Staff & Board Members
"Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
--- Margaret Mead, Cultural Anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
National Women's History Project Staff
Molly Murphy MacGregor
Executive Director and Co-Founder, President of the NWHP Board of Directors
Molly is a former high school social studies teacher who has worked for over 30 years in the field of gender equity and women’s history. MacGregor conducts women’s history workshops and women’s historic sites tours throughout the country. She also works with state and national agencies on strategies and programs to help acknowledge and recognize the historic contributions of women. Her work in the field of multicultural women’s history has been widely recognized including awards from the National Education Association, the US Department of Education, the National Association for Multicultural Education, and the Association for Gender Equity Leadership in Education Leadership. Molly is accessible via email at ednasmolly@aol.com
Shona Rocco
Financial Manager
Shona worked as a Claims Representative at Farmers Insurance for four years before joining our team. She came to the project in 2002 bringing with her a strong background in bookkeeping and a positive attitude. Thanks to Shona we are up to date with all reconciliations and financial obligations, along with lending her hand for general office duties, customer service, mailings, and shipping. Shona is a proud mother of a teenage daughter, Jessica. Contact Shona at shona@nwhp.org.
Vicki Dougan
Graphic Designer and Marketing Consultant
Vicki began her career as a high school English teacher in PA, and has a diverse background that includes writing newletters, sales, promotional marketing and graphic design. For the past five years, Vicki has worked closely with the NWHP staff providing logo mechandise and designing graphics for the 2006 and 2007 theme posters and related materials. Vicki participated in the first annual Equality Day Parade in Sacramento, and is a NWHP Network Member. She currently serves on the board of the Cotati Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and Promotional Marketing Association of Northern CA. Contact Vicki at vicki@salespromotionusa.com
Anna Boyadjieva
Web Site Administrator
Anna is currently an Interactive Designer at Staples® Corporate. She graduated from Northeastern University in 2006, with a degree in Multimedia Studies/Graphic Design. She approached NWHP with a proposal to redesign their website as part of her Senior Honors Project. Additionally, Anna is currently working on NWHP website updates. She has always had an interest in women's studies and history and has been involved in the movement since high school. Contact Anna at anna.boyadjieva@gmail.com.
Volunteer Staff - The "We Can Do It!" Team
Millie Burt
Hinda Groner
National Women's History Project Board of Directors
Jean Bowling has been a feminist activist for the last 35 years. From 1975 to 1980 she was newsletter editor and fundraiser for the Anne Arundel County National Organization for Women. She was appointed to the Anne Arundel County Commission for Women in 2001 and was a Commissioner until 2004. From 1986 to 1991 she served on the National Capital YMCA Operations Committee, which provided guidance for management decisions. Jean has worked in law for over 40 years, first as a secretary then as a legal assistant. She earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Maryland and graduated from the Paralegal Program at George Washington University. She is a licensed real estate broker in D.C. and Maryland and from 1987 to 1992 had her own brokerage company, selling and managing real estate for investors. Using her brokerage skills she purchased several apartments and furnished them, creating a thriving interim housing market for the Metropolitan DC area. For the last six years, she has been Legal Assistant for a judge on Maryland’s highest court.
Renee Chanon is a former president of the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles and also served on the Board of Directors of the League of Women Voters of California. Renee is currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles Education Fund. She served for 10 years as a member of the Ballot Simplification Committee for the City of Los Angeles. Renee has worked as a community relations and public affairs consultant for Braun Ketchum and Greer/Dailey Minter Public Affairs, managing public affairs activities for a wide variety of clients. Renee has written and performs in a women’s history program, which tells the story of how American women fought for and WON the right to vote.
Robert P. J. Cooney is the author of “Winning the Vote,” a photographic history of the American woman suffrage movement. Director of the Woman Suffrage Media Project since 1993, he has spent years delving deep into the nation’s photographic archives and has also consulted on numerous documentary films, books, and special projects. Co-author with Helen Michalowski of “The Power of the People: Active Nonviolence in the United States,” Bob designed and created several publications for the National Women’s History Project including posters, timeline display sets, and the popular 1995 gazette “Women Win the Vote,” which prompted national recognition of the 75th anniversary of women winning the ballot. Cooney’s work is in the tradition of American men who have supported women’s equality and independence and works to promote the idea that women’s accomplishments are an important part of American history.
