THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Dr. Julia Chang Wan
“I Wanted to Be an Independent, Accomplished Person, Rather than Being Known as Somebody’s Wife.”
Educator. Women’s Rights Advocate. Policy Maker and Changer. National Organization for Women Boston Chapter, President Eastern Massachusetts. National NOW Board. 80-20 National Asian-American PAC.
Interviewed by Rosemary Trowbridge, August 2019
Photo 1. MLC School, Sydney, Australia – Netball Team, 1956 (girls’ basket ball without dribbling). Julia is 2nd from the left. Photo 2. Watertown High School, Massachusetts, Teaching Physics, 1972. Photo 3. Frederic and Julia Wan, Heidelberg, Germany, 2019.
More About Julia:
- Julia Wan Boston Chapter of NOW Papers – Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
- Chapter 622: Massachusetts Law, Women, and Vocational Education: Final Report – Sept. 1975 . Julia cited – pg 218 and pg 240.
- Selected newspaper clippings, 1971 – 1972
- 80-20 National Asian American PAC