Rita Arditti was an Argentine biologist, educator, activist, and writer.
12 Facts About Rita Arditti
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Rita Arditti was a co-founder of New Words Bookstore, the Women's Community Cancer Project, and Science for the People.
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Rita Arditti was born in Buenos Aires on 9 September 1934.
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Rita Arditti attended Barnard College in the United States for one year, in 1952.
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Rita Arditti moved to Rome in 1955, where she studied biology at Sapienza University, achieving a doctorate in that specialty.
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Rita Arditti was a longtime activist, co-founding New Words Bookstore in 1974, the Women's Community Cancer Project, and Science for the People.
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Rita Arditti met members of the Grandmothers during their visit to Boston, which further aroused her interest.
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Rita Arditti made several trips to Argentina, where she visited the organization's offices.
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Rita Arditti poured this knowledge and experience into the book Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina, published by the University of California Press in 1999, with the Grandmothers' approval.
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Rita Arditti's parents were Jacques Arditti and Rosa Cordovero, who met in Argentina after independently emigrating from Turkey.
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When she was attending Barnard College, Rita Arditti met Mario Muchnik, an Argentine who was studying at Columbia, and they began an exchange of correspondence.
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Rita Arditti suffered from metastatic breast cancer for the last 30 years of her life.