Donna Allen (August 19, 1920 – July 19, 1999) was an American pioneer feminist, civil rights activist, historian, economist, and founder of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.
[1][2][3] Allen was born in Petosky, Michigan on August 19, 1920, to Caspar and Louis Rehkopf.
It recognizes feminist media activists who promote women's rights and freedoms.
[5][6] Some recipients of this award are: 2001 – Award Created 2002 – no winner on record 2003 – Ammu Joseph, Women's Feature Service 2004 – Rita Henley Jenson, Women's eNews 2005 – Michelle Weldon, Northwestern 2006 – no winner on record 2007 – no winner on record 2008 – Caryl Rivers, Boston 2009 – Carolyn Byerly, Howard 2010 – Pamela Creedon, Iowa 2011- ?
2013 – Soraya Chemaly 2014 - Barbara Friedman and Anne Johnston 2015 – Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno 2016 – Stine Eckert 2017 – Carolyn Bronstein 2018 – Petula Dvorak 2019 – Tracy Everbach 2020 – Susan Leath 2021 – Maria Marron