Creator to Creators S2 Ep 31 Jeri Dilno ft Mickey

Jeri Dilno has been an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights formost of her life. She has helped countless people in the community as part of the original marchers in Philadelphia, the second Executive Director of the San Diego LGBTQ Community Center,and she grew up heavily influenced by her farther who was in the Navy. She joined the air force. Jeri's an icon in San Diego and even has a street named in her honor at Texas and Howard, in the North Park neighborhood. It's called Jeri Dilno Way. Michelle (she/hers), aka "Mickey" is a longtime activist and advocate onissues such as foster care, LGBTQ+ issues/laws/policies, homelessness, poverty,education, etc. Mickey started off going through some rough stuff, then found herresilience and has spent her life trying to help others find their resilience as well. She is a Cooke scholar, a recipient of varied awards in education and advocacy work, a public speaker, as well as having a screenplay written with her writing partner - loosely based on her life as "Lucky McCloud".Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/creator-to-creators-with-meosha-bean--4460322/support.