A feminist activist, scholar, and peace activist and mother to Odin, an artist and designer. She headed the women’s studies program and taught the sociology of policing at Beit Berl College, and has published extensively on these subjects. Dr. Shadmi was co-founder of the Kol Ha-Isha feminist center in Jerusalem and the Fifth Mother women’s peace movement, and an activist with Women in Black, B’Tselem human rights center, Ahoti for Women, and the Isha L’Isha women’s center in Haifa. She is currently spearheading a campaign to establish a multicultural women’s museum in Yeruham and is active in global movements to promote the maternal gift economy and modern matriarchal studies.