World-renowned beauty authority, author and speaker, Marilyn Miglin, is among the nation's top 500 female entrepreneurs. Her signature fragrance, Pheromone, is one of the top 10 fragrances sold in luxury department stores across the country and every month, more than 65 million television viewers invite her into their homes to purchase her products.
Yet creating unparalleled products that afford their wearers unsurpassed personal expression is not Ms. She has also retained a spirit of altruism and community spirit.
Miglin currently serves on the special tourism committee of the Mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, as an officer of the Chicago Convention, the State of Illinois Board of Economic Development, and the Board of Directors of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Doctor. Under her chairmanship, the Oak Street Council raised more than $ 1 million to preserve and promote Oak Street's charm. It is a fitting honor then that "Marilyn Miglin Way" is now the honorary name of Oak Street's prestigious shopping district.
Her list of achievements and accolades, including the Raoul Wallenberg International Humanitarian Award, are many, but she is especially loved for what she gives back to the community. As a founding member of the University of Illinois advisory board for the Craniofacial Center, she is widely recognized for her work with the face-mutilated and burned survivors. In addition, she founded and orchestrated the Women of Destiny program, which recruited 200 of Chicago's most successful women to serve as mentors to ambitious young women in their chosen professions.
The city of Chicago proclaimed April 15 Marilyn Miglin Day, and in June 1998 a burns and mutilation unit was established at Raoul Wallenberg Pediatric Day Hospital in Jerusalem in honor of its tireless efforts for the children. Recently, the University of Illinois at the Chicago School of Medicine awarded Miglin the first annual Best Face Forward Humanitarian Award.
It is through these efforts that she is able to reconcile expression through cosmetics with expression through empowerment.