Nancy Sarah Kurshan (born February 4, 1944, in Brooklyn, NY) is an American activist, raised as a "red diaper baby", and best known for being a founder of the Youth International Party (whose members were popularly known as Yippies).
During her college years in Madison, Wisconsin, she was a member of Friends of SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and CORE, and participated in the first demonstration against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C., in April 1965.
She dropped out to join Rubin in New York where they worked for the Mobe (National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam) on the 1967 demo to shut down the Pentagon.
In 1970 Kurshan traveled to North Vietnam on an all-women's trip that included Judy Gumbo and Jeanne Plamandon of the White Panther Party.
She has also authored a popular analysis called "Women And Imprisonment in the United States", which has appeared in countless texts and books about prisons and repression,[citation needed] and in 2013, the Freedom Archives published Out of Control, her book about the battle to end control unit prisons.