THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Brenda Feigen
“I feel very strongly that people have lost sight of the whole idea of women’s rights.”
Activist, Author, Attorney, Speaker, Producer. Co-founded Ms. Magazine. National Vice President of Legislation for NOW, 1973. Elected to the Policy Council of the National Women’s Political Caucus, 1973. Formed the Women’s Action Alliance. Co-founder (along with Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and Director of the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project and the Reproductive Freedom Rights Project. Honorary Board member of Veteran Feminists of America.
Interviewed by Mary Jean Collins, VFA Historian, February 2024
Photo 1. Brenda at the Democratic National Convention, 1972. Photo 2. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brenda.
More About Brenda:
- Brenda Feigen website
- Feigen Law Group website
- RGB – The Film
- Brenda appeared in the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning documentary, “RBG,”
- Veteran Feminists of America
- The Woman Behind ‘Navy SEALS,’ by David Wallace, Los Angeles Times, July, 1990.
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 142
- Wikipedia page