Tag: All Girl Skate Jam

  • Patty Segovia AGSJ

    Patty Segovia AGSJ

    Patty Segovia (Krause) was born and raised in Los Angeles and is revered for being the organizer and promoter of the All Girl Skate Jam (AGSJ) from 1997-2013, as well as a photographer. The AGSJ started out in 1990 as a girls’ vert demo at an NSA contest in Reno, Nevada, before returning with a…

  • Jodi McDonald

    Jodi McDonald

    Jodi McDonald from West Palm Beach, Florida began skateboarding in 1986 when she was 14 years old, and according to fellow vert skater Heidi Fitzgerald, “Jodi brought speed, aggression – it was like, beautiful chaos when she skated.” [October 24th Update: Jodi’s battle with breast cancer continues, so please enjoy this post but consider donating…

  • JoAnn Gillespie

    JoAnn Gillespie

    JoAnn Gillespie, AKA Rawkmom, is given props in the book Skater Girl: a girls’ guide to skateboarding (2007) by Patty Segovia and Rebecca Heller for her role in taking on the Women’s Skateboard Network in 1991, which had been established by Lynn Kramer in 1989 through the ‘zine Equal Time and had grown to some…

  • Lauren Mollica

    Lauren Mollica

    Lauren Mollica of New Brunswick, New Jersey (born in 1980) initially was a snowboarder, although she started dabbling in skateboarding in the late 1980s with her brothers. Lauren received her first board when she was 8 years-old, which was a Sims Kevin Staab, that she bought specifically because it featured pirates, combined with purple grip,…