These Notes Reach Us Jazz Women Back

Catherine Lee
11 min readDec 20, 2020

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Prologue

In 1975, as a twenty-something administrative assistant at a research arm of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, I joined three other MIT employees to start a newspaper for women called Sojourner. The chief editor, Allison Platt, received exclusive credit for founding the rag. But guess what? Sojourner would have gone nowhere without the fingers of the woman who set type for…

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Catherine Lee

creates collaborative educational media. Lee explores social change activism and percussive jazz by performing with improvising musicians “on poem” or solo.