Jean Arden Eversmeyer, born in 1931, is a long-time resident of Houston, a graduate of Texas State College of Women (1951), and a life-long lesbian. She spent several decades improving the lives of her fellow citizens including serving 23 years working at the Houston Zoological Gardens and serving 6 years as the Mayor's appointee to the Area Agency on Aging.

She helped form LOAF, Lesbians Over age Fifty, a social network designed to ensure a safe environment for mid-life and old lesbians. In 1998 Arden began collecting oral history interviews done with lesbians 70 and older, this initiative grew into a very successful and impressive contribution to the LGBTQ community, this is now known as the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project (OLOHP). Over 600 of these oral stories are now archived in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College in Northampton, MA. She also donated much of her personal library of lesbian books, music, videos, and memorabilia to the Texas A&M University Libraries. Arden continued for the remainder of her life to serve as the Project's Director,until she passed away in November 2022.