[1] She was a member of the prominent anti-Vietnam War groups Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Weatherman and the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF).

[4] It was reprinted in September 2007 by Rutgers University Press, with an introduction by Laura Browder, as part of the series Subterranean Lives.

Stern died of drug-related heart and lung failure on July 31, 1976, at University Hospital in Seattle, at the age of 33.

Stern finished her undergraduate work as a Liberal Arts Major and immediately began her Master's study in Urban Education.

"[8] In 1966, Susan and Robert Stern drove across country, relocated to Seattle, and enrolled in advanced studies at the University of Washington School of Social Work.

The important thing about the New Politics Convention for Robby and me was that we came in contact with other white radical organizers, among them, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

At the convention, there was great discussion of the Weatherman paper and arguments among the various chapters of SDS and other activists such as the Black Panther Party erupted throughout the meeting.

[13] According to Maurice Isserman's review of Stern's 1975 memoir: Stern ... makes it painfully clear that her own self-loathing and self-destructive bent had much to do with her joining Weatherman (she made one suicide attempt as a child, another in her Seattle days and eventually succumbed in 1976 to a combination of drugs and alcohol that may have constituted a final successful attempt).