Joan Harvey

Dr. Joan Harvey-Klein, psychotherapist, activist, and mother of 10, passed away peacefully at her home in New Rochelle on Monday, November 24, 2014. Dr. Harvey was born in Los Angeles and moved to New York in the early 1950s where she worked as an actress, appearing on the soap opera The Edge of Night. In the early 1960’s, she received her Ph.D from New York University, and was a psychotherapist, working right up until the time of her death. She is the director of several documentary films including We Are the Guinea Pigs, and America: From Hitler to MX, and was a passionate spokesperson for human and environment rights and political justice until the end of her life. Dr. Harvey was the wife of Ralph Klein (d. 2011), and is survived by 10 children, Joshua, Susan, Wendy, Michael, Amanda, Megan, Antonia, Johnathan, Timothy, and Hannah. She will be buried this coming Friday, November 28, at 11:00 a.m. at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at 540 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY. There will be a brief grave-side memorial followed by a buffet reception at 1:30 at the family home in New Rochelle. In lieu of sending flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Joan’s name to any of the following organizations:

Earthjustice: http://earthjustice.org/
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights http://ellabakercenter.org/
Physicians for Social Responsibility: http://www.psr.org/
Equal Justice Initiative: http://www.eji.org/
Doctors Without Borders: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/"