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Emily Greene Balch

Emily Greene Balch

January 8, 1867 –January 9, 1961

Economist, Pedagogue, University teacher, Sociologist, Trade unionist, Journalist

Lived 94 years

Born in
Jamaica Plain
Passed away in
Cambridge

Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist. Balch combined an academic career at Wellesley College with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty, child labor, and immigration, as well as settlement work to uplift poor immigrants and reduce juvenile delinquency.

She moved into the peace movement at the start of World War I in 1914, and began collaborating with Jane Addams of Chicago. She became a central leader of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) based in Switzerland, for which she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946, sharing the win with John Mott.

Awards: Nobel Peace Prize Education: Bryn Mawr College, University of Chicago, Wellesley College

Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Greene_Balch