THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Peg Yorkin
April 16, 1927 – June 25, 2023
“I, for one, am putting my money where my mouth is. I am calling on women who are as angry as I am to join me in using our money to empower ourselves.”
Activist, philanthropist, fundraiser, producer. Elected delegate, National Women’s Conference, 1977. Producer, NOW 20th Anniversary Show, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 1986. Co-founder and chair, Feminist Majority Foundation, dedicated to women’s equality, reproductive health and non-violence, 1987. Co-founder, Fund for the Feminist Majority (a sister organization), 1987. Made a $10,000,000 endowment and gift to the Feminist Majority Foundation, 1991. First program of endowment was to help make mifepristone (RU 486) abortion pill, available to women in the US. Produced live theater in Los Angeles.
Photo. Peg Yorkin, Women Money Power Summit, National Press Club, 2017.
More About Peg:
- Obituary, The New York Times
- Rest in Power: Peg Yorkin, Feminist Trailblazer and Supporter of Women in Politics, Ms. Magazine
- Pelosi Statement on the Passing of Peg Yorkin, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
- Peg Yorkin, C-SPAN.org
- Peg Yorkin, Activist Video Archive
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book, Feminists Who Changed America, 1963 – 1975, page 503