Elisabeth Griffith earned her PhD from The American University and an undergraduate degree from Wellesley College. She has been a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics and a Klingenstein Fellow at Columbia Teachers College. Dr. Griffith has spent her career working for women's rights as an activist and an academic, teaching women's history at the secondary and college level and has written forThe New York Times, The Washington Post, and professional journals. She is currently teaching courses in women's history at the Smithsonian Associates and Politics & Prose. She is the author of In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, which was the inspiration for Ken Burns' PBS documentary, Not For Ourselves Alone.