#ellen starr

Ellen Gates Starr was a US American activist and social reformer.

In 1889, she founded Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, with her lover Jane Addams, located in working class and poor neighbourhoods. It served as a centre for social reform and as a community of university women whose main purpose was to provide social and educational opportunities for working class children and people, many of whom were recent European immigrants.

She took part of campaigns to reform child labour laws and workers' rights. She was a member of the Women's Trade Union League and as such helped organise a number of strikes.

Grounds for Health Appoints Ellen Starr as Executive Director

Vermont-based nonprofit Grounds for Health, which has run cervical cancer and prevention programs in coffee-growing communities for more than two decades, has announced the appointment of Ellen Starr as executive...