Patrinos (1941-2000) was a peace and social justice activist in Chicago. Born in Philadelphia, as a youth the worked with Youth Marches for Integrated School and with "Teens Ahead," which sponsored interracial dances at the YWCA, and later, she became the Communist Party USA's District Organizer for its Eastern Pennsylvania / Delaware district. Patrinos also served on the Party's National Committee. In 1991, the year of the fall of the Soviet Union, she joined the Committees of Correspondence, founded by dissident (democratic-socialist oriented) CPUSA members inspired by the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, and several U.S. leftists. In 1994 the organization changed its name to the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, and Patrinos served on its National Coordinating Committee.
From the guide to the Sandra Gordon Patrinos Papers, undated, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives)
