Kathleen Sullivan Alioto (born June 20, 1944) is an American educator and politician who served on the Boston School Committee as a member (1974–79)[1] and its president (1977).
... By taking a look at Kathleen Sullivan’s role in the move to desegregate Boston Public Schools, we gain an often overlooked narrative because of how she did not quite fit in with her contemporaries at the time.
She was a Democratic Party primary election candidate for the United States Senate in Massachusetts in 1978, finishing third.
[16][17] Sullivan Alioto served as executive director of the Foundation of the City College of San Francisco.
[5] Because Alioto was divorced, the wedding was performed by excommunicated Catholic priest and activist Joseph O'Rourke.