Chris Riddiough & Margaret Schmid
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | Technical Trainer |
| Location | Washington, DC, United States |
| Introduction | Chris Riddiough (right) became involved in politics in the 1960s as an anti-Vietnam war activist. She moved to Chicago in 1968 and got involved in the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union. She worked on Liberation School and Blazing Star and was on the steering committee and staff of CWLU. She has also been active in the gay and lesbian movement. She moved to Washington in 1983 where she now teaches computer programming and statistics. Margaret Schmid (left) was in the CWLU WOMANKIND work group, the speaker's bureau, and served as steering committee co-chair. She worked with public sector unions, first as leader in a public university faculty union in Illinois and then as senior staff with a large state employee union in Ohio. She subsequently did health care advocacy work focused on quality, access, and affordability. Now retired, Margaret lives in Chicago. |
| Interests | Politics, computers, mystery books. |