Rita Arditti describes growing up in a Jewish Sephardic family in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  She says being part of a religious minority in a country that is 95% Catholic inspired her later political activism. Arditti talks about her move to Italy when she was twenty years old, where she studied science at the University of Rome.  She moved to the United States in 1965 for postgraduate work as a researcher at Brandeis University and then Harvard Medical School. Arditti describes her involvement in Science for the People and the Women’s Movement, working to address inequalities for women in science and society.  She describes being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1974, calling it the “dark ages” of cancer research and awareness.  Arditti recounts her early involvement with the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a human rights organization seeking to locate illegally adopted children during the Argentina’s National Reorganization Process, a military dictatorship that lasted from 1976 to 1983.  Arditti worked first as a fundraiser and advocate, and later became involved in interviewing the mothers and grandmothers and published Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina about their experience. Arditti reflects on human rights issues, her role models, and the impact of her work with the mothers and grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.