The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation has a full-time Executive Director and Executive Assistant/Office Manager, a part-time Assistant Director/Museum, 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 prior to joining the Gage Foundation in 2007. She has varied experience in 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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Assistant Director / Museum
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 completing a manuscript on the New York State anti-suffrage movement, she is an expert on women’s political and social movements.
