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About Mickey

Mickey Hart, 36, lives in the city of Athens located in Athens County. He was born in Lancaster (Fairfield County) and grew up in Laurelville in Hocking County until moving to Athens at the age of 20. In 1993 Mickey received a Bachelor's in Fine Arts from Ohio University and later went on to receive a Master's in Education with a focus in Higher Education Administration from Ohio University. He has taught at the college level and has presented to middle schools, high schools and community groups on the topics of LGBT issues, alcohol and drug abuse prevention, personal growth, group dynamics and development, team building, and more.
Mickey currently serves as the Coordinator of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Programs Center at Ohio University. He has held this education and outreach position for 4 years. Prior to this Mickey, worked in Residence Life for 7 years, where he mentored and advised students and student employees in OU's residence halls. For four years
Mickey worked as a substance abuse prevention educator. For five years he owned and managed a family-style restaurant that he opened at age 18.

Mickey has served on the board of director's of UCM: Center for Spiritual Growth and Social Justice in Athens for 9 years. In addition to his work locally, for three years Mickey served as both a board member and vice-chair of OUTVoice. He also served on the board of the National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education and the Standing Committee for LGBT Awareness of the American College Personnel Association. He has also attended various marches and rallies for equality. Mickey has served on over a dozen short- and long-term committees, boards,
and councils related to his work.

"As you can imagine, Southeastern Ohio is not the hotbed of LGBT outreach, support and education. I saw a need to work to change this over 15 years ago. I have been working to improve this ever since. Even though my current job is related to LGBT work, most of my volunteer efforts over the years have also centered around LGBT equality. In additional to my full-time job, I now also do outreach work and education programs as a consultant through my business, At the Crossroads.

I have been committed to improving the quality of life for LGBT people since I really started coming out to others in 1989. I feel that I bring to Equality Ohio's Core Design Team compassion, commitment, organization, creativity, a rural perspective, public speaking and training experience, business and budgeting experience, board (local, state and national) experience, social justice and civil disobedience work, and a strong understanding of LGBT issues and people from a variety of perspectives.

My hope is that Equality Ohio will succeed in our vision while bringing the Ohio LGBT and Ally Community closer together. I further hope that we focus our eyes on the prize and do not get side-tracked by our oppressors or ourselves as other attempts to form a state-wide LGBTA equality organization have failed because of these reasons. Let's focus on the big
picture.The work we have to do is too important not to succeed."