Muriel Fox

Feminist icon Muriel Fox co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW), which created the modern women’s movement, beginning on October 29, 1966. An organizing lieutenant to Betty Friedan and head of NOW’s communications, she introduced the movement to the media of the world. She co-founded the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (now Legal Momentum) and founded NOW’s New York Chapter.

Muriel Fox was also co-founder and president of The Women’s Forum and is chair of Veteran Feminists of America. As executive vice president of Carl Byoir & Associates, one of the world’s largest public relations agencies, Muriel Fox was dubbed “number one woman in public relations” by Business Week magazine. Fox graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Barnard College in 1948. At age 96, she remains an influential voice in the women’s movement.

She is listed in “Who’s Who in America,” “Who’s Who in the World,” and “Foremost Women of the Twentieth Century.”