Marjorie Margolies

Marjorie Margolies is a former member of Congress from Pennsylvania, a journalist, a women's rights advocate, and a mother many times over. Margolies graduated from the University of Pennsylvania before working as a journalist with NBC and its stations for 25 years. She served in 1995 as Deputy Chair of the United States delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference in Beijing and subsequently founded Women’s Campaign International (WCI). WCI has run women’s empowerment trainings in more than 50 countries. She is currently a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication.