Departures of note

Robin Morgan was an American poet, writer, journalist, and leading figure of the radical feminist movement. Beginning as a child actor on radio and television, including a starring role in the 1949 CBS series Mama, she later became a key organizer of the women's liberation movement, co-founding New York Radical Women and W.I.T.C.H. in the late 1960s and helping organize the 1968 Miss America protest.

Her 1970 anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful was cited by the New York Public Library as one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th century. She served as editor-in-chief of Ms. Magazine and wrote more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Morgan co-founded numerous organizations, including the Women's Media Center with Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Sisterhood Is Global Institute. In 2018 she was named one of BBC's 100 Women. She died in September 2026 at age 85.