THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Karen Spindel
“Generations of Girls Were Lost to Math and Science.”
Mechanical Engineer. Organizer. Lifelong advocate fighting for equal rights and to end sex discrimination. Passaic County Chapter of NOW, longtime chapter coordinator and membership chair. Veteran Feminists of America, Data Manager.
Interviewed for Morris County NOW, New Directions for Women, by Rebecca Lubetkin, VFA Board
Photo 1. International Women’s Year March, New York City, 1977. Photo 2. Women’s Hall of Fame, 1986. Photo 3. Karen with her Mom and Daughter Samantha marching for pro-choice, Trenton, 1989. Photo 4. March for Women’s Lives, selling sweatshirts with her Mom, 1989. Photo 5. Karen, left and daughter Rachel holding banner for the Passaic County NOW Justice Concert, 1991. Photo 6. Karen, second to left, and daughter Rachel, far right, at a Rally, New York City, 2006.
More About Karen:
- VFA Fabulous Feminists Biography
- Oral History Interview, October 3, 2019, by Kate Rizzi, Rutgers Oral History Archives
- VFA Pioneer Feminist of the Month
- National Women’s Hall of Fame – Karen honored by her daughter, Samantha 2007
- Tau Beta Pi, The Engineering Honor Society – Karen Spindel, Women’s Badge number 573
- Select newspaper clippings
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – pages 436 – 437
