From: MMOW2000@aol.com Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:35:22 EDT Subject: Veteran Activist Ginny Foat Named Associate Producer of MMOW From the Communications Department of the Millennium March on Washington for Equality April 30, 2000 . Washington, DC For more info, click: Official Site of the Millennium March on Washington Ginny Foat Named Associate Producer of Millennium March on Washington for Equality Washington, DC -- Veteran activist and organizer Ginny Foat has been named Associate Producer of the Millennium March on Washington for Equality, scheduled for April 30, 2000 in Washington, DC. Foat served as Executive Director of Caring for Babies With AIDS in Los Angeles from 1989 through 1998. Under her guidance, the organization expanded services to HIV infected and affected infants and children and their families in Southern California and its annual budget grew from $290,000 to $3.1 million. Foat is past President of the California National Organization for Women, the largest state organization of feminists, both women and men, in the United States; served as Founder and Executive Director of Legal Advocates for Women in San Francisco; and created a network of women's organizations that encompassed shelters, legal advocates and children's services. In 1996, she was named co-chair of the Los Angles County Commission on HIV Health Services. As a veteran activist, Foat has appeared on Nightline, Larry King, Oprah, Sally Jessie Raphael, and Donahue, and frequently presents testimony to federal and state legislators on women's issues, homophobia and racism, HIV/AIDS, children's issues and civil rights. Among her many recognitions and awards, Foat is recipient of the "Alice Paul Award" for her national work on behalf of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, "Woman of the Year: A Friend Who Cares" peer award given by HIV/AIDS organizations, and "1988 Business Woman of the Year" award by the Los Angeles Women in Business. The Millennium March on Washington for Equality, scheduled for April 30, 2000, will be the fourth national march on Washington in the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender justice movement. Additional information is available at the MMOW Official Website at http://mmow.org. (END) FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: James Birkitt MMOW Director of Communications 15842 Chase Street North Hills, CA 91343 Tel. (818) 891-1748 Fax: (818) 893-1593 E-Mail: MMOW2000@aol.com Website: http://www.mmow.org