Jodie Evans

Jodie Evans (born September 22, 1954) is an American political activist, author, and documentary film producer.

Evans was a Democratic Party political activist who managed the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign of former California governor Jerry Brown. Evans co-founded the women's left-wing anti-war activist organization Code Pink with Medea Benjamin and others. She is a former board chair of Rainforest Action Network.

In 2023, The New York Times published an article detailing the connections between her husband since 2017, Neville Roy Singham, and the Chinese Communist Party, stating that Evans had been critical of China's authoritarian government in 2015. Since 2017, 25% of Code Pink's funding has come from groups connected to Singham. Evans stated in 2023 that she now strongly supports China, and regards it as a defender of the oppressed and a model for economic growth without slavery or war.

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

In March 2010, during a book signing by Karl Rove in Beverly Hills, California, 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. 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.

She is the co-founder and president of the People’s Support Foundation, a nonprofit which was established in 2017 with support of former staff of software company ThoughtWorks.

She was an editor of the books Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation (2004) (co-editor) and Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (2005) (co-editor).

Position on China Evans was once critical of China's authoritarian government, making statements such as: "We demand China stop brutal repression of their women's human rights defenders". In a 2023 article, The New York Times wrote that Evans was now a strong supporter of China, and regards it as a defender of the oppressed and a model for economic growth without slavery or war. In 2021, Evans described Uyghurs as "terrorists". In a podcast for China Global Television Network, Evans stated "China took everyone out of poverty." . He was her second husband and she was his fourth wife. She currently lives in Venice, California.

In 2017, Evans married tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham, who has close ties to the Chinese government.

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

Organizations and boards Evans is a member of a number of organizations and boards including: CODEPINK: Women for Peace (Co-founder) California Arts Council The People's Forum 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 Schumacher Center for a New Economics

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