Yolanda Bako | |
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Born | 1946 |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Activist against domestic violence |
Known for | Co-founded New York City's first state-funded shelter for battered women (1977) |
Yolanda Bako (born 1946) is an American feminist and activist against domestic violence.
Yolanda Bako was born in the Bronx; both of her parents were born in Hungary. [1] Her father was a bouncer at a bar. [2] She graduated from Evander Childs High School. "When I think of the universe, the Bronx is at its center," she commented about her origins, in 1978. [3]
Bako worked as secretary and at the Guggenheim Museum as a young woman. [4] [5] She became coordinator of the Center for the Elimination of Violence in the Family, [6] and in 1977 co-founded Women's Survival Space in Brooklyn, [7] the city's first state-funded shelter for battered women. [1] [8] She was a rape prevention educator at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a founding member of the Mayor's Task Force on Rape. [9] She was active in the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women, [10] and with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. [11] She coordinated the 1976 Women's Walk Against Rape in Central Park, telling the New York Times, "We have the right to use the world at night." [12]
In 1978, she testified at Congressional hearings on domestic violence and sexual assault. [13] [14] She was the author of How to start a county-wide task force on family violence (1980), a booklet for the American Friends Service Committee. [15] In the 1980s she worked at the Bronx State Psychiatric Hospital as a mental health therapy aide, and in 1995 she attended the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. [16] In 2017, Bako spoke at "a reunion of second-wave feminists" held by the Veteran Feminists of America in New York. [17] [16]
Over six feet tall, [14] Bako was a striking presence in feminist activism in the 1970s New York. [3] Her papers are in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard. [18]
Yolanda Bako | |
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Born | 1946 |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Activist against domestic violence |
Known for | Co-founded New York City's first state-funded shelter for battered women (1977) |
Yolanda Bako (born 1946) is an American feminist and activist against domestic violence.
Yolanda Bako was born in the Bronx; both of her parents were born in Hungary. [1] Her father was a bouncer at a bar. [2] She graduated from Evander Childs High School. "When I think of the universe, the Bronx is at its center," she commented about her origins, in 1978. [3]
Bako worked as secretary and at the Guggenheim Museum as a young woman. [4] [5] She became coordinator of the Center for the Elimination of Violence in the Family, [6] and in 1977 co-founded Women's Survival Space in Brooklyn, [7] the city's first state-funded shelter for battered women. [1] [8] She was a rape prevention educator at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a founding member of the Mayor's Task Force on Rape. [9] She was active in the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women, [10] and with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. [11] She coordinated the 1976 Women's Walk Against Rape in Central Park, telling the New York Times, "We have the right to use the world at night." [12]
In 1978, she testified at Congressional hearings on domestic violence and sexual assault. [13] [14] She was the author of How to start a county-wide task force on family violence (1980), a booklet for the American Friends Service Committee. [15] In the 1980s she worked at the Bronx State Psychiatric Hospital as a mental health therapy aide, and in 1995 she attended the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. [16] In 2017, Bako spoke at "a reunion of second-wave feminists" held by the Veteran Feminists of America in New York. [17] [16]
Over six feet tall, [14] Bako was a striking presence in feminist activism in the 1970s New York. [3] Her papers are in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard. [18]