Evan Ravitz's first career was as a programmer/analyst computerizing Xerox's Latin American Division and UCLA's Medical Center among other projects. In 1976 he briefly joined Puck's Canadian Traveling Circus, which led to his 20-year career as Evan from Heaven (see photo), the not-so-tight-rope artist and juggler, performing at fairs, conventions and public plazas from Alaska to Guatemala. Among a wide variety of other achievements, Evan co-founded the Colorado Springs Artists Co-op, served as a columnist for the Colorado Daily newspaper in Boulder, Colorado, and was a Commentator on KGNU Radio, in Boulder.

In 1989 Evan founded, and has since served as the Exective Director of, the Voting by Phone Foundation, a nonprofit promoting the telephone as a means for improving the democratic process. He spearheaded the world's first and only ballot initiative to legalize phone voting, which appeared on the Boulder, Colorado ballot in 1993. In 1995 he started the Vote.org web site, which became one of the most popular direct and electronic democracy information sources, and is now used in two university courses.

Evan has worked as a solar energy researcher, map-maker, initiative petitioner, and cowboy. He spent eleven winters living, traveling and adventuring in Mexico and Guatemala, including riding a bicycle the length of Mexico and constructing a log raft to float the Jatate, Lacuntun and Usimacinta Rivers in Chiapas, Mexico.

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