Nancy Wechsler can be reached at: nwechsler@wellesley.edu

Although my parents named me Nancy, my friends call me Wec. I was a "red diaper" baby who grew up in Levittown, NY, in the 1950s and early 1960s. While at the University of Michigan, I became heavily involved in the newly formed Ann Arbor Tenants Union, the early women's and gay liberation movements, anti-Vietnam War protests, and student power movement. In 1971 I became the Coordinator for the Radical Independent Party. Soon after, that party joined the Human Rights Party and I was elected to the Ann Arbor City Council. During those two years HRP organized demonstrations, participated in strike support work, and used City Council meetings as a public forum for radical politics.

After finishing my term on City Council in 1974, I moved to the Boston area where I became involved in the Boston Women's Union, Somerville NAM (New American Movement), Gay Community News, and the Boston Grand Jury Project. I joined the Resist Foundation staff in 1986, and resigned in 1995. I am currently a member of the Resist board, a women's group which grew out of the Boston Women's Union, and an interracial families race/class discussion group at the public school my daughter Ella attends. I am the Office Manager for the Women's Review of Books.