Gudrun Løchen Drewsen

A competent organizer and strategist, she was one of the founders and principal figures in New York's Norwegian Suffrage League.

She also moved to the capital later, living with her mother-in-law while studying painting with Erik Werenskiold, Christian Krogh and Hans Heyerdahl.

In 1902, the Norwegian women's rights activist Fredrikke Qvam asked Drewsen to represent Norway at the Washington Suffrage Conference.

After speaking at the conference and meeting the leading figures there, she went on to become the internationally recognized coordinator of Norwegian-American interests in the women's movement.

[1] Drewsen proved to be an efficient organizer and strategist, recruiting new members, planning signature campaigns and participating in demonstrations on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.