# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/medea-benjamin
# Generated: 2026-09-03T11:25:42.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/medea-benjamin"
name: "Medea Benjamin"
slug: "medea-benjamin"
description: "Medea Benjamin is an American political activist who, along with Jodie Evans and others, co-founded Code Pink. She also co-founded, along with her then husband Kevin Danaher, the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. Benjamin was the Green Party nominee in the 2000 United States Senate election in California, running under the name Medea Susan Benjamin. She finished in third place with 326,828 votes (3.1%)."
tagline: "American political activist and author"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1952-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump