Activist Women's Voices: Oral History Project
Linking Communities and the University

  Gail Aska is a core member/leader, participant, and board member in the organization, Community Voices Heard, an organization that provides services and helps low income people living in poverty, especially women and families. The organization helps them learn how to and want to improve upon their lives. Welfare reform is the primary focus of the Community Voices Heard organization. Aska is also a board member on the Hunger Action Network of New York state, which is affiliated with Community Voices Heard. (brief interview)