Carol Jenkins

Bio

Carol Jenkins is an Emmy-winning journalist, an activist and author.

As President and CEO of the ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women’s Equality, sister organizations dedicated to the adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment she steered the organizations through their legislative, judicial and educational work to advance the constitutional amendment. As lead representative she participated in many speeches, talks, opinion pieces. media appearances, and testified on the ERA before House Committee on Oversight and Reform. With nearly 300 partner organizations representing millions of people across the country, the ERA Coalition has become a powerful force in the equality movement. A board member since its inception. she continues to serve there, pursuing the ERA’s publication and implementation.

Carol Jenkins was also founding president of The Women’s Media Center, another national nonprofit, created to increase the representation and participation of women in media. As president, she conceived the Progressive Women’s Voices program that has produced many of our leading activists of today, and testified before the Federal Communications Committee. She is a former chair and current board member of Amref Health Africa USA, an arm of the largest health NGO in Africa, where she is engaged in efforts to support health programs for African women and girls.

As a pioneering African American television reporter, Jenkins was an Emmy winning anchor and correspondent for WNBC TV in New York for nearly 25 years. She reported from the floor of national presidential conventions and internationally, including South Africa for the release of Nelson Mandela from prison.

Ms. Jenkins is co-author of the award winning book Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire, a biography of her uncle; hosts the three-time NY Emmy-nominated interview program, Black America; and is executive producer, writer and correspondent of its documentaries, including the PBS-aired “More Than a Building, A Dream Come True,” an award-winning film detailing the creation of the new African American Museum in Washington, DC and “Conscience of America: Birmingham’s Fight for Civil Rights,” a special on the Birmingham National Civil Rights Monument, which won a national Telly award.