Jodie Evans

Jodie Evans is the co-founder of CODEPINK and the after-school writing program 826LA. She has been a visionary advocate for peace for several decades. An inspired motivator, Jodie invigorates nascent activists and re-invigorates seasoned activists through her ever-evolving, always exciting methods to promote peace. Whether in board rooms or war zones, legislative offices or neighborhood streets, Jodie’s enthusiasm for a world at peace infuses conciliation, optimism and activism wherever she goes.

Jodie is a revolutionary whose commitment to social change is evidenced through several documentary films, including Stripped and Teased: Tales from Las Vegas Women, The People Speak, based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States," and the Oscar-nominated documentary The Square, which vividly captured the profound 2011-2012 democratic uprisings in Egypt., and the climate change documentary This Changes Everything.