Gracia Molina de Pick aka Gracia Molina Enriquez has been a progressive feminist activist for over 60 years in both Mexico and the U.S. As faculty at Mesa College, she founded and wrote the curricula for the first A.A. Degree in Chicana/Chicano Studies that appeared in the Plan de Aztlan, the 1970 blueprint for Higher Education for Mexican Americans in the country. Gracia was the founding Faculty of the Third College at UCSD where she developed the undergraduate sequence for Third World Studies and is a former Commissioner of California Post-Sec. Education Commission 1976-80
In 1970, she founded several organizations including the Comision Femenil Mexicana Nacional, the first national feminist Chicana Association, the Chicana Caucus Chair of the Natl. Women's Political Caucus 1970, and the National Council of La Raza, the first Civil Rights Advocate group for Mexican American Civil Rights 1969-1977. She was also the national organizer for the Chicana participation at the U.N. World Conferences on Women, where she also was a presenter and workshop coordinator at the Tribune and Forums 1975-80-85-2000.
She published the first theoretical article on Chicana Feminism presented at the National Chicana Houston Conference in 1971 and was an organizer and promoter of the l977 Houston National Women's Conference. She has also published numerous articles and is the co-author of two books being published in the summer of 2006 by the Salsipuedes feminist editorial.
Carol Griffith has worked with the Department of Veterans Affairs for 22 years. Since 1986 her position has included collateral duties as a Federal Women's Program Manager. She was a recipient of the Federal Women of the Year Award in 2001in the GS 1-7 category; a recipient of the John E. Foley Award in 2003 for Collateral Duty Assignment and served as President of the Federal Women's Program Network from 2002 -2004. A Founding Member of the Buffalo Chapter of the Friends of the National Women's Rights Historical Park, Carol also serves on the Board of the Western New York (WNY) Sister to Sister Connection and is a member of the WNY Women's History Planning Committee; the WNY Women's Hall of Fame; the Bricks for Buffalo student essay contest planning committee; the WNY Women's Action Coalition and a Friend of the Buffalo AAUW Branch.
M. Lee Hunt is a family law attorney in Marin County, CA. She has practiced there for 25 years. Lee was born and raised in Michigan and is a U of M graduate. Lee was radicalized by the Viet Nam war and began her feminist activism in Marin in 1970 as head of Marin NOW. She helped found the Marin Women's PAC and was chair of the Marin Women's Commission. She co-founded the Family Law Center for Women and Children and has chaired the Marin County Women Lawyers organization. Lee helped found Collaborative Lawyers of Marin in 1990 and has been active in promoting alternative dispute resolution in the family law area. She now lives on a ranch in Sonoma County with her partner and her Border Collie.
Molly Murphy MacGregor is President and Co-founder of the National Women’s History Project. She is a former high school social studies teacher who has worked for over 30 years in the field of gender equity and women’s history. MacGregor conducts women’s history workshops and women’s historic sites tours throughout the country. She also works with state and national agencies on strategies and programs to help acknowledge and recognize the historic contributions of women. Her work in the field of multicultural women’s history has been widely recognized including awards from the National Education Association, the US Department of Education, the National Association for Multicultural Education, and the Association for Gender Equity Leadership in Education Leadership.
Dr. Lisa L. Ossian teaches history at Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny Iowa. She also serves on the Iowa State Historical Society Board of Trustees, the Humanities Iowa Speakers’ Bureau, the Organization of American Historians’ Committee on Community Colleges, and the National Education Association’s editorial board for Thought & Action. Her current research topic is children during the Second World War and has published essays on this topic as well as Iowa during the Great Depression. Her three daughters help keep her focused on the continuing need for women’s history.
