THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Vicki Saporta
“Organizing was what I loved to do and what I was good at. I really got my passion from the people I was organizing.”
Union Organizer, Advocate and Policy Maker. National Abortion Federation: President and CEO/Executive Director 1995-2018; National Abortion Federation Canada, President and CEO 2007-2018; NAF Hotline Fund, President and CEO 2009-2018. International Brotherhood of Teamsters: Director of Organizing 1983-1993; General Organizer 1975-1983; Representative, Western Conference 1974-1975.
Interviewed by Mary Jean Collins, VFA Historian, February 2020
![#2 1983, photo United Press International](https://i0.wp.com/veteranfeministsofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2-1983-photo-United-Press-International.png?resize=216%2C300&ssl=1)
![#3 testimony 1997](https://i0.wp.com/veteranfeministsofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3-testinony-1997.png?resize=266%2C300&ssl=1)
![#4 VS and Louise Melling, Director of the ACLU Center for Liberty photo Meryl Schenker](https://i0.wp.com/veteranfeministsofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/4-VS-and-Louise-Melling-Director-of-the-ACLU-Center-for-Liberty-photo-Meryl-Schenker.png?resize=300%2C228&ssl=1)
Photo 1. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 1983 [photo credit: UPI]. Photo 2. Vicki testifies in front of Congress on behalf of the National Abortion Federation, 1997. Photo 3. Vicki with Louise Melling, Director of the ACLU Center for Liberty [photo credit: Meryl Schenker]
More About Vicki:
- Women’s Media Center
- ACLU Deputy Legal Director Louise Melling and Vicki Saporta NAF President and CEO talk about their work and friendship over the years 2016, ACLU/StoryCorps
- National Abortion Federation
- On C-SPAN
- Celebrating 30 Years of NAF, 2007
- The ILR School – Cornell University
- ILR Alumni News – Vicki Saporta receives Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award – 1993
- Business and Labor with Alex Burton – PBS Video, 1985
- Select Labor related newspaper and magazine clippings 1978-1991