Photