Brenda Feigen was among the feminist elite of the 1970s. Her work in the Women's Movement included serving as legislativevice president of NOW (with responsibility for work on the ERA and abortion rights), and directing with Ruth Bader Ginsburg the Women's Rights Project of the ACLU. Ms. Feigen was a cofounder of the National Women’s Political Caucus, founder of the Women’s Action Alliance, and co-founder of Ms. magazine with Gloria Steinem.

A breast cancer survivor and lawyer, Ms. Feigen is president of the newly formed non-profit organization National Breast Cancer Education and Legal Center. Immediate plans include producing an educational video, which will be released by Paramount, as well as taking on litigation which will establish national norms for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.

Ms. Feigen is also currently an entertainment and literary lawyer, who also has experience running production and literary management companies. She is a literary manager for non-fiction and fiction authors, screenwriters and actors and often undertakes producing movies based on the material she represents. While maintaining her New York-based law practice, Ms. Feigen is a partner of and general counsel to Feigen/Parrent Literary Management in California, and she is also co-president of and general counsel to Reel Life Women Production Company, which strives to make movies for and about women. For several months, starting in January 2000, she served as a manager of "Entertainment Goes Global," a joint project of the Annenberg School for Communication's Norman Lear Center and the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Ms. Feigen produced NAVY SEALS, an Orion Pictures release; she has also been attached to produce various other projects. She worked with Jane Fonda and Jane Wagner on a feature for MGM; worked on a CBS Movie of the Week and other Movies of the Week for Showtime, Warner Bros. and ABC Productions partnered first with Jane Alexander and later with Meredith Baxter to develop movies about women. At present, she is concentrating on a four-hour mini-series that she will produce with Meryl Streep, who will also star in it.

Ms. Feigen is the author of Not One of the Boys : Living Life As a Feminist "Alfred A. Knopf, 2000" and has been a contributor to the Harvard Law Bulletin, Harvard Women’s Law Journal, Ms. magazine, Vogue magazine, and The Village Voice. She has also written "Developing and Packaging a Feature Film" for the Practicing Law Institute’s volumes: Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry.Ms. Feigen studied Mathematics at Vassar College and received a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She was also an Honorary President’s Fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and an Alvin and Peggy Brown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, Executive Seminar Program. Ms. Feigen is a member of the Steering Committee of the Harvard Committee on Entertainment, Sports & Cyberspace Law; she is on the Board of Directors of California Lawyers for the Arts; and is also a member of the Authors Guild, Pen Center USA West, and the Los Angeles County and New York Civil and Criminal Courts Bar Associations.

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