THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Bonnie Howard

“My career wouldn’t have happened if it hadn’t been for the women’s movement.”

Early member of NOW. Elected national treasurer  in 1973; created financial systems to handle the work of the three national NOW offices in Chicago, NYC and Washington, D.C. Board of NOW Legal Defense Fund 1979-1995, served as treasurer and president. Served as president and treasurer of her local Cape Ann/North Shore (MA) chapter of NOW. Founding member of the North Shore Coalition to Protect Choice in 2002. A convener of Women’s Action for New Directions North Shore, MA chapter. A.B. from Radcliffe College in 1956. M.B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1965: was the only woman in her class and one of the first woman graduates of the University of Michigan business school.

Interviewed by Mary Jean Collins, VFA Historian, November 2021