Naomi Jaffe

Naomi Esther Jaffe (born June 1943) is a former undergraduate student of Herbert Marcuse and member of the Weather Underground Organization.

Jaffe was born in upstate New York on a small family farm run by her Jewish parents.

[5] After high school, she went on to attend Brandeis University and studied Marxism in a few classes with the professor and political theorist Herbert Marcuse.

[7] While in the SDS, Jaffe worked for the independent publication New Left Notes and published an article about equal rights for women called "The Look Is You" coauthored with Bernardine Dohrn.

[6] In 1969, as a member and leading feminist[9] of the SDS, Jaffe traveled with a group of people to Hanoi to talk to Vietnamese students and others about the US antiwar movement.

[10] In 1969, the SDS was heading in a more radical direction and Jaffe became one of the founding members of the Weatherman Organization, yet never became a leader.

[12] As quoted by historian Dan Berger, Jaffe says the Weather Underground was "the most vital show in town.

Having continued a life of activism, Jaffe has worked on a local Free Mumia Committee[1] and she is also the former Executive Director of the organization Holding Our Own, an anti-racist women's funding foundation.