Port Elizabeth achiever

Dr. Colleen Crangle grew up and went to university in Port Elizabeth. She left for the USA to further her career, got married, had two children, and in-between become a women‘s rights activist. She had a ground-breaking law suit against Stanford University eight years ago. In 1996, a year after being hired as a medical informatics expert, Colleen was fired after she complained about gender discrimination. She sued the university and won in 2000. She still works in medical informatics. Colleen studied at the Universities of Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, and Unisa. She later got a PhD from Stanford University. She lives in Palo Alto, California. Her sister Maureen lives in Port Elizabeth, and her brother Kevin in Australia. She is also a member of an animal advocacy group, the Humane Education Network, in California.