- Public health nurse and political activist
- She married Fred Keller in 1939. Their daughter is Joan Keller Selznick.
- One of the few women to serve in the anti-fascist Lincoln Battalion (Abraham Lincoln Brigade) during the Spanish Civil War.
- Mother was an organizer of garment workers in New York and San Francisco and began taking her to picket lines when she was 4.
- In 1997 she was honored by the Spanish government for her service as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. She was made an honorary citizen.
- Led students to Mississippi to register black voters in the 1960s and later organizing migrant workers in California.
- Her filmmaker daughter In the 1980s encouraged her to move her social justice activities into the film medium. She proceeded to make documentaries, totaling 21 films on health, geriatrics, the women's movement and other political issues.
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