Susan O’Malley was one of the founders of the Radical Teacher in 1975. She is Professor Emerita, City University of NY, where she taught composition, Shakespeare, Women’s Studies, and Liberal Studies (Kingsborough, Graduate Center) for 37 years. The recipient of Fulbright, NEH, Huntington, and Folger Library grants, she has published in early modern women’s studies (Custome is an Idiot: Jacobean Pamphlets on Women (University of Illinois Press), disability, higher education, and civil rights. She was on the executive committee of the Professional Staff Congress for 9 years and Chair of the CUNY Faculty Senate for 4 years. For the last 11 years she has served on the Executive Committee of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women at the UN. She plays cello in the UN Symphony Orchestra.