Go to Lytton Plaza in Downtown Palo Alto (University x Emerson), any Wednesday, except when it is raining,11 am to 1 pm, beside the Listening and Speaking for a Change sign, where all the banners are, and introduce yourself.

Her very large website is CommunityCurrency.org where she has a blog, and many articles she has written..

Here is the basic biographical sketch-

She was born August 28, 1957 to Charles Baumert Shepard and Janet Edwina Zabel, the second of four children. She was raised in Sepulveda and Woodland Hills, graduated from El Camino Real High School in 1975.

She almost finished her first year of college at Hawaii Loa College on Oahu, but couldn’t resist an opportunity to fulfill a childhood dream of sailing around the world. With her family’s blessing, she sailed to the South Pacific with the Taylor family on board the yacht, Spring Fever.

She also sailed aboard the yacht, Dragon, with the Hwang family from New Zealand to the Virgin Islands (via Australia, Africa, Brazil) from January 1977 to the spring of 1978. She sailed back to the United States aboard another vessel, and returned to college at Reed, in Portland.

After a year at Reed, she traveled to Europe to study French and painting. She couldn’t resist sailing a bit around the Mediterranean, while she was there. She almost died of the cold, was very sick, and nursed back to health by the Alberge family. Her intense life experiences inspired her to write a book. She returned to the U.S. to remember her English and write.

The book took longer than she anticipated, she traveled and sailed back to the Caribbean to find an island where she could balance living with writing in 1981. She fell in love and almost got married when doctors discovered that her fiancé, Andrew Kevill, had an enormous tumor in the center of his brain. She nursed him through several brain operations, radiotherapy, from Switzerland, to New York, to Colorado and back to Hawaii, where he had a dramatic remission thanks to an ancient Chinese herbal treatment.

In 1984 she broke up with Andrew, sailed to China, and discovered the work of a gifted artist, Huang Ge Sheng. She brought his works back to the U.S. and organized an art exhibition with photographs at a Palm Springs Art Gallery in 1985. She then worked on a film project which took her to New York, South America and England. In 1986 she returned to China, and organized more art exhibitions of Huang Ge Sheng’s work in Los Angeles and Hawaii in 1987. She helped with publicity for an exhibition of his work at the Sunbird Gallery in Los Altos in 1987, and stayed on to work at the Art Gallery.

In 1988 she met Jean-Luc Brouillet and moved to Palo Alto. She married Jean-Luc in March 1990. Their children, Jules, Jeremy, and Daniel are now 17, 15, and 12 years old and attend Terman Middle School and Gunn High School.

In 1992, she saw the film, “JFK” which changed her life dramatically. She began doing research on the CIA, the government, discovered the “alternative press,” and the peace and justice community. Her talents in public relations inspired her to be a “media activist” and promote the critical issues that were censored or ignored by the corporate press. She has tried to balance activism with motherhood and is very fortunate to have a wonderful husband who is great with children, and able to take care of them when she has gone on trips for conferences, protests, speaking engagements.

In '92 she also read excerpts compiled by Dave Ratcliffe on the health effects of low-level radiation which prompted her to compile and edit The Invisible Nuclear War about the effects of low-level radiation, the massive government cover-up, and the continuing battle waged by the Nuclear Powers against All Life on Earth. (She worked with a publisher, but printed pamphlet versions of the book for distribution at a Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Conference and for Congress whom she lobbied that month. One reason for the book was to prevent more nuclear testing at the Nevada site. That legislation was passed and she was able to celebrate the victory with other anti-nuclear activists in DC while she was there getting her book out to Congress. On her return, the publisher said he felt the issue was “No longer timely and she shelved it, as she entered her ninth month of pregnancy.)

She helped co-found the International Media Project, which produces a half hour weekly radio program called Making Contact, now heard on 185 stations. She helped to promote the film and book, Manufacturing Consent- Noam Chomsky and the Media.

She also helped found the Who's Counting Project, which promotes the film Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies & Global Economics. Most recently, she helped found the Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance. All of these non-profit organizations seek to connect people, vital ideas and important information to nurture healthy social change, economic justice and ecological sustainability.

Her activism has spanned a wide range of issues. In 1993 she read Debt Virus, A Compelling Solution to the World's Debt Problems by Jaques Jaikaran and an article by Paul Glover "Creating Economic Democracy" and began writing on Money – one of our civilization's largest blind spots. She helped sponsor the first Local Currency Conference that was organized by the E.F. Schumacher Society. She organized a panel and workshop on local currencies at The Other Economic Summit in Denver, Colorado when the G8 was meeting in ’97. She has spoke and given workshops on Global Economics, Money and Community Currencies in many states, as well as in Italy and Brazil. Her paper “Reinventing Money, Restoring the Earth, Reweaving the Web of Life” was recognized by the Millennium Institute as one of the best ideas for the new millennium and has been translated and reprinted in many publications in the United States and around the world.

In January '98, she organized the first "Gathering on Strategies to Transform the Global Economy," in February '99, she organized a second "Gathering." There was so much energy gathered that 24 people volunteered to help six months later with The August Gathering.

Instead of organizing another Gathering in January, 2001, she tried to mobilize North Americans to go to the first World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 25-30, 2001, at the same time that the World Economic Forum was meeting in Switzerland. Energized by the historic event, she was working on combating the FTAA, the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, and corporate globalization, speaking out against the FTAA, writing, and organizing in the U.S. in 2001. She worked with the Bay Area Coalition to Stop the FTAA and has organized many events, marches, protests, rallies in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland on many issues.

