Hilda Worthington Smith

(1888 - 1984)

Born in New York City, Hilda Worthington Smith served as dean of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry; from there she jumped to the federal government and spent her entire career creating worker education programs across the country. During the New Deal, she served as an education expert for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Works Progress Administration, and she also played a role in the establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps’ camps for unemployed women, known as the “She-She-She Camps.”

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