On April 2010, ASWM conferred the first Demeter Award for Leadership in Women’s Spirituality to journalist and cultural commentator Margot Adler.
Margot Adler is a long-time correspondent for National Public Radio, based in NPR’s New York Bureau. Her reports can be heard regularly on All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition. From 1999-2008, Adler was also the host of NPR’s Justice Talking, a weekly show exploring constitutional controversies in the nation’s courts.
Adler is the author of the ground-breaking study of alternative spirituality in America, Drawing Down the Moon, which introduced nature religions to hundreds of thousands of readers. She is an active lecturer on pagan studies and women’s spirituality. The presentation of the first Demeter Award to Adler recognized her influence in changing public perceptions of women’s religions, past and present.
Margot Adler is a fantastic choice. Her writing and her journalism are top notch and she has been committed to women’s issues and paganism for years. It’s a shame that they discontinued Justice Talking. It was a brilliant idea well-executed.