Salon 79 CODEPINK The Peace Economy

Salon #79 - CODEPINK: The Peace Economy

Featuring Jodie Evans & Marie Goodwin

Moderated by Letecia Layson.

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Jodie Evans is the co-founder of CODEPINK and the after-school writing program 826LA, and serves on the CODEPINK Board of Directors. 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 the co-editor of two books, "Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation" and "Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism" and a contributor to “Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution.” She is currently writing a book about divesting from the unjust, extractive war economy and building a just, sustainable peace economy.

More information at codepink.org.

Marie Goodwin is CODEPINK’s Local Peace Economy Coordinator.

Marie has a Master’s Degree in Bronze Age Aegean archaeology from Bryn Mawr College. She left academia to pursue a career as an advocate for local economics, food, and culture. She started a local Timebank in her community, opened a volunteer-led FreeStore, and sat on the board of the first Transition Town in Pennsylvania. She also spent the last fifteen years consulting with like-minded authors, public speakers, politicians, and non-profits to help them successfully structure their online presence and manage various projects, events, and workshops.

Marie makes her home in Media, Pennsylvania, on the traditional and unceded territory of the Lenni-Lenape people. When not dancing at EDM festivals with her husband, Marie is birthing her first series of speculative historical fiction based in the medieval North Atlantic.

More information at codepink.org.