The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation has a full-time Executive Director and an Associate Director of Operations. 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 41 years, she is currently adjunct faculty in the Honors Program at Syracuse University. Wagner is the nation’s foremost authority on Matilda Joslyn Gage.