[2] Raven earned an Artium Baccalaureatus from Hood College in Maryland in 1965, then went on to complete graduate study.

[4] In 1973, Raven co-founded the Feminist Studio Workshop with Judy Chicago and Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.

[5] The goal of the Feminist Studio Workshop, an independent art school ultimately housed in the Los Angeles Woman's Building, was to "come together as a community of working individuals whose work grows out of our shared experiences as women and our shared social context," and an emphasis was put on "cooperation, collaboration, and sisterhood.

[10] In addition to the Feminist Studio Workshop, Raven also taught at the California Institute of the Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, Parsons The New School for Design, UCLA, University of Southern California and The New School for Social Research.

[3] She was survived by her father, her sister Phyllis [Gelman], and Nancy Grossman, her life partner of 23 years.