Kathy Engel
I think I first met Melanie when she was leading Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. My younger daughter, Jaja, was a newborn, in a snuggly, coming with me to …
Peter Persoff
Melanie and I were married and lived in Berkeley from 1969 to the early ’70s, while she was a grad student in Comparative Literature and I was a young engineer …
Dorothy Sue Cobble
Melanie changed my life. We first met in 1972 when as a UC Berkeley undergrad I signed up for the first Women’s Studies class ever taught on the campus and …
Lori Ubell
I remember Melanie from the lesbian-feminist community of Portland in the mid-1970s. Her intelligence shone with a fierce intensity and her book, We Speak In Code, was immensely important to …
Sherry Gorelick
What an amazing life! What a huge, many-faceted gift to us all! I’m not sure where I first met Melanie, but I think it was at a National Women’s Studies …
Sarah Swartz
I think of Melanie often. I was inspired by Melanie’s generosity to friends and strangers alike. We spent time together during the summer of 1991 when both of us attended …
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
I met Melanie decades ago, but we became friends and comrades when we were both teaching at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, in the mid-1990s. I remember endless passionate …
Olie Westheimer
I met Melanie in one of the Dance for PD classes, which Brooklyn Parkinson Group spawned, at Mark Morris Dance Center, and saw that she was always observing; not just …
John Berman
Without knowing me that well, Melanie hired me to help organize the second JFREJ (Jews for Racial and Economic Justice) conference back in the early ’90s. Over the years, I …
Marla Brettschneider
Thank you for this. She was so important to me and to so many. We wrapped up a special Jewish issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies right before Melanie …