THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Audrey Denecke
“I believe too in the often-invisible value of women who lead from the middle of movements.”
Lake County Illinois NOW Chapter, Secretary, Treasurer, Chairperson Rape Task Force, Member Task Force on Employment Compliance and Enforcement; National NOW Office Staff, Bookkeeper; NOW Staff Union, Organization of Social Change Employees (O.S.C.E.), President; Chicago NOW Legal Advocate Corps, Chair Employment Committee; 8th Day Center for Justice/Food Justice Programs (Hunger Project), Food Stamp Hotline Coordinator and Network Coordinator; Midwest Women’s Center, Director, Pre-Apprenticeship Program for Women and Affirmative Action/Training Consultant; Sr. Leader Coach, Change Consultant.
Interviewed by Kathy Rand, VFA Executive VP, October 2019
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Photo 1. Audrey, National NOW staff bookkeeper. Shared with permission of Jane R. Plitt, National Organization for Women Records, 1959-2002; item description, dates. MC 496, folder #, or M-152, reel # Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Photo 2. Audrey holding flag on left – ERA March, Chicago mid-1970’s.
More About Audrey:
- Audrey Denecke Bio
- National Organization for Women, Chicago Chapter Records, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Selected newspaper clippings 1975 – 1983
- Hearings before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations and Nutrition. Audrey Denecke prepared statement, Food Justice Programs, 1979
- Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities. Statement of Audrey Denecke, Midwest Women’s Center, August 1981