Editor Archives - Page 2 of 12

Geraldine Pindell Trotter

Associate editor of The Guardian, a newspaper dedicated to civil rights.

In 1951 she was one of the earliest women to be elected as an Associate of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and went to work for them from 1955-63 as a technical editor, despite her lack of formal technical qualifications.

Anne Newport Royall

Her four-page weekly newspaper, Paul Pry, later the Huntress, ran for twenty-five years and was described as a forerunner of the modern Washington gossip columns.

Annie Kriegel

During WWII, Annie Kriegel joined a Communist Resistance group at age fifteen because no other groups would admit a member so young.

Maude Trotter Steward

Assistant editor of The Guardian, a newspaper dedicated to civil rights

Pat Kelly

President of the Boston Culinary Historians and editor of their newsletter for over 20 years.

Pearl Young

The first female professional hired by NASA’s predecessor, NACA, in an age when most women in the government were constrained to staffing support positions such as secretaries or administrative aides.

Pauline Hopkins

Novelist Pauline Hopkins (1856-1930) edited The Colored American from 1900 to 1904; her goal was to publish a journal devoted to “the development of Afro-American art and literature.”