Kimberly Salter, Ph.D. is an Organizational Psychologist and Marriage Family Therapist in partnership with Dr. Santiago Estrada (her husband) they co-founded Santiago Estrada & Associates (S.E.A.) an employee assistance and management resource company in 1983. Kimberly has given talks and presentations on Women’s ‘Herstory’ for the past 15 years. She is past president of the California National Organization for Women and currently sits on the board of the Center for Global Peace & Prosperity in Laguna Beach, CA. Dr. Salter has facilitated many conferences, locally, statewide and nationally. She was chair of the CA NOW State Conference in 1999; co-chair of “Girls 2000: Choices and Dreams” Orange County, CA; co-chair of the 2001 Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) National Conference “Embracing Diversity: A Feminist Odyssey”; co-chair V-Day Laguna Beach 2003 and 2004; and she has appeared as Eleanor Roosevelt in “Women Making a Difference”. Kimberly has traveled around the state and the United States as a speaker, workshop presenter, and forum facilitator on subjects ranging from psychological well-being and empowerment to women’s herstory and women’s rights. She has served on many boards locally and statewide over the past 25 years and is a member of almost every progressive and feminist organization that exists. Closest to her heart (along with her husband of 24 years) are her three grandsons.
Marielle Tsukamoto was born in Sacramento, California on April 7, 1937 To Alfred and Mary Tsukamoto. Alfred Tsukamoto raised grapes and strawberries on on small farm. In 1942 all persons of Japanese ancestry 120,000, were ordered off the west coast. Marielle and her family went to an internment camp in Jermone, Arkansas taking only what they could carry. After the war, families were allowed to leave the camps. The Tsukamotos were among the fortunate few able to return to their farm. A friend, Bob Fletcher worked the land, paid the taxes and the mortgage and returned the farm to Alfred Tsukamoto. Mary Tsukamoto fulfilled a life-long dream to become a teacher. Motivated by her mother's love of teaching Marielle graduated from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California with a BA in education and began teaching in 1959. She devoted her life to a profession she loved. She taught in an military dependent's school in Japan for one year, spent 24 years teaching in San Jose before returning to her home town as a vice principal and principal of an elementary school in Elk Grove, California. Marielle retired in 2001. She worked as the Project Director of Educational Programs for the Anti-Defamation League from 2001-2003. During this time she continued to support an important education program started by Mary Tsukamoto, to teach children about the internment of the Japanese Americans and the loss of their civil rights during WWII. 6,000 students learn that in a Democracy it is important to protect and defend our Constitutional rights.
Linda J. Wharton teaches Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties in the Political Science Department of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. From 1989 until 1997, she served as the Managing Attorney of the Women's Law Project, a public interest law firm located in Philadelphia, where she specialized in litigation and law reform relating to gender discrimination. She served as lead co-counsel in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a challenge to Pennsylvania's restrictive abortion law, which was decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1992. She also serves as a consultant on issues of gender equity in education and teaches courses in sex discrimination at Penn Law School and in the Women's Studies Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Linda Wharton graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1977 and from Rutgers Law School with a J.D. in 1981.
Margaret Zierdt earned a BA from Penn State University and MEds from University of Maryland and the University of Hawaii and was a public school teacher for 30 years. As a grad student in 1972 she examined sex roles in classic first grade literature and found great inequalities between female and male characters in these greatly loved stories. In a random selection of picture books published in 1970 and 1971 she found the same pattern of presenting female characters unable to solve problems. She worked on her school system's Title IX Self-Evaluation project which documented failure to meet Title IX standards in many areas, including athletic and sports programs, enrolment of girls in math and science courses, and recruitment programs for administrative assignments. As a member of the Title IX committee, she made many recommendations to the school board to achieve compliance with Title IX rules. She participated in a statewide program for guidance counselors to promote awareness of Title IX regulations. She also taught a course for staff development on women in the western world. As a member of AAUW she has given programs and written newsletter articles on women's history. In 1985 she researched and published a poster listing over 1000 American women of note by day of birth. This Celebrate Women poster has been updated and is carried by the NWHP.