Dr. Jeannine Herron

Dr. Jeannine Herron was born on January 19, 1937 in Berkeley, CA. She was raised by Quaker parents and has been active all her life in the peace movement. She met her husband, Civil Rights Movement photographer Matt Herron, while teaching in Ramallah, Jordan as a young 19-year old. After returning to the U.S., in 1963 she and her husband traveled with their two young children to Mississippi where they both worked in The Movement. Dr. Herron attended the funeral procession of Medgar Evers and covered the trial of his murderer for The Nation. Dr. Herron is a research neuropsychologist with expertise in dyslexia. She became interested in reading-related research in 1965 when she became co-founder and program director of the Child Development Group of Mississippi, a Head Start project.