Pam Elam

Pamela (Pam) Elam is a retired attorney and feminist activist who has worked for both women's and LGBT rights throughout her career. Elam was born in Kentucky, where she gained her undergraduate degree and JurisDoctorate before moving to New York to pursue her master's degree. Since, she has influenced New York governance through professional offices and activist organizations, and represented the LGBT community as an open lesbian since the late 1970s. Since retiring from government work, she has continued her activism through projects promoting women's visibility in New York City.

Education Elam received a BA in political science from the University of Kentucky in 1972, and earned her Juris Doctor in 1975 from the same institution. After arriving in New York in 1978, she began studying at Sarah Lawrence College to gain a Masters in Women's History. In the 1970s she founded several organizations for feminist issues in Kentucky, and campaigned for the legislative institution of the Equal Rights Amendment, rights for battered women, and the Displaced Homemakers Program in her state's General Assembly. after she restarted the organizations New York City Lesbian Rights committee in 1986.

The campaign officially obtained approval and an assigned location in Central Park to build the monument on November 6, 2016. The Statue Fund also has gained a $500,000 grant from New York Life in 2016.

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Corner Elam has been successful in memorializing Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton through the naming of a street corner in New York City in their honor. This tribute is in close vicinity to where the two women crafted their newspaper, The Revolution. In 1998, she also assisted in facilitating a national celebration honoring of 150 years since Stanton and Lucretia Mott's Seneca Falls Convention.