The Women’s Media Center
Announces Virtual Benefit Auction Featuring Auction
Items Donated
By All-Star Group of Artists
& Activists
Billie Eilish,
Salma Hayek Pinault,
Joan
Jett,
Diane Lane, Pearl Jam, Bonnie
Raitt, Amy Schumer,
Patti Smith, Taylor Swift, &
Oprah Winfrey
Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan,
Gloria Steinem
and an
All-Star Group of Artists,
Musicians, Actors, Activists
Donate Special Items to be
Auctioned
at the
Women’s Media Center
Benefit Auction
Dates: November 9
- 15
Auction Registration:
www.WMCauction.givesmart.com
New York, New
York (November 9, 2020) — WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER
Co-Founders Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria
Steinem, announced today that THE WOMEN’S MEDIA
CENTER will celebrate its 15th
anniversary by hosting the first-ever WOMEN’S
MEDIA CENTER BENEFIT AUCTION. The auction will be
launched on November 9th and
will continue until November 15th.
An all-star list of artists,
musicians, actors, and activists are supporting the WMC
Benefit Auction by donating unique auction items,
autographed instruments, fashion, scripts, art, rock and
film memorabilia, and special experiences, like a week
at a castle in Ireland, a heavenly week in Hawaii, and
the Chairman’s Cabin at Sundance.
Musicians who
have donated auction items include: Jackson Browne,
Billie Eilish, Melissa
Etheridge, Janita, Joan Jett, Blake Morgan,
Graham Nash, Pearl Jam, Phish, Bonnie Raitt, Patti
Smith, Taylor Swift, James Taylor, and Eddie Vedder.
Actor, film,
television, and theater friends who have donated auction
items include: Samantha Bee, Geena Davis, Abigail
Disney, Sally Field, Jane Fonda,
Salma Hayek Pinault,
Lynn Hendee, Diane Lane,
Julianna Margulies,
Winter Miller, Pat Mitchell, Amy Schumer, Sarah
Silverman, Julie Taymor, V (formerly Eve Ensler),
and Oprah Winfrey.
Art and
fashion friends who have donated auction items include:
Sabina Belli, Shepard Fairey, Agnes Gund, Norma Kamali,
Annie Leibovitz, Jenny Warburg, and Matt Wuerker.
Authors and
activists who have donated auction items include:
Rebecca Adamson, Soraya Chemaly, Dr. Janet Dewart Bell,
Lauren Embrey, Alison Kiehl Friedman, Anne Kiehl
Friedman, Kristina Kiehl, Maria Hinojosa, Howie Klein,
Robin Morgan, Gloria Steinem, and Helen Zia.
The proceeds from
the WMC Auction will support the WOMEN’S MEDIA
CENTER work for inclusion,
equality, and representation.
This benefit auction is also a
celebration of the 15th anniversary of the
WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER (WMC).
Julie Burton, President and CEO
of WMC, said, “We
are so grateful to these artists and friends of WMC for
donating unique and valuable personal items to be auctioned
to provide financial support for the Women’s Media Center.
This important anniversary is a good moment to reflect on
everything we have accomplished – and our plans for the
future. The fight for women’s equality in the media is far
from over. We have a lot of work to do, and we are proud to
have these artists stand with us and support our work for
inclusion, representation, and equality.”
“Fifteen years ago, we created
the Women’s Media Center to address many of the root
problems of women’s invisibility,” says Gloria Steinem,
Co-Founder of the WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER. “We had no idea
that in such a world crisis as this one, the WMC would be
needed more than ever.”
Founded in 2005 by
Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria
Steinem, the WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER is an inclusive
feminist organization that works to make women visible and
powerful in media. We do so by promoting diverse women as
decision-makers and as subjects in media; training women
leaders to be effective in media; researching and exposing
sexism and racism in media; and modeling original feminist
online and on-air journalism.
WMC Board members
are: Rebecca Adamson, Janet Dewart Bell (WMC Board Vice
Chair), Julie Burton (WMC President and CEO), Soraya Chemaly,
Anita L. DeFrantz, Lauren Embrey, Jane Fonda, Judy Gold,
Erica González
Martínez, Pat Mitchell (WMC Board Chair), Robin Morgan,
Regina K. Scully, Gloria Steinem, Congresswoman Maxine
Waters,
and Helen
Zia (WMC Board Chair Emerita).
Co-Chairs for
the WMC AUCTION are: The
Bluhm Family Foundation,
Lauren Embrey, Jane
Fonda, Alison Kiehl
Friedman, Anne Kiehl
Friedman, Mellody
Hobson, Cindy Holland, Kristina Kiehl, Pat Mitchell, Robin
Morgan, Susan Pritzker,
Lynda & Stewart Resnick,
Sheryl Sandberg, Bonnie Schaefer, Regina K. Scully, Gloria
Steinem, Mary & Steven Swig,
and Jenny Warburg.
WMC
Auction Sponsors
are: Michele Anthony,
Agnes Gund, Helen LaKelly
Hunt, Victoria Jackson, Pandia Health Birth Control Fund,
and the Stewart R. Mott Foundation.
To find out more
about the WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER visit:
www.womensmediacenter.com
To register for the
WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER BENEFIT AUCTION, go to:
www.wmcauction.givesmart.com
For press
information about the WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER AUCTION,
contact Cristal Williams
Chancellor at
cristal@womensmediacenter.com
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