Jill Beishir, she/her

Jill Beishir is the Administrative and Events Coordinator for the Gephardt Institute. Jill manages the Director’s calendar, handles correspondence and arrangements relating to the Director’s meetings and travel, provides administrative assistance, and manages events, such as National Advisory Council meetings, donor engagement events, receptions, and site visits.

Jill has extensive high-level administrative, office management, and internal communications experience. Most recently, Jill spent two years working for a local non-profit whose mission was to help people around the world sustainably exit poverty through a beyond fair trade business model. Prior to that, Jill worked 17 years at a leading global brewer, six of those years as the Administrative Assistant to the Sr. Director of MIS Operations, and 11 years as a Coordinator in the Communications Department.

Jill is a St. Louis native. She enjoys volunteering with non-profits whose focus is on social inequality, environmental conservation, and animal rights. She enjoys hiking, reading, traveling, being on the water, music festivals, and spending as much time as possible outdoors.