THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Janet Selcer

“In Organizing, You Have to Take the Long View.”

Activist and grassroots organizer. Helped to launch 9to5 in 1973. Founded Steps to Success, which works with students living in public housing and their families to achieve educational equity, with the overarching goal of ending generational poverty. 

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, March 2023