Glass, Jodi L.

Jodi L. Glass moved to Rhode Island in 1978 and began her work as an audiologist, specializing in working with people of all ages with multiple disabilities and communication challenges, who often went without these services. Glass quickly began her influential work as a feminist and community activist.

In late 1978, Glass founded the Rhode Island Feminist Chorus – a group that enjoyed 22 years of performance around Rhode Island and beyond – performing songs about social justice, equal rights, domestic violence, love, friendship, politics, reproductive freedom and rape. Glass also founded Rhode Island’s Feminist Resources Unlimited, connecting women all across the state to feminist and women-specific services, health care, and resources. This group generated both the Feminist Yellow Pages of Rhode Island and the newspaper entitled The Third Wave. In 1979, Glass was the impetus to the submission and eventual passing of legislation stating that all future Rhode Island law had to be constructed using gender-inclusive language.

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