Jodie Evans

Activist, Change agent, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Filmmaker, Idea generator, Investor, Parent, Philanthropist, Social entrepreneur

Jodie Evans is the co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace. For the last 40 years, she has been a community, social and political. She has used her skills for the protection of the earth, to give voice to communities and people who go unheard and unseen, in the area of human and civil rights, to protect the rights of women, to raise the minimum wage for farm workers, to protect dolphins, in El Salvador in the early 80's and with Zapitistas since '94. From 1973 to 1982, she served in administrative capacities in all of Jerry Brown's campaigns and in his staff and cabinet as Director of Administration. Breakthroughs in wind and solar energy happened while she was overseeing the office of Appropriate Technology. She ran the Hereditary Disease Foundation and founded the Grief Recovery Center after the death of her daughter. She is the Chair of the Women's Campaign Fund. In 1990 Jodie opened the first environmental department store, Terra Verde in Santa Monica. She also served as a board member of People for Parks, which was successful in passing an initiative for more funding to save the public parks in Los Angeles. Her other areas of involvement were supporting activists organizations such as, Citizen Action, Neighbor to Neighbor, Earth Island Institute, Environmental Media Association, Interfaith Task Force on Central America, International Overseas Education Fund, Los Angeles Women's Foundation, El Rescate, C.A.R.E., etc. After running Jerry Brown's presidential campaign in '92 she created We the People to encourage those that had been motivated by the efforts of the campaign to work in their communities by creating community projects and instilling them with habits of democracy and to continue the fight against big money in the election process. She helped produce with her 2 partners the 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2008 World Festival of Sacred Music in Los Angeles. She has produced documentaries and the books Stop the Next War Now and Twilight of Empire.

The strength and leadership of women in the world and making war obsolete.

PEACE!

Playing the harp