An Evening With GLORIA STEINEM at the Wharton Center in East Lansing Presented by MI Women Win

An Evening with Gloria Steinem will take place on October 8th at the Wharton Center in East Lansing. Pioneering feminist and Ms. Magazine founder, Gloria Steinem, will join Michigan Radio host, Cynthia Canty, for an engaging conversation about critical issues affecting women and girls including: gender equality, pay equity, access to women's healthcare, and gender violence.

The event is being hosted by MI Women Win, a political action committee focused on engaging women across generations in the political process through elevating the voices calling for policies that will improve the lives of Michigan women and families, and encouraging progressive women to seek elected and appointed office.

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.

For her work, she has received the Front Page and Clarion awards, National Magazine awards, an Emmy Citation for excellence in television writing, the Women's Sports Journalism Award, the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Writers Award from the United Nations, the James Weldon Johnson Award for Journalism, the National Gay Rights Advocates Award, the Ceres Medal from the United Nations, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

A lifelong resident of metro Detroit, Cynthia Canty is the host of Stateside on Michigan Radio. With 37 years of experience she has served as a popular radio host, television news anchor, producer, and as a general assignment reporter. Her writing and reporting have earned her many awards, including an Emmy and honors from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, the Associated Press and the Detroit Press Club.

An Evening with Gloria Steinem will take place on October 8th at the Wharton Center in East Lansing and tickets are on sale now. Tickets are $35 and student tickets are $10 (limited to one ticket per id.) For more information and tickets, visit www.whartoncenter.com.

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