Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
(Doors open at 5:30 p.m.)
McArthur Gymnasium at Eckerd College
4200 54th Avenue South, St. Petersburg

Tickets are required. Admission is $10 (Note: admission is free to Eckerd students, faculty and staff; and $5 for Eckerd alumni). Purchase tickets online.

For more information about this event, e-mail events@eckerd.edu.

Gloria Steinem is one of the most influential writers, editors, and activists of our time. She co-founded Ms. Magazine, the Women's Action Alliance, the National Women's Political Caucus, Voters for Choice, Choice USA, the Ms. Foundation for Women and its Take Our Daughters to Work Day, and the Women's Media Center. The author of several bestsellers, she is currently at work on Road to the Heart: America As if Everyone Mattered, a book about her more than thirty years on the road as a feminist organizer.

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a child care activist and community organizer, founded the New York City Agency for Child Development. In 1971, along with Gloria Steinem, Brenda Feigen and Catherine Samuels, she co-founded the Women's Action Alliance. During the years surrounding the birth of Ms. Magazine, Ms. Hughes and Ms. Steinem appeared at hundreds of public meetings across the country. Ms. Hughes is the author of Wake Up and Smell the Dollars! Whose Inner-City Is This Anyway!

Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner are co-authors of both Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future and Grassroots:A Field Guide for Feminist Activism. Ms. Richards co-founded Third Wave Foundation and is currently at work on Opting In, a forthcoming book on feminism and motherhood. Ms. Baumgardner was the youngest editor at Ms. Magazine. Her most recent book Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics, explores gender, sexuality, and feminism.

The Gloria Steinem and Friends event is sponsored by the St. Petersburg Times Fund, Inc.

Campus sponsors include the Women's Resource Center at Eckerd, Eckerd College Organization of Students and Office of Communications. This event is part of Eckerd's Presidential Events Series and College Program Series.