Susan Schechter (1 May 1946 – 3 February 2004) was an American feminist and activist against domestic violence.
She wrote three books on the subject and helped found one of the first women's shelters.
[5] She moved to New York City in 1978, working briefly for the Henry Street Settlement before moving to the Park Slope Safe Homes Project in Brooklyn and then, in 1982, to the Women's Education Institute in New York.
[2][6] In 2002, the University of Iowa's Celebration of Excellence Among Women gave her their Distinguished Achievement Award.
[7] Her papers are held in the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.