Bio of Evan
Ravitz
"The impossible takes a little
longer."
Phone:
(303)923-5918 | 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 digital photography,
2004
- Began Gates of Paradise trips to
hot springs and waterfalls in Mexico's Copper Canyon, 2007
- Completed Richard Freeman's 200 hour Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Intensive
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
- Freelance Editor, 2009
Education
- Croton-Harmon High
School, Croton-on-Hudson, NY. 1966 -1970.
- Colorado College, Colorado
Springs, CO. 1971-2.
- CU-Boulder,
1980.