In 2016, Kathleen Landy founded The Feminist Institute (TFI) to address educational inequities and make feminist primary source materials available online. When one’s work, voice, and story aren’t preserved and made accessible, they are forgotten, silenced, and made invisible. She was inspired by her difficulties locating feminist art history while writing her Master’s thesis at Villanova University, and by her dedication to championing women artists throughout her career.

Presently, TFI is a small, scrappy team of 3— our Archives + Program Manager, Allison Elliott, Strategic Development Consultant, Dena Muller, and our Founder, Kathleen Landy. We work to bring TFI’s mission to life: documenting and celebrating feminist contributions to cultureby preserving materials for public access in our digital archive; and promoting information activism and gender equity by infilling the cultural record to reflect fuller truths.