Andrea R. Meyer Papers, ca. 1910-1961, 1987-1989
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Administrative/Biographical History
Andrea Ruth Meyer is the daughter of Paul R. Meyer (1925-2020) and Alice Turtledove from Portland, Oregon. She and her two siblings were raised there as members of Congregation Beth Israel. Paul Meyer worked for organizations such as the ACLU, NAACP, and the Peace Now movement. He practiced law for half a century and took on countless pro-bono legal cases in defense of civil liberties.
Andrea Meyer received the AB in 1988 in Political Science and Government at Oberlin College, and the JD at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. From 1999 to 2011 Meyer was Legislative Director/Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union in Portland. She was Director of Affiliate Legislative Programs, AARP, from 2011 to 2018. Since 2019 (as of 2022) Meyer has been Director of Governmental Relations at AARP Oregon.
As of June 2022, Meyer’s LinkedIn page states that she is an executive “with a successful background designing and leading policy and capacity-building programs at nonprofit organizations. As an experienced policy strategist, I have a proven record of developing and running successful integrated advocacy campaigns using legislative, legal, public education, and communication tactics on a broad range of public policy issues.”
Meyer’s volunteer experience includes membership on the Board of Directors of the Oregon Jewish Museum and the Sullivan’s Gulch Neighborhood Association, and as an appointed member of the State Advisory Committee on Genetic Privacy and Research (2002-11), and the Oregon State Advisory Committee, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (2010-11).
Source
“Paul R. Meyer,” Oregon Jewish Center for Holocaust Education, accessed June 22, 2022.
Author: Salsich, Anne Cuyler Forms of Material (links to similar genres) Administrative InformationThe papers were received from Andrea R. Meyer in three accessions in 1989, 2000-2001.
The Andrea R. Meyer Papers comprise her research materials, undergraduate thesis and a course paper from her time at Oberlin (1984-88) concerning the experiences of Jewish students at Oberlin College.
Her thesis, entitled “History of Jews at Oberlin College: A Mirror of Change—A Reflection of a Society” (1988), is available in these papers and also under a shortened title from the OhioLINK ETD Center online. Research materials for the project are photocopies of records in the Oberlin College Archives concerning admissions policies, enrollment, chapel, and religious organizations and activities, spanning ca. 1910 to 1961. They also include original, completed questionnaires from the college dating from the early 1950s titled “Your Jewish Experiences at Oberlin,” and letters from individuals who objected to the questionnaire. The questionnaires and letters are restricted.
The collection includes another of Meyer’s course papers, done for Researching Women’s History, in 1987. It is entitled “Marion Dorothy Benjamin: The Founder of the Oberlin College Menorah Society, From Cleveland to Oberlin, 1898-1919.”
INVENTORY
Box 1
Andrea R. Meyer, “Marion Dorothy Benjamin: The Founder of the Oberlin
College Menorah Society, From Cleveland to Oberlin, 1898-1919,”
student paper for Researching Women’s History, Oberlin College,
1987
Andrea R. Meyer, “History of Jews at Oberlin College: A Mirror of Change—
A Reflection of Society,” thesis, Oberlin College, 1988-89
Research materials (photocopies) for thesis from the Oberlin College
Archives, ca. 1910-1961
Box 2
RESTRICTED: Questionnaires and letters