Betty Reid Soskin

Welcome to “She Pivots,” the podcast in partnership with Marie Claire about women, their stories, and how their pivot became their success. Betty Reid Soskin is a mother, music lover, and activist. At 100 years old—she'll turn 101 in September—she is also the oldest U.S. Park Ranger in history. It’s a career she embarked on later in life. In fact, she sees her current self as an entirely different person from the woman she was in her twenties.

Geoff Bennett is the chief Washington correspondent for PBS NewsHour. He is also a political contributor for NBC News and MSNBC.

Betty Reid Soskin retired on March 31, 2022, after serving in the United States as a National Park Ranger. At 85, She started her career as a ranger at the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park. She has been a lot of things in her lifetime-...

She survived the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, opened one of the Bay Area’s first black-owned record stores in Oakland in 1945 and was named the California Woman of the Year award in 1995. President Barack Obama gave her a silver coin with the Presidential seal when he invited...

Celebrations are in order Saturday at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park located in Richmond, California, for former National Park Service ranger Betty Reid Soskin. Prior to her retirement just weeks ago, Soskin, at age 100, was the oldest active National Park Ranger serving...

Betty Reid Soskin, a beloved ranger at Rosie The Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historic Park in Richmond, California, has recently retired at one hundred years old. She will not only be remembered as "the oldest active ranger in the National Park Service" ever but also for her lifelong contributions to educating the public on history.