Martha Chickering

[1] She was a member of the Chickering family of Massachusetts, later Oakland and Piedmont, California.

[2] She attended the NYC YWCA Training School from 1911 until 1913 after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1910.

[1] From 1918 to 1920, Chickering headed the Polish Grey Samaritans (founded by Laura de Turczynowicz),[3] YWCA's efforts on post-war reconstruction in newly-formed Poland under the Herbert Hoover-founded American Relief Association.

[1] After retiring in 1945, Martha moved to the Mojave Desert outside Victorville, California and continued writing.

[1] In 1994, the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare established the Martha Chickering Fellowship.