GSU Library Research Guides: Feminist Action Alliance History Project: E

Easterly, Anne (Deeley)

Interviewee: Anne Deeley Easterly
Interviewer: Tiffany Gray
Date of interview: November 14, 2023

Interviewee: Anne Deeley Easterly
Interviewer: Janet Paulk
Date of interview: May 20, 1999

Biography:
Born in 1948, Anne Deeley Easterly earned a B.A. in psychology and a M.A. in occupational psychology at the University of Kentucky before making her home in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been a champion of women's rights both as an activist and a businesswoman. In 1971 Deeley Easterly was hired by the General Services Administration to be an Equal Opportunity Specialist and her job was to audit companies to ensure government contractors hired minorities and women. Anne served as president of the Atlanta chapter of the Feminist Action Alliance, Inc., and as Steering Committee chairwoman in 1975. As a partner of Deeley-Fenton & Associates, Inc., an Atlanta-based career consultant firm, she was a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences, meetings, and seminars. In 1983 she was selected as one of the Outstanding Young People of Atlanta. As of 2000, Deeley Easterly was owner of Deeley Trimble & Company. She continues to volunteer for community organizations.

Anne Easterly Transcript, November 14, 2023

Eggbeer, Linda

Interviewee: Linda Barr Eggbeer
Interviewer: Tiffany Gray
Date of interview: September 25, 2023

Biography:
Linda (Barr) Eggbeer was born in 1946 in Mississippi, attended college in St. Charles, MO, and earned a Masters in Child Development at Towson State University, Towson, MD. She moved to Atlanta in 1972 and founded the Child Development Program at the Fulton County Health Dept. Linda served as president of Feminist Action Alliance in 1980, co-founded the Atlanta Women's Network, and was a member of Leadership Atlanta's Class of 1981. She moved to Chicago in 1982 and then to the Washington D.C. area in 1983. From 1988-2010 she was a senior staff member at ZERO TO THREE, a national nonprofit based in Washington, DC and devoted to focusing on the needs of children under three and their families.

Since her retirement, Linda has been an active community volunteer with Anne Arundel Women Giving Together, a women's collective philanthropy organization where she served as president in 2017. She has been a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for children in the child welfare system for 10 years and is currently president of the board of a nonprofit that works with second graders to improve their reading skills. She is active in her church and will begin serving on the governing council in July 2024. Linda has three grown sons and six grandchildren, all of whom live in the Washington, DC area.