THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Mickey Beil
“Use Your Passion and Never Give Up.”
Lobbyist. Organizer. Educator. Speaker. ERA activist, Illinois. Illinois Education Association. Illinois Nurses Association. Illinois Environmental Council. Statewide grassroots organizer for Illinois Project Merit Selection of Judges. Milwaukee Public Schools & Dane County, WI; 37 years of lobbying in Illinois & Wisconsin State Capitals. Survived & succeeded in male-dominated arenas.
Interviewed by Mary Jean Collins, VFA Historian, at the UIC Richard J. Daley Library, Chicago, IL, June 15, 2019
Photo 1. INA Lobby Days, circa 1980s. Photo 2. Illinois Environmental Council meeting, 1981. Photo 3. Nurses Week, Belmont Community Hospital, 1983. Photo 4. Cosmopolitan International Club, 1983. Photo 5. Mickey at the Milwaukee Handgun Ban Referendum, 1994.
