Alison Baker is a writer and oral historian living in New York City. It's Good To Be a Woman: Voices from Bryn Mawr, Class of '62 is her second book. Baker has lived through the same ups and downs faced by the rest of her classmates. In the sixties, she joined the foreign service, married and had children. In the seventies, she joined a consciousness-raising group, divorced, earned a PhD, and forged a career in academic administration.

Baker took up oral history in her fifties and It's Good To Be a Woman is her second book. She is available for talks and presentations on either book, feminism, or the process of documenting oral history. Her first book is Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women.

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