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Sonia Pressman Fuentes (born May 30, 1928 in Berlin, Germany) is a German American author, speaker, feminist leader, and lawyer.

Early years and education

Fuentes was born in Berlin, Germany, of Polish parents, with whom she came to the U.S. to escape the Holocaust. She graduated from Cornell University and the University of Miami School of Law.

Career

In the U.S., she became one of the founders of the second wave of the women's movement. She was a co-founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and Federally Employed Women (FEW), and she was one of the first woman lawyers in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). She contributed to several early sexual discrimination cases by connecting complainants with feminist lawyers outside the EEOC.

Fuentes is the author of a memoir, Eat First—You Don't Know What They'll Give You, The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter (1999). Her articles on women's rights and other subjects have been published in newspapers, magazines, and journals in the U.S. and other countries.

She is a member of the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. Since 1994, she resided in Sarasota, Florida.

Her papers are archived in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University.

Awards

• Foremother Award from the National Center for Health Research.

References

1. Commencement program of the University of Miami, June 10, 1957
2. "Sonia Pressman Fuentes". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
3. Strebeigh 2009, p. 115.
4. Banaszak, Lee Ann (2010). The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13286-2. pp. 126-127.
5. Fuentes, Sonia Pressman (November 24, 1999). Eat First -- You Don't Know What They'll Give You: The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter. Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4628-1462-6.
6. Fuentes, Sonia Pressman, Letter to the Editor, SRQ Daily, July 9, 2013.
7. "Collection: Papers of Sonia Pressman Fuentes, ca.1929-2009 (Inclusive), 1955-2009 (Bulk) | HOLLIS for".
8. "Foremother and Health Policy Hero Awards Luncheon". May 7, 2018.

Bibliography

• Strebeigh, Fred (February 13, 2009). Equal: Women Reshape American Law. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06555-8.

Further reading

• Cox, Billy (September 23, 2013). "Feminist returns to Belgium, site of Holocaust escape". Sarasota: HeraldTribune.com.
• "Sonia Pressman Fuentes". Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. Maryland State Archives.

External links

• Official website
• Sonja Pressman Fuentes at the Jewish Women's Archive

• 1928 births
• Living people
• 20th-century American non-fiction writers
• 20th-century American women writers
• Jewish American non-fiction writers
• American women lawyers
• American women non-fiction writers
• National Organization for Women people
• People from Sarasota, Florida
• Jewish feminists
• Jewish women writers
• American people of Polish descent
• Cornell University alumni
• University of Miami School of Law alumni
• Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
• 21st-century American Jews
• 21st-century American women