THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Dr. Jane Delano Brown

“I thank the Goddess for being born when I was. For having opportunities, for having parents who also supported me and who thought I could do anything and who were always there.”

Social Scientist, Author, Professor. Bachelors Degree, University of Kentucky, 1972; Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1974; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1978.

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, March 2023

Photo 1. Jane, testifying at a state legislative hearing to liberalize the abortion law in Kentucky, 1971. Photo 2. As the Editor of The Kentucky Kernel, Jane ran this ad in the student campus daily in 1971. Photo 3. Jane in her first year of graduate school in Wisconsin, 1972.