Sue Rumph

Sue Rumph describes herself as an activist who uses teaching as her current method of activism. A primary focus of her energy is to empower activists to get involved and participate in social change. She has been involved in many aspects of women's studies since the early 1990s. She has served on the Wayne State Women's Studies Advisory Board and was a founder of the Women's Studies Student Association.

Women's Rights

She has been involved with the National Organization for Women for over 10 years. As a graduate student, she conducted research on the relationship between black and white members of NOW entitled Black and White NOW Members Talk about the Racial Diversification of the National Organization for Women. Her master's thesis examines the history of race relations in NOW, the reasons why members became involved in the organization and members definitions of feminism. She recently served as the Vice President of Action for Michigan NOW. Working with NOW has provided opportunities to network with many women's organizations in Michigan and Nationally. Rumph has photo documented NOW since 1995 and has had photos published in the National NOW Times, the NOW web site, and NOW literature.

Women's Studies

Rumph currently teaches for the Women's Studies Program at Oakland University. She teaches Introduction to Women's Studies, Feminist Methods, Organizing Skills for the Women's Movement, and Women in Transition. She is teaching She serves on the WS Executive Board at Oakland University. Rumph is also the faculty advisor for the OU student organizations, Women's Issues Forum, Students for Choice, and NOW's Campus Action Network. She believes that working with students is exciting, rewarding and increases her energy level. She serves on the Michigan Women's Studies board of directors.

Sue Rumph Productions, LLC

Recently Rumph formed Sue Rumph Productions, LLC to produce documentary film and books to empower and teach people grassroots organizing skills. Her first film, Voices from the Street: Countdown to a March not only documents the March for Women's Lives 2004, but also shows behind the scenes footage of some of what it takes to organize an action of over 1 million people. She is currently preparing to do a documentary of the history of NOW. House parties! Contact RSB about a Voices House Party!

Screaming Sisterhood

One of her endeavors is to connect young activists to one another in order to share experiences and grassroots organizing skills. Rumph believes we can achieve progress in equal, civil, and human rights by building an active, useful network with one another. She is using her page at MySpace (Sue Rumph) to create a meeting ground for activists. There you will see Sue Rumph's Screaming Sisterhood, which is named not only for screaming for equality but to describe the screaming pace at which activists work. She is also available for workshops on using the internet as an activist and mentoring tool.

Topics
	Women's Rights, Women's Studies, How to mentor the next generation of women leaders, Racial Diversity and NOW, Using the Inernet as an activist & mentoring tool, the Ins and Outs of making an Indie Film. See Fem Ed Media for more topics.

Feminist Education Media
	Speeches and workshops on Leadership mentoring - The How To's of Campus Organizing How to Archive the History of an Orgnanization - Organizing an Oral History Project.