Rev. Willie Barrow. . .

is the Chairman of the Board, Emeritus, of Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. An ordained minister of the Church of God, she was the first female to be Vice President of the Illinois State Ministerial Assembly. She received her education at Warner-Pacific Theological Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and has received a number of honorary doctorates. She is an original member of the first National Staff of Operation BREADBASKET, and in 1963 was a coordinating member of the Chicago delegation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington. In 1968 she was National Organizer for The Poor People’s Campaign, and in 1969 led the first Statewide Coalition Against Hunger in Illinois. A member of the Democratic National Committee, she was National Deputy Campaign Manager and Road Manager for the Jackson for President Campaign in 1984.