Jodie Evans

Evans was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She first became interested in social justice activism when she worked as a maid in a major Las Vegas hotel as a teenager—as her coworkers organized, she marched in favor of a living wage.[7]

Her CODEPINK protest actions include disrupting Sarah Palin's speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention,[8][9] and, in 2009, leading a protest in Santa Monica against Israeli cosmetics company Ahava.[10] Upon returning from Afghanistan, she delivered signatures from women in that country and the US to President Barack Obama asking him to send no new troops into the conflict there.[11][12]

In March, 2010, during a book signing by Karl Rove, she and other Code Pink members caused disruptions. At one point, Evans charged the stage towards Rove with a pair of handcuffs, declaring that she was making a citizen's arrest.[13] On January 30, 2011, Evans was arrested for disruptive behavior at a Rancho Mirage hotel where she was leading a protest against David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch over their financial support of part of the Tea Party Movement.[14]

She is the co-founder and president of the People’s Support Foundation, a non-profit which aims to empower people through education, research and community, which was established in 2017 with support of former staff of software company ThoughtWorks.[15]

In Fall 2019, Evans joined actress and activist Jane Fonda in a series of weekly rallies and acts of civil disobedience, called Fire Drill Fridays, at Washington DC's Capitol to highlight the global climate crisis, where Evans was arrested on multiple occasions along with Fonda.[16]

Evans' partner is tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham.[15]

In the summer of 2010, controversy arose over Evans' alleged 2008 remark to Debbie Lee, the mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq that "Your son deserved to die in Iraq if he was stupid enough to go over there."[17] Republican candidate Meg Whitman repeated this charge in her 2010 California gubernatorial campaign, demanding that Jerry Brown return money from a fundraiser that Evans hosted. Later during the controversy, Lee told the San Francisco Chronicle that she could not identify Evans and was not sure who made the insulting remark.[18]

• Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation (2004) (Co-Editor)[19]
• Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (2005) (Co-Editor)[20]

• Stripped and Teased: Tales from Las Vegas Women (1999) (Producer)[21]
• The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends (2006) (Executive Producer)[22]
• South Central Farm: Oasis in a Concrete Desert (2008) (Executive Producer)[23]
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009) (Executive Producer)[24]
• The People Speak (2009) (Producer)[25]
• Rooted in Peace (2012) (Self)[26]
• The Square (2013) (Executive Producer)[27]
• Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013) (Self)[28]
• We Are Many (2014)[29]
• The Yes Men Are Revolting (2014)[30]
• The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015) (Executive Producer)[31]
• This Changes Everything (2015) (Executive Producer)[27]
• Shadow World (2016) (Co-Executive Producer)[32]
• Always in Season (2019) (Co-Executive Producer)[33]

Evans is a member of a number of organizations and boards including:

• CODEPINK: Women for Peace (Co-founder)[34]
• California Arts Council[35]
• The People's Forum[36]
• Drug Policy Alliance[37]
• Rainforest Action Network[38]
• Institute for Policy Studies[39]
• World Festival of Sacred Music[40]
• 826LA[41]
• Office of the Americas[42]
• Sisterhood is Global Institute[43]
• Women's Media Center[44]
• Global Girl Media[45]
• Schumacher Center for a New Economics[46]

• Interview with The Progressive Magazine
• Interview on Women's Spaces Radio Programme
• Interview on KCRW's Scheer Intelligence
• Talk on Creating a Peace Economy at the Be the Revolution Online Summit
• The Mad Military Money Machine on the Laura Flanders Show
• The Revolutionary Worker Interview: Witnessing the Occupation of Iraq
• Interview on the Simulation Podcast with Allen Saakyan

• Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of the Iraq Invasion (2013)[47]

• Levantine Cultural Center 2010 East-West Vision of Peace Award [48]
• Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains 2008 Tedi Winograd Courage Award - Outside the Party [49]
• Death Penalty Focus 2007 Rose Elizabeth Bird Commitment to Justice Award [50]

• United for Peace and Justice
• List of peace activists