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Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) was a lifelong activist for peace. She attended Bryn Mawr, a women's college near Philadelphia. She taught economics and sociology at Wellesly College for nearly twenty years, but was eventually fired for opposing World War I. After the war, Ms. Balch and a group of women founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, an organization of which she became the secretary-treasurer. She also became the president of the American section of WILPF after establishing branches in more than fifty countries. Emily Greene Balch won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.

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