death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date known_for image article_title name occupation
09 january 1961 cambridge , usa boston , usa american 08 january 1867 nobel peace prize in 1946 emilygreenebalch.jpg emily greene balch
 emily greene balch writer , economist , professor
emily greene balch

emily greene balch -lrb- january 8 , 1867 -- january 9 , 1961 -rrb- was an american economist , sociologist and pacifist .
balch combined an academic career at wellesley college with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty , child labor and immigration , as well as settlement work to uplift poor immigrants and reduce juvenile delinquency .
she moved into the peace movement at the start of the world war i in 1914 , and began collaborating with jane addams of chicago .
she became a central leader of the women 's international league for peace and freedom -lrb- wilpf -rrb- based in switzerland , for which she won the nobel peace prize in 1946 .
