Union organizer and president of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) Local 1414. President of the California Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and member of the Communist Party.
Co-founding officer of the Coalition of Labor Union Women and president of the United Public Workers Local 246. General manager for GM at Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 434.
Women’s Activist Lives in Los Angeles is a series of interviews done by graduate research assistants under the auspices of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. The series addresses the diverse ways in which women’s social movement activities affected public policy and transformed civic institut...
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LGBTQ activist and board member of the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.