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Elaine grew up on the outskirts of Boston in a second-generation Jewish working-class family. She spent the year between high school and college in Israel and entered Harvard/Radcliffe in 1961. In 1964 she went south to teach summer school at Tougaloo College and remained in Mississippi for a year, working with the Council of Federated Organizations.

Elaine was instrumental in developing movement strategies related to welfare rights and worked with Panola County farmers to organize and finance an okra cooperative that became a model for rural cooperatives in the black South. 

After leaving Mississippi, Elaine DeLott Baker spent several years in the New York counterculture. For 20 years, she and her husband Chip Baker lived in rural, Hispanic Colorado where she wrote grants and worked with community education projects, including a radio station that she and her husband built and operated. They now live in Denver where she directs workforce initiatives for the Community College of Denver.

Hear what Elaine says about what the movement taught her.   MP3   Real Audio

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