Wendy Kirst
"Conversations With and About Mike"
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Wendy Kirst. Photo courtesy Stanford Historical Society
Wendy Kirst Biography *
Wendy Kirst lives on the Stanford campus with her husband, Professor Emeritus Michael W. Kirst. Beginning in the late 1980s, the Kirst and Gardner families were campus neighbors and very well acquainted. Mrs. Kirst had also known John Gardner in Washington, DC, when, as a new college graduate, she worked for him at the Urban Coalition and Common Cause. Mr. Kirst had worked with Gardner in Washington, DC, during that period as well.
*Biography summary excerpted from Interview with Wendy Kirst conducted by Nancy Mancini, 2018. John W. Gardner Legacy Oral History Project (SC1355). Department of Special Collections & University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif. p. 13.
Editor’s Note: The Appendix for “Conversations With and About Mike” contains transcripts for the recorded audio and video clips. To view the Audio Transcripts go to this page >