THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Kathy Patrick
“The relationships are probably the biggest thing. The early realization that it’s a driving personal belief that a group of committed women can accomplish anything, if they organize and work at it. There’s nothing we can’t do.”
Trainer, Coach, Mentor. Leader in advocacy and public policy work on multiple women’s economic justice issues. President of Wisconsin NOW, 1984-1987. Field Director, Women Work!, 1987-1998.
Interviewed by Mary Jean Collins, VFA Historian, December 2021
More About Kathy:
- The Nonprofit Power Podcast, Kathy Patrick, Host
- Influencing Decision Makers for Nonprofit Leaders with Kathy Patrick, August 2020
- Veteran Feminists of America
- Sharing Our Stories, Durham, NC, 2017
- Panel three: Employment Activism, Feminist Activists: Noreen Connell, Lois Herr, Anne Ladky, Kathy Patrick (Kathy begins at 6:11:41)
- “Empowering Women: A Tale Of Two Generations” Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI September 15, 2012
- Judy introduces Muriel Fox, Heather Booth, David Clarenbach, Kathy Patrick, Mary Jean Collins. (Kathy begins at 50:24)
- Sharing Our Stories, Durham, NC, 2017
- NOW state conference held in Madison, August 1986
- A Gay Vision of the Business World, interview with Kathy Patrick (page 6) September, 1983
