Jean Tepperman, 1945-

Jean Tepperman was born in Syracuse, New York, on May 3, 1945, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1966. While in college she worked with Students for a Democratic Society at the Dudley Street Action Center in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Members of this group went on to form Mothers for Adequate Welfare, an organization that worked for changes in the welfare system. From 1966 to 1968, she was a member of JOIN (Jobs or Income Now) Community Union in Chicago, doing block organizing and other political work. A poet, writer, highschool teacher, parent and secretary, JT was active in the antiVietnamWar movement and a founder of Bread and Roses, one of the early women's liberation groups in Boston. More recently she was editor of the Dorchester Community News (19801984) and worked for the City Wide Educational Coalition Newsletter (CWEC) (19841986). Her poems have appeared in Lion Rampant and The Old Mole, as well as in Sisterhood Is Powerful, edited by Robin Morgan (New York: Random House, 1970).