THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Ms. Steinem helped to found the Women's Action Alliance, a pioneering national information center that specialized in nonsexist, multiracial children's education, and the National Women's Political Caucus, a group that continues to work to advance the numbers of pro-equality women in elected and appointed office at a national and state level. She also co-founded the Women's Media Center in 2004. She was president and co-founder of Voters for Choice, a pro-choice political action committee for twenty-five years, then with the Planned Parenthood Action Fund when it merged with VFC for the 2004 elections. She was also co-founder and serves on the board of Choice USA ( now URGE ), a national organization that supports young pro-choice leadership and works to preserve comprehensive sex education in schools. She was the founding president of the Ms. Foundation for Women, a national multi-racial, multi-issue fund that supports grassroots projects to empower women and girls, and also a founder of its Take Our Daughters to Work Day, a first national day devoted to girls that has now become an institution here and in other countries.

As a writer Ms. Steinem has received numerous awards and has been the subject of three documentaries. In 2014, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. Her autobiography, "My Life on the Road", was published in 2015. For more information about Ms. Steinem and her work, please visit her website gloriasteinem.com .

Personal PAC is a non-partisan political action committee ( PAC ) dedicated to electing pro-choice candidates to state and local offices in Illinois. The Annual Awards Luncheon will be held at 12:00pm on Thursday, October 13th at the Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Avenue.

Personal PAC's luncheon is attended by over 1,000 supporters, including over 100 elected officials and candidates from across the state. Personal PAC identifies tens of thousands of pro-choice voters, professionally develops direct mail campaigns to educate and motivate pro-choice voters, initiates an Election Day get-out-the-vote program, and assembles campaign strategists to provide pro-choice candidates with the tools to win on Election Day. Further questions regarding Personal PAC's political strategy can be directed to Terry Cosgrove, President & CEO, at 312-422-0005.