Women Over 70: Aging Reimagined
Helen Shiller, age 75, was a six-term alderperson in Chicago’s poor and oppressed communities where she advocated for radical changes to police misconduct, poverty, and racism. Starting in the early 1970s, Helen’s activism took a page from the Black Panther Party’s 10 Point Program. Fifty years later she concluded her book—Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago’s Uptown Community—with the Party’s 10 Point Guide to Action. Upon leaving the City Council, Helen teamed up with her lawyer son to create the West Side Center for Justice. She loves this stage of her life and finds great joy in metal welding.
