THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Elayne Archer
“Feminism is dynamic. It’s an act in progress. It relies on each generation to take the work forward.”
Educator. Author. Editor. Women’s Health Collective. HealthRight: Women’s Health Forum. Older Women Remember and Speak Out.
Interviewed by Judy Waxman, September 2021


Photo 1. Crossing Troubled Waters: The Memoir of an English War Widow, by Elayne Grant Archer. Photo 2. Who’s On Today? Life in a Brooklyn Commune, February 2022, by Elayne Grant Archer.
More About Elayne:
- Elayne Grant Archer’s website
- Interview with Elayne Grant on her book Crossing Troubled Waters, Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1966, May 26, 2021
- “Phyllis Archer, First Lady of Fournier St,” February 4, 2020
- Older Women Remember & Speak Out (OWRS) website
- “Texas’ ‘Appalling’ New Abortion Law,” New York Times, September 14, 2021
- Elayne Archer is interviewed by Emma Clark at the Park Slope Library on February 18, 2016.