Heather Booth is an activist.^[1]

She was a Freedom Summer volunteer.^[2]

She was one of the founders of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union, a feminist organization founded in 1969 at a conference in Palatine, Illinois.^[3][4][5]

In 1972 "Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement," which is believed to be the first publication to use the term "socialist feminism," was published; it was by her and other members of the Hyde Park Chapter of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (specifically Heather Booth, Day Creamer, Susan Davis, Deb Dobbin Robin Kaufman, and Tobey Klass).^[6]

Booth was interviewed as part of the documentary Freedom on My Mind (1994).^[7]

She was the first president of Citizen Action, which was formed in 1980 as a federation of state groups in Ohio, Oregon, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Illinois, with a national office in Washington, D.C.^[8] .^[9] In late 1999, she founded a new national organization, USAction, that has purposes and structure somewhat similar to Citizen Action.^[10] USAction includes some of the same state affiliates, which carry on the "Citizen Action" name.^[11]

She was the 2015-2017 Liaison/Outreach person for Veteran Feminists of America.^[12]

She was also a labor organizer, and served as the Founding Director (later President) of the Midwest Academy, which trains all types of progressive organizers.^[13][14]