Shevy Evelyn Wallace Healey (January 29, 1922[1] – December 8, 2001) born Sewera Finkel,[2] was an American clinical psychologist, labor organizer, sleep researcher, and activist.

Healey was born in Poland and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Rose Spiegel Feldman.

[5] In 1976, she completed doctoral studies in psychology at Ohio State University, with a dissertation titled "The onset of chronic insomnia and the role of life-stress events".

"We no longer wish to collude in our own oppression by accommodating to language that implies in any way that 'old' means inferior, ugly, or awful.

[17] In 1998, she was a featured speaker at another national conference on aging issues in the LGBT community, at Fordham University.