THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Stephanie Clohesy

“It’s pretty interesting to live long enough where you can see the morphing of ideas in your own lifetime.”

Lifelong volunteer for local, national and global causes. Executive director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, 1977–1983. Board member of NOW LDEF, 1985–1990. Founder and principal of Clohesy Consulting, an organizational development firm offering a broadband of planning, research and design services to philanthropic foundations and to national and international nonprofit institutions. Founding member of Iowa Women’s Foundation. Founder of See What I Mean. 

Interviewed by Mary Jean Collins, VFA Historian, January 2024