Shaken by the events of September 11th, she has worked tirelessly since then to counter the assaults upon civil liberties and oppose the “War on Terrorism,” war on Afghanistan, war on Iraq, by exposing the underlying truths behind the war propaganda.

Since October 2001, she has held a weekly listening project- Listening for a Change, every Wednesday, 11 am to 1 pm, except when it is raining. In November 2001, she visited Senator Feinstein’s office and asked to meet with staff to talk about her concerns about the events of September 11th.

She organized a march and rally on Senator Feinstein’s office on January 8, 2002 which raised serious questions about 9-11. She and a delegation from many Peace and Human Rights’ organizations met with Senator Feinstein and Boxers' staff to Demand a Congressional Inquiry of 9/11.

A subsequent march on Congresswoman Eshoo’s office received television coverage. Subsequently Bush and Cheney asked Daschle to limit the investigation and have it overseen by the very men who should have been investigated for their role in 9-11.

In 2002 her energies were devoted to exposing The Truth About 9-11. The local paper did a cover story, November 20, 2002 on "The Rising Local peace movement gathering steam," which profiled a number of activists, including Carol; while a good story, they did omit the gist of her "work."

She has received good press from NPR, the San Jose Mercury News, the Christian Science Monitor, but generally they have omitted the 9-11 work. She is also in numerous television programs, radio programs, documentaries, speaking on global economics and 9-11.

One of the best tools that Carol and artist, Blaine Machan, developed to empower, encourage, bring a smile to everyone's face, raise consciousness on 9-11 has been the Deception Dollar, which was first printed in October 2002. 10,000 were published in October; 100,000 in December, 500,000 in February, one million in March. The seventh edition was printed- with 750,000 Deception Dollars and 250,000 Media Deception Dollars; in December 2004, the eighth edition included a new Media Deception Dollar, a Billion Dollar Note, an Election Deception Dollar (over 500,000), as well as the traditional Deception Dollars; there are now over 5,000,000 in circulation and six million in print.

In April 2003, Carol and Blaine, risked their entire Deception Dollar printing fund to put on a couple of major events in San Francisco and Palo Alto- along with 9-11 activists from the Bay Area, the budding 9-11 Truth Alliance, they screened Aftermath- Unanswered Questions from 9-11 with Guerrilla News Network, Mike Ruppert, Peter Dale Scott, Riva Enteen, Barry Zwicker and Richard Heinberg and a lively panel/ Q & A following the film. At the beautiful Herbst Theatre in the heart of San Francisco (which holds nearly a thousand people), they had a full house, had to turn 300 people away and received a standing ovation. In Palo Alto over 400 people come to the event.

In 2003, Carol began organizing the San Francisco International Inquiry into 9-11, and a comedy benefit to help people get through the psychological barriers surrounding 9-11, and learn a few facts well packaged with humor.

The Comedy Benefits - Behind Every Terrorist There is a Bush, and the San Francisco International Inquiry, Phase One – took place in February and March 2004. The Inquiry attracted many journalists, documentary film makers, and helped spark the growing 9-11 Truth Movement. She also helped with the International Inquiry into 9-11, Phase Two, which took place in Toronto in May 2004.

She was outraged to discover that Congresswoman Eshoo was a Co-Sponsor of legislation to reorganize and “improve” the “Intelligence Agencies” and organized a series of protests and rallies in August and September, 2004, against the "Police State Legislation."

Late 2004, The Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance formally became a project of Agape Foundation. She spoke at the International Conference on the Gift Economy primarily about the psychological barriers to 9-11.

In 2005, she, along with Veteran’s for Peace, and Project Censored, The Northern California Truth Alliance, organized a series of very successful premieres of Barrie Zwicker’s documentary- The Great Conspiracy- The 9-11 News Special You Never Saw, which drew together activists from Canada and all over the country, press and public. The San Francisco Bay Guardian highlighted her in its 5088 word cover story on the 9-11 Truth Movement last year.

In 2005, she organized an Art Contest with the theme- 9-11 Truth for Peace and Justice, and worked to bring together the 9-11 Truth Movement with the Peace and Justice Movement. She also produced a film of the comedy event with videographer, Ken Jenkins, which premiered at the Grand Lake Theater on September 11th, and should be seen soon on Free Speech TV. She has helped to get 9-11 Truth shows on Community Access Stations throughout the country by supporting 9-11 Truth TV.

Her decision to not return to college, but to write instead, has resulted in zero books published, although many of her friends are now book publishers who have asked her to write books. She doesn’t have time, and writes articles, fliers, speeches, press releases, her blog, instead, while organizing, attending meetings and trying to give attention, and care for her family.

She loves her family, friends, playing, reading, swimming, hiking, camping, dancing, but has a tendency to overwork. She simply loves people and organizing and feels like her work has, will, and does make a difference and can help shift the world off the war path in a more hopeful direction. Her mentors were Bob Swann, the President of the E.F. Schumacher Society, a pioneer in land and monetary reform, and Bill Moyer, author of Doing Democracy, who worked for decades empowering social movements and giving workshops on individual and systemic transformation. They were wonderful role models, extremely effective, and had a lot of fun in the process.

She hopes that the campaign will be a learning experience for her and others who become involved with it, and that it will teach them skills to help in future campaigns, as well as raise the visibility of her causes and build a stronger Truth, Peace, Justice, Impeachment Movement. She was very inspired over Christmas with the book- Politics The Wellstone Way, a “how to win an election book” describing the methods used by the late Senator Paul Wellstone, a teacher and grassroots organizer, who won an election despite the “odds.”