Stop 11--Rita Henley Jensen

Rita Henley Jensen is the founder and editor-in-chief of Women’s eNews, a nonprofit news service for issues of particular concern to women. Women’s eNews has won over 37 journalism awards, and Jensen herself has also won an armful of awards, including the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni award, the Alicia Patterson fellowship, and the Lloyd P. Burns Public Service prize. Jensen formerly worked for the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. She was also a senior writer for the National Law Journal and a columnist for the New York Times Syndicate. She has testified before New York City Council on crisis pregnancy centers, and in front of Congress on immigration. Jensen is a survivor of domestic violence and a former welfare mother who earned degrees from Ohio State University and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She reads a quote from Jenny June, a pioneer female journalist who worked as an editor at the New York World, as well as at multiple other newspapers.