Bio of Evan Ravitz

"The impossible takes a little longer."

Phone: (303)440-6838 | E-Mail: evan (at) vote.org

Achievements

• Spearheaded the Alternative High School at Croton-Harmon High School, New York, 1969
• Computerized the Latin American Division of Xerox in Stamford, Connecticut, 1971
• Founding member of the Colorado Springs Artists Co-op, 1973
• Taos Office Manager and Researcher, NM Solar Energy Assoc., 1978
• Professional not-so-tight-rope artist "Evan from Heaven", 1978-98
• Student of yoga master Richard Freeman, 1979-
• Rode a mountain bike from Arizona to Guatemala 11/88-2/89, including the first bicycle crossing of a 400-mile track through the Sierra Madre.
• Founded the Voting by Phone Foundation, 1989.
• Author of column "As the Millennium Turns" for Colorado Daily, 1990-95
• Voted "Best Activist" by readers of Boulder Daily Camera, 7/26/92 for promoting Voting by Phone and spearheading the 13th St. Bike Path, built in 1993.
• Spearheaded the 1993 Voting by Phone ballot initiative in Boulder. We lost 59-41%
• Rafted the Jatate, Lacuntun and Ucimacinta Rivers in Chiapas, Mexico on a log raft, 2/93
• Observer of Government-Zapatista negotiations in Chiapas, Mexico, 2/94
• A main source for the book Presumed Guilty regarding the murder of neighbor JonBenet Ramsey, 1999
• Advisor to fmr. US Senator Mike Gravel on the National Initiative for Democracy 1999-
• Backpacked from home in Boulder to Salida, 300 miles on the Continental Divide and Colorado Trails, 2001
• Put the best 1000 photos of a 1/3 century of color photography on the web, 2002
• Started "The Doctor is IN"  help booth on Boulder's Pearl St. Mall, 2003
• Began Gates of Paradise trips to hot springs and waterfalls in Mexico's Copper Canyon, 2007
  

Employment highlights

• Programmer Analyst, Xerox National Sales. Rochester, NY. 1972-3.
• Programmer Analyst, UCLA Medical Center. Los Angeles, CA. 1973-4.
• Programmer Analyst, IP Sharpe, Ltd, Rochester, NY & Toronto 1975-6
• Programmer Analyst, The Architects. Taos NM. 1977 .
• Researcher and Office Manager, New Mexico Solar Energy Association. Taos, NM. 1978. Research summary published by High Country News
• Performing Artist; Various Locations. 1978-1998
• Executive Director, Voting By Phone Foundation (now Vote.org) Boulder, CO, 1989 - Present
• Columnist, Colorado Daily, Boulder, CO. 1990 - 1995
• Preschool teacher, Homestar, Boulder, 2004-5
• Researcher for Jared Polis, 2006

Education

• Croton-Harmon High School, Croton-on-Hudson, NY. 1966 -1970.
• Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. 1971-2.
• CU-Boulder, 1980.

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