Yolanda Bako was born in the Bronx; both of her parents were born in Hungary.[1] Her father was a bouncer at a bar.[2] She graduated from Evander Childs High School. "When I think of the universe, the Bronx is at its center," she commented about her origins, in 1978.[3]
In 1978, she testified at Congressional hearings on domestic violence and sexual assault.[13][14] She was the author of How to start a county-wide task force on family violence (1980), a booklet for the American Friends Service Committee.[15] In the 1980s she worked at the Bronx State Psychiatric Hospital as a mental health therapy aide, and in 1995 she attended the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.[16] In 2017, Bako spoke at "a reunion of second-wave feminists" held by the Veteran Feminists of America in New York.[17][16]
Personal life
Over six feet tall,[14] Bako was a striking presence in feminist activism in the 1970s New York.[3] Her papers are in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard.[18]
↑ United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Domestic and International Scientific Planning, Analysis, and Cooperation, Research Into Violent Behavior: Overview and Sexual Assaults (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978).
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