Last May Trowe was part of a delegation of fighting farmers and workers from the United States that attended the convention of the National Association of Small Farmers of Cuba. In November Trowe participated in the Second World Conference of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba, held in Havana.

Prior to becoming the SWP's vice-presidential candidate, Trowe was a meat packer and a member of Local 9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) at Quality Pork Processors in Austin, Minnesota.

Trowe moved to Austin from Des Moines, Iowa, where she worked in a meatpacking plant in nearby Marshalltown. In 1999, along with other members of UFCW Local 1149 and community activists, she helped found the Ad Hoc Committee for Human Rights, which organized protests that year against attacks on the rights of immigrants.

Trowe joined the communist movement in 1975 in Bloomington, Indiana. She has been a longtime fighter for women's rights, participating in numerous protest actions defending the right of women to choose abortion. In 1995, as a reporter for the Militant, she took part in the United Nations-sponsored Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, attended by more than 26,000 people. Over the years she has regularly contributed to the Militant as a worker-correspondent.

Trowe also served two stints as a volunteer in Pathfinder's printshop, in 1981–85 and 1991–96.  
 
 
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