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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: MARGO JEANCHILDveteranfeminists2023-09-26T09:05:57-04:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Margo Jeanchild

“I Am an Activist by Nature.”

National Organization for Women, Chicago Chapter; President, Vice President and Secretary, 1981-1989. VISTA volunteer, Arkansas, 1972. Peace Corps Volunteer, Kenya, 1977-1979. Peace Corps Country Director, Sri Lanka, 1989-1992 and 1994; Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 2008-2010. Woman Made Gallery, 1995-2006, President and Member.

Interviewed by Mary-Ann Lupa, VFA Secretary, September 2022

Photo 1. Hillary Clinton visits Woman Made Gallery. Photo 2. Exhibit from Woman Made Gallery’s Mary, Mary Quite Contrary show, 1996. Photo 3. Margo at the NOW Walkathon with Dawn Clark Netsch and Chicago Mayor Harald Washington, 1985. Photo 4. Margo working with the Red Cross in Maternal Child Healthcare as a Peace Corps Volunteer, 1978.

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More About Margo:

  • National Organization for Women, Chicago Chapter Records, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Woman Made Gallery website

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