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Geraldine Traina (June 27, 1936 – April 28, 2011), also known as Gerri Traina, was an American radical feminist activist. She was a co-founder and editor of Quest: A Feminist Quarterly, ran the Washington Area Women's Center in 1973, and helped to establish the Washington Area Women's Fund as well as the Washington Area Feminist Federal Credit Union. She appears in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 by Barbara J. Love.

Early life
Geraldine Traina was born to Peter Traina, a postal examiner, and Marie Catalano, a seamstress in Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.A from Hunter College in New York City and her M.A. at NYU.

Geraldine Traina was part of one of the first Peace Corps missions, serving in the Philippines in 1962.

Expanded description
Geraldine Traina discovered the women's movement in the 1960's, attending consciousness raising groups in New York City with anti-Vietnam war activists. As an adult, she moved to Washington, D.C. where she ran the Washington Area Women's Center. In the 1980's, she founded the Washington Area Feminist Federal Credit Union as well as the Washington Area Women's Fund, where she eventually served as executive director, to give women access to loans. She was co-director of the D.C. chapter of the National Congress of Neighborhood Women.

She came out as a lesbian in 1971, at the age of 35.

Death and afterward
Geraldine Traina died of ovarian cancer on April 28, 2011 in Port Charlotte, Florida.

Philosophical and/or political views
Geraldine Traina was a radical feminist and supported women's, environmental, anti-nuclear, and anti-imperialist causes.