Eve Jacobs-Carnahan created Knit Democracy Together in 2020 to engage crafters while expanding their democracy literacy. The project grows out of her background as a lawyer. She served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Vermont from 1990-2018, specializing in election law litigation. In 2018, she turned to art full time and began telling stories about democracy through artwork.

Eve has held more than 30 Knit Democracy Together circles since 2020, in Vermont libraries and museums, across New Hampshire with New Hampshire Humanities, and online in Chicago and Rochester, N.Y. Participants have collaborated in the creation of knitted state capitols in four states. Eve has written a chapter about the project for Global Craftivism, Handcraft Responses to Violence, War, Illness and Isolation, edited by Hinda Mandell (Rowman & Littlefield 2025).

National Arts Strategies named Eve a Creative Community Fellow: New England for 2022. The fellowship supported the development of Knit Democracy Together. She holds a B.A. with honors in History from Swarthmore College and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. She lives in Montpelier, the capital of Vermont.

You can find her knitted sculptures at evejacobs-carnahan.com.