THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Alice Kitchen
“My whole life, being around strong women is what has shaped me, made me, and nourished me through the years. Wherever I have been, that has been the heart and soul of who I am now and have been shaped by.”
Social worker, educator and adjunct faculty member at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Appointed to the Commission on the Status of Women. Member of the Women’s Equity Action League Board (WEAL). Co-founder of Amethyst Place. Co-member and a coordinator of the Loretto Feminist Network. Awarded a “Champion of Change Award” by the White House. In Kansas City, advocated for the Convention against Discrimination in all Forms Against Women. Helped make a pay equity study happen as co-chair of the Women’s Equality Coalition. A Commissioner on the Human Rights Commission of Missouri. Chair of the Gender Equity Task Force, Kansas City, MO Human Rights Commission.
Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, November 2024
More About Alice:
- Abbreviated resume
- Why this former Catholic nun is voting yes on Missouri Amendment 3 for abortion rights, by Alice Kitchen, October 2024
- Co-member Alice Kitchen Receives Starr Women’s Hall of Fame Award, 2023
- Women’s equality and Medicaid with Alice Kitchen podcast, January 2022
- Alice Kitchen, ‘one of the great Kansas Citians,’ is retired, but not resting, May 2014
- Co-Chair for the Affordable Care Act Public Education Committee of the Metro Kansas City area, spreads “the good news” of what the Affordable Care Act can do for the uninsured and underinformed. March 2012
- Giving Power to the powerless. Alice Kitchen to be honored for helping women and children. March 1993
- Alice Kitchen’s Statement of the Kansas Women’s Equity Action League before the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health, Washington, DC, April 27th, 1984.
- Loretto Feminist Network
- Women’s Equality Coalition
- Human Rights Commission of Missouri
- Amethyst Place