Background
Evans, Jodie was born on September 22, 1954 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Daughter of Chuck Evans and Donna (Sexsmith) Folkman.
Evans, Jodie was born on September 22, 1954 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Daughter of Chuck Evans and Donna (Sexsmith) Folkman.
Bachelor of Business Administration, Woodbury U., 1975; postgraduate, Woodbury U., 1975-1977; postgraduate, Southwestern U. School Law, 1977-1978.
She characterizes her activism as working for peace and justice, environmental causes and women’s rights. She has traveled extensively promoting what she terms the conflict resolution by peaceful means—including leading "citizen diplomacy" delegations to Iran, the Gaza Strip, and Afghanistan. She served in California Governor Jerry Brown’s cabinet and managed his 1992 campaign for the presidency.
Evans currently serves as the chairperson of the board of the Women's Media Center, an organization that describes its goals as working to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and creation of original content. Evans was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She first became interested in what she terms 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 what she termed a living wage.
Her Code Pink protest actions include disrupting Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention in 2008, and, in 2009, leading a protest in Santa Monica against Israeli cosmetics company Ahava. Upon returning from Afghanistan, she delivered signatures from women in that country and the US to President Obama asking him to send no new troops into the conflict there. 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. 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. 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.
Drug Policy Alliance Rainforest Action Network Institute for Policy Studies World Festival of Sacred Music 826LA Office of the Americas Sisterhood is Global Institute Women's Media Center Global Girl Media Interview with The Progressive MagazineInterview on Women's Spaces Radio Programme.
Board of directors Women's Political Committee, since 1982, Women's Campaign Fund, since 1983, People for Parks, since 1989, Sand County Venture Fund, since 1989, American Friends of Israel Museum, since 1987. Board directors, treasurer Hereditary Disease Foundation, since 1985. Campaign manager Brown for President, 1992.
Active Citizen Action, Earth Institute, Heal the Bay, Interfaith Task Force on Control American, Natrue Conservancy, No on Oil, Rape Treatment Center, Santa Monica Pier, Voters for Choice, Enivron. Media Advisers, National Women's Political Committee, and numerous others
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Married Jan Krajewski (divorced 1985). Children: Jasiu, Lala. Married Max Palevsky, February 28, 1987.
1 child, Matthew Evans.