TRAFFIC ALERT for Gloria Steinem Sat. Oct 8th:  

Due to the expected end time of the 3:30pm MSU football game, outbound football traffic will coincide with inbound Wharton Center traffic.  Please allow extra time and patience for traffic congestion, detours, and heavy pedestrian traffic on campus and around East Lansing.  We recommend entering campus at the following points, as available.

North:    Grand River to Bogue St., left onto Shaw Ln.

West:     Service Rd., left onto Bogue St., right onto Wilson Rd.

East:      Northbound Hagadorn Rd., turning left onto Fee Rd., left onto Wilson Rd.

South:   Mt. Hope Rd. to Hagadorn Rd., turning left onto Fee Rd., left onto Wilson Rd.

Parking will be available at the Wharton Center Ramp.  Parking is $5.00 CASH ONLY. 

For more than half a century, Gloria Steinem has worked to advance equality, and remains an iconic and inspiring voice on all fronts of social activism. As a writer, producer, activist, and organizer, she has addressed a wide range of rights issues throughout her life and career.

She co-founded Ms. magazine, serving as an editor for fifteen years, and helped co-found New York magazine. Ms. Steinem also helped to found the Women's Action Alliance, the National Women's Political Caucus, and the Women's Media Center. 

As a member of the Beyond Racism Initiative, she joined with activists and experts from South Africa, Brazil and the United States to compare the racial patterns of countries and to learn cross-nationally. As links to other countries, she helped found Equality Now, Donor Direct Action and Direct Impact Africa.  

Steinem’s television credits include an Emmy Award winning TV documentary concerning child abuse and the current Emmy-nominated series, WOMAN, that explores human rights with a focus on first-person accounts and support systems.  She is among the subjects of the documentary MAKERS, a continuing project to record the women who made America.

Her books include the bestsellers Revolution from Within, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Moving Beyond Words, and As If Women Matter. Her most recent book, My Life on the Road, tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change.

Cynthia Canty, host of Stateside on Michigan Radio, will engage Gloria Steinem in a lively conversation followed by an audience Q&A session.

Bios:

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.