Jeanne Farr McDonnell

Jeanne Farr McDonnell has attended Stephens College, Ohio State University, University of Brussels on a Fulbright Scholarship, Columbia University for an M.A. in American literature, an intensive journalism course at Stanford University over one semester, and many continuing studies classes at Stanford. She was born in Akron, Ohio, and lived in New York and Pennsylvania before settling in Palo Alto, California. After various jobs in the newspaper and publishing business, she entered the...See more

Jeanne Farr McDonnell has attended Stephens College, Ohio State University, University of Brussels on a Fulbright Scholarship, Columbia University for an M.A. in American literature, an intensive journalism course at Stanford University over one semester, and many continuing studies classes at Stanford. She was born in Akron, Ohio, and lived in New York and Pennsylvania before settling in Palo Alto, California. After various jobs in the newspaper and publishing business, she entered the nonprofit sector, serving on the boards of nine organizations and acting as the executive director of three. As the founder and executive director of the Women's Heritage Museum, now the International Museum of Women in San Francisco, McDonnell first learned about Juana Briones, helped over several years to manage public and school tours of her house in Palo Alto, and worked to preserve that house. See less