Midge Wilson was an activist and community leader who founded the Bay Area Women’s and Children’s Center in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Muskingum College and went on to attend McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. Interested in social work and criminal justice from a young age, Wilson worked briefly with the Illinois Justice foundation and, following her move to the Tenderloin in 1980, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Her efforts with the Bay Area Women’s and Children’s Center became instrumental in reshaping the Tenderloin; Wilson helped to establish clothing drives, youth programs, recreation centers, and the neighborhood’s first public school, the Tenderloin Community School. In this interview, Wilson discusses her extensive work with the Bay Area Women’s and Children’s Center, fundraising strategies, youth programs and education, and changes to the Tenderloin community in the 1980s and beyond.