The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation has a full-time Executive Director and Executive Assistant/Office Manager, a part-time Project Coordinator/Grants Writer, and a freelance Event Planning Consultant. More than 80 volunteers, interns and groups locally and nationally allow us to do an amazing amount of work with a small staff.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D.
One of the first women to receive a doctorate for work in women’s studies in the United States (UC Santa Cruz, 1978), Dr. Wagner is also a founder of one of the country’s first women’s studies programs at California State University, Sacramento (1970). A women’s studies faculty member for 39 years, she is currently adjunct faculty in the Honors Program at Syracuse University. Wagner is the nation’s foremost authority on Matilda Joslyn Gage.
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EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT / OFFICE MANAGER
Heidi Stephens
Ms. Stephens worked in educational publishing as a writer, editor, and manager for 18 years before joining the Gage Foundation in 2007. For much of that time, she was senior and managing editor of a weekly current events publication. She has prior experience developing corporate communications materials and working in nonprofit organizations as both a staff member and volunteer. She holds a B.S. in newspaper journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
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PROJECT COORDINATOR / GRANTS WRITER
Susan Goodier, Ph.D.
Dr. Goodier holds a doctorate in U.S. public policy history (2007), as well as master’s degrees in gender history (1999) and women’s studies (2008) from the University at Albany. Currently teaching courses at SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica, she is an expert on the history of woman suffrage.
