Pam Smith

Pam Smith moved from California to Gainesville, Florida, in 1968, as a young wife and mother. She soon joined a women’s liberation, consciousness-raising group, which changed her life. In 1974, she went to work at the Gainesville Women’s Health Center, where she came in contact with the growing, out-Lesbian community, which she joined.

In the following years, Pam Smith was a leader in fighting for awareness of child sexual abuse, environmental degradation, and abortion rights. She also fights against the ideology of white oppression. After the presidential election of 2016, Pam Smith became a local leader of the Women’s March. For that march, she organized five busloads of women from Gainesville, Florida, to Washington, D.C., for the largest protest for women’s rights in U.S. history.