Kit Bakke

Kit Bakke has raised two daughters and currently lives in Seattle with her husband. In 2006, Kit Bakke wrote a bio-memoir, Miss Alcott's E-mail.

She moved to Seattle with her young daughter, Maya, to be close to family. She married in 1982. For thirteen years, Kit worked as an oncology nurse at Children's Regional Hospital in Seattle. Today, Bakke is involved with charities that tackle local issues, such as drug abuse and homelessness. Bakke remained underground for two years, and in that time cut off all contact with her parents. She has expressed guilt and regret about the effect of her actions on her parents, but according to Flanigan, "Bakke says she doesn't have any regrets. ‘Of course we made mistakes, but everyone makes mistakes... I believe in putting yourself out there for the things you care about. If you don't do that, you're going to live a diminished life.'" In another interview, Bakke describes the Students for a Democratic Society as being arrogant bullies.

In the early 1970s, Kit was pregnant with her first child, Maya, while she participated in an anti Vietnam War demonstration which got out of hand. While fleeing from the police and trying to avoid the teargas, police batons and the barrels of firearms, Kit decided to leave the Weather Underground.

In her last undergraduate year, she shifted her focus to issues in the inner city rather than problems within the college. In the summer of 1969 at the SDS Convention in Chicago, SDS came apart. Bakke became part of a group that broke away from the SDS which was labeled the "Action Faction" or the "Weatherman". They believed that in order for a revolution to occur, they had to take militant action to provoke it.

Bakke went to Havana, Cuba, for eight days in July 1969 to meet with the members of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and Provisional Revolutionary Government to discuss the opposition movements going on in the United States. While accounts of the number of SDS participants vary, according to the FBI summary, 13 people, including Bernardine Dohrn, a key figure in the Weatherman went on the trip to Cuba.

Only a few months after returning from Cuba, in October 1969, she participated in the Chicago riot termed the "Days of Rage" and was arrested. Bakke was also jailed in Cook County for three days after "some particularly aggressive street fighting".

She graduated in 1968, but after earning her undergraduate degree in political science, Kit got a job as a journalist for a Seattle suburban newspaper with the intent of better understanding by getting an inside view of the "nominating conventions". When reporting on demonstrations, she took pictures, interviewed participants, and wrote articles.

Christopher Lynn "Kit" Bakke (born December 23, 1946) is a American activist. In the 1960s, she actively fought for women's rights and civil rights in addition to protesting the Vietnam War. In college, she helped to establish a new chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Later, she became a member of the Weathermen, also called the Weather Underground, a militant leftist group.

Christopher Lynn Bakke, otherwise known as "Kit" Bakke, was born in 1946. She grew up in a rural area near Seattle, Washington, with liberal parents and two younger brothers in a household that valued success in school above all else. Her father, Jack Bakke, was a physician with a passion for human biology, anatomy and the practice of medicine. Her mother, an active member of the League of Women Voters, championed various causes including voter education and keeping water supplies clean. All of her grandparents were college graduates.