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3 unusual facts about Ellen V. Futter


1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality

Days before the Conference itself, the then President of Barnard College, Ellen V. Futter, began receiving phone calls and letters from WAP and other groups against the premise of the Conference.The day before the conference was scheduled to begin, Barnard College officials—in response to phone calls from angry members of anti-pornography groups—confiscated 1500 copies of Diary of a Conference on Sexuality.

Ellen V. Futter

Ellen Victoria Futter (born September 21, 1949) is president of the American Museum of Natural History.

She formerly served as chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and chairman of the Commission on Women's Health of The Commonwealth Fund.



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