Jean Eberhardt

Jean Eberhardt

I arrived in Olympia with Becca Todd on January 1, 1977. We landed in the Honey House on Cushing Street with Carol Elwood and Marilyn Stern. How fortunate we were to land in a group house that was connected to one of the local food buying clubs. Becca began her studies at Evergreen while I got a job pruning xmas trees for a local grower. We both enthusiastically joined Feminist Karate Union and met a LOT of awesome dykes! I moved into the Raging Women 1894 farmhouse on the westside, where I still live decades later. After my own short stint at Evergreen, I began working in the building trades with other women and kept NOZAMA (read this backwards) Construction going for 17 years. It became the medium for funding my activism in Central America solidarity during heinous times. I learned a lot about privilege and oppression in Olympia and embraced the ongoing responsibility for me as a white US citizen from a middle-class background.