Noella Bickham

Noella Bickham was born in December 1941, in Rhode Island, USA, but grew up in Norwich, Connecticut. She attended the University of Connecticut, then moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where she worked for an insurance company. Because of racial prejudice, she and her African- American husband left the USA in 1963, eventually ending up in Sweden. There, she worked as a Swedish-English translator in her own company (Language Makers, Noella Bickham). Then, in 1997, she became the managing editor of the International Journal of Social Welfare, retiring in 2020