Alice Embree is a nationally known and respected writer and activist. First drawn into the fight against segregation in the 1960s, she became a leader of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at the University of Texas. She helped launch Austin’s underground newspaper The Rag, researched and wrote for the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) in New York, and contributed to the 1970 anthology Sisterhood is Powerful, edited by Robin Morgan. She was featured in the 2001 documentary Rebels with a Cause directed by Helen Garvy and in the 2018 documentary by UT’s College of Liberal Arts, Fight Like a Girl: How Women’s Activism Shapes History.
Alice has written for the Texas Observer, the Rag Blog, and Collective Impressions. She is an editor of the acclaimed 2016 book Celebrating The Rag: Austin’s Iconic Underground Newspaper, and a book of her poetry, Looking Glass, was published in 2018.
She received a BA and Master of Science degrees in Community and Regional Planning from UT Austin. The Briscoe Center is home to the Alice Embree Papers.
Alice Embree
