Joan Blades

Activist, Artist, Blogger, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Environmentalist, Parent, Social entrepreneur

Joan Blades is a co-founder of LivingRoomConversations.org an open source effort to rebuild respectful civil discourse across ideological, cultural and party lines while embracing our core-shared values. She is also a co-founder of MomsRising.org and MoveOn.org She is a co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace, winner of a Nautilus book award in 2011 and The Motherhood Manifesto, which won the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize in 2007. A mediator (attorney) by training and inclination, she is a nature lover, artist and true believer in the power of citizens and our need to rebuild respectful civil discourse while embracing our core shared values.

Long term thinking. Creating workplaces that are compatible with the modern work force. Democracy. Respect for our planet and all people. Women's equality. Family economic security.

Good relationships even with people who hold different views.

Making fused glass jewelry.