Carridder "Rita" Jones is a co-founder of Women Who Write.  She is a playwright and a published writer.  Her plays have been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Kentucky Center for the Arts Mex Theatre, University of Louisville Theatre and the Market House Theatre in Paducah, Kentucky.  Jones has received grants from The Kentucky Foundation for Women, Tennessee Williams Playwright Scholarship, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Pilgrim Project of New York and the University of Louisville Women's Center.  In 2003, she completed a historical research project for the Filson Historical Society on Early African American Communities in Jefferson County.  She is presently co-producing a documentary in the Kentucky Bluegrass Region and has adapted a play for the Oldham County History Center from "Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave." Bibb was born in 1813-1814 just south of New Castle, Kentucky.