THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Jean Weinberg

“It wasn’t until 1972 that I really understood in a personal way why the women’s movement existed and why it mattered to me.”

Activist, community organizer, educator with over 40 years of experience in the public interest sector. Part of the first class of women at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire in 1972. Helped start the organization, Women at Dartmouth. Massachusetts Organization for Repeal of Abortion Laws (MORAL), NARAL. Planned Parenthood. Older Women’s League. Women’s Action For New Directions (WAND). Physicians for Social Responsibility. Cofounder of Jewish Multiracial Network.

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, March 2022