Portland, Ore. Advocate Cites Earlham

As a volunteer and now leader of the Breastfeeding Coalition of Oregon, Amelia Psmythe has pushed hospitals, lawmakers and businesses to make nursing easier and to raise awareness about the fact that mother's milk is the best thing for babies. 

Psmythe has an activist streak dating back to women's studies classes at Earlham College, the Quaker school in Indiana where she learned that, "the personal is political." 

Read the Oct. 27, 2009 column in the Portland Oregonian.