Maxine Berman
Interview Summary
- Director of Special Projects in the Office of the Governor
- Grew up in Detroit, attended traditional Orthodox synagogue with mixed seating
- “Women ran campaigns and men had all the titles in terms of elected and party positions.”
- Women’s Health: Breast Cancer – informed consent legislation in Michigan State University
- Major role model was Millie Jeffrey
- Choice is a big issue – “Abortion has so many faces – being able to determine your future, and having a right over your own body.”
- “Don’t let politics be taken away from you.”
- “You have to be vigilant, or things slip away.”