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Joan Blades is an American businessperson and progressive political activist. She is the co-founder of the progressive advocacy group MoveOn.org, the co-founder of the business incubator Berkeley Systems, and the co-founder of the online parenting community MomsRising.org. Blades was born in Berkeley, California, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 with a degree in economics. She then attended the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she received her Juris Doctor in 1981. Blades began her career as a corporate lawyer in San Francisco. In 1995, she and her husband Wes Boyd founded Berkeley Systems, a software company that developed the popular screen saver After Dark. In 1998, Blades and Boyd co-founded MoveOn.org, a progressive advocacy group that has become one of the most influential political organizations in the United States. In 2006, Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founded MomsRising.org, an online community that advocates for family-friendly policies. Blades is the author of The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line (2009) and The Motherhood Manifesto: What America's Moms Want and What to Do About It (2006). She has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post.

Popular As Joan Ellen Blades
Occupation businessperson, progressive political activist
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 18 March, 1956
Birthday 18 March
Birthplace Berkeley, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2011

In 2011, Blades co-founded Living Room Conversations in an effort to bring both sides of the political spectrum together to discuss individual issues in a comfortable environment. Based on six basic rules of discourse, Joan hosted a Living Room Conversation with Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler and was featured in the SF Chronicle. This led to further work on criminal justice reform and the formation of the Coalition for Public Safety. Over 25 Living Room Conversations topics are available for public use ranging from food to guns to voting and more, which are regularly featured on Huffington Post.

2010

In 2010, Blades and Nanette Fondas co-authored The Custom-Fit Workplace published by Wiley. A practical guide for making the workplace more profitable and a better fit for employees, the book describes work practices like flexible work, virtual work, high-commitment work, non-linear career paths and babies at work. MomsRising.org launched a companion to the book on Labor Day 2010 to encourage supporters of custom-fit work environments to join the conversation about transforming work culture.

2006

In 2006, Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-authored The Motherhood Manifesto and co-founded the organization MomsRising.org, dedicated to "bringing millions of people, who all share a common concern about the need to build a more family-friendly America, together as a non-partisan force."

1977

Blades received her B.A. in History from UC Berkeley in 1977 and her J.D. from the Golden Gate University School of Law. She wrote the book Mediate Your Divorce (published by Prentice Hall), and co-wrote The Divorce Book. She was a member of the board at Berkeley Systems and its vice president of marketing. Blades created many of the box designs for the early Berkeley Systems products such as Stepping Out and After Dark based on her original collage-art.

1956

Joan Ellen Blades (born March 18, 1956 in Berkeley, California) is an American businessperson and progressive political activist. In 1987, she and her husband Wes Boyd co-founded Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company that marketed the popular After Dark screensaver and the You Don't Know Jack trivia game. After selling Berkeley Systems in 1997 for $13.8 million, Blades and Boyd founded the liberal political group MoveOn.org.

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