About the Authors
Sushawn Robb began her organizing career while still in junior high school, organizing fellow students to participate in the first Earth Day activities. In the years since, she has been involved in many campaigns and organizations, including Seattle Reproductive Rights Alliance, Committee for Justice for Gene Viernes and Silme Domingo, Alliance Against Women’s Oppression, Line of March, Venceremos Brigade, Queer Nation (SF), CrossRoads, Committees of Correspondence and War Times. She has been a friend of the S.F. Women’s Building since 1981, serving on the Board of Directors from 1994 to 2000, and working with the Women’s Building History Project from 2002 to the present. She currently works as a Park Ranger for a regional park system in the S.F. Bay Area.
Mercilee M Jenkins is Professor of Communications and Performance Studies at San Francisco State University, poet, performer and a produced playwright. Previous plays include Two-Bit Tango, A Credit to Her Country and Menopause and Desire. She is co-editor of Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life, an anthology of essays and performance pieces published in 2007. She received the Lesley Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance from the National Communication Association in acknowledgement of her groundbreaking work. Her short story The Day Mel Tourme Died was published in an Sister's Born, Sisters Found, a Diversity of Voices on Sisterhood, edited by Laura McHale Holland.
Mercilee M Jenkins is Professor of Communications and Performance Studies at San Francisco State University, poet, performer and a produced playwright. Previous plays include Two-Bit Tango, A Credit to Her Country and Menopause and Desire. She is co-editor of Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life, an anthology of essays and performance pieces published in 2007. She received the Lesley Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance from the National Communication Association in acknowledgement of her groundbreaking work. Her short story The Day Mel Tourme Died was published in an Sister's Born, Sisters Found, a Diversity of Voices on Sisterhood, edited by Laura McHale Holland.
