102-year-old Ida Potter Keeling is a mother, activist, and runner.
Miss Ida, as she is known in her Bronx community, grew up the child
of immigrants during the Depression. She began working to help
provide for her family at age 12. After her husband passed, she
raised her four children alone in a single bedroom apartment while
serving as an active member in the Civil Rights movement. She
started running at 67 years old to chase away the grief following
the murders of her two sons. Today, Ida is a world record-holder
for the 60-meter dash in the 95-99 age group, the 100-meter dash
for the 100-104 age group, and continues to set new records with
each race.
Anita Diggs is the author of seven fiction and nonfiction books. As
an editor and senior editor at Time Warner Publishing, Thunder’s
Mouth Press, and Random House, she acquired and edited both fiction
and memoir. She holds a BA from the State University of New
York/Empire State College and an MFA in Creative Writing and Memoir
from Hunter College.
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