Neeti Banerji, Lisa Holton Brian B. Schwartz editor, Villarosa is the author or coauthor of a dozen books, including Body & Soul: Ruthie Block, Zixu Fan, Maya Lewis, The Black Women’s Guide to Physical Health and Emotional Well-Being and the Florence Howe Rebecca Seawright Elise Levy, Bry’onna Mention, Sophia Ordaz, novel Passing for Black. Carol Jenkins Lara Torsky Julia Rittenberg, Amna Shams, Halle Smith, Elaine Walsh Linda B. Kane JAMIA WILSON is the executive director and publisher of the Feminist Press. Christine Tenny, Nick Whitney Joyce Whitby Judith G. Miller Previously, Wilson has served as executive director of Women, Action & the Media, TED Prize storyteller, and VP of programs at Women’s Media Center. A thought leader and writer, Wilson has contributed to New York magazine, the New York Times, The Today Show, and the Guardian, and is a columnist for Rookie. Stories by Asja Bakić Stories by Zoble Jennifer by Translated MARS The Summer of Dead Birds takes readers on a lyrical road trip winding through death, breakups, and the complications of everyday finding for With a knack living. humor in grief and absurdity in Ali Liebegott embraces life’s beauty, casual highs and inevitable lows, exposing her humanity and inviting and with ourselves a connectivity the people who populate our sometimes gorgeous, ridiculous, painful planet.

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