EPISODE #13: Steve Heilig, long-time Haight-Ashbury resident, editor, ethicist, environmentalist

We're honored to have Steve Heilig as a regular columnist in Haight Street Voice magazine -- and here on Haight Street Voice Radio! Steve and I met via Dr. David E Smith, founder of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, with whom he is a dear friend for nearly 50 years. His list of work roles goes on and on: Managing Editor at San Francisco Medicine, Host/Interviewer at The New School at Commonweal, Book critic/opinion writer at San Francisco Chronicle, Co-Editor at Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, International Drug Smuggler (Ha! Not. He brought birth control pills from France when most needed - read the story, here: https://haightstreetvoice.com/bringing-the-moral-property-of-women-to-american-women-too/) Festival MC at Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, San Francisco Marin Medical Society, and more. But don't let all that impressive list of gigs scare you. Steve's a down-to-earth, funny, great guy, and we had a lovely hang on a rainy Haight-Ashbury day in November 2025, sharing stories and conversing.