Mabel Simis Ulrich was a public health educator, physician, author and public figure whose pioneering work in sex education propelled her onto multiple public health commissions in Minneapolis. She contributed to the cultural scene in Minneapolis through a bookstore that she owned, and headed the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) in Minnesota under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s.

Ulrich was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 2, 1876, to Adolph Simis, Jr., and Emma Van Duzen Simis. One of four children, Mabel attended Cornell University as a young adult, where she graduated with a degree in science in 1897. She then earned her MD in 1901 at Johns Hopkins University. On August 26, 1901, she married Dr. Harry Ulrich. They moved to Minneapolis and opened a joint medical p

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