Celebrated National Park Service Ranger, civil rights activist, and WWII home front worker Betty Reid Soskin died at her home in Richmond, California, on Sunday, December 21, 2025, at the age of 104, surrounded by family. She was famous for becoming the nation's oldest active park ranger at 85 and sharing her experiences of racial discrimination during the war, retiring at 100 in 2022. I was very blessed to meet this Shero and Icon at a @themoth talk at @lincolncenter in 2018 and then paneled at