 Helen Shiller earned her high school diploma in 1965 from Woodstock County School in Vermont , the same progressive boarding school that Pete Seeger 's children attended . Shiller graduated with a degree in history from the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where she was active in the anti @-@ Vietnam war movement and in the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) . In 2005 , Shiller graduated from DePaul University 's School for New Learning Master 's Program , where her focus was public policy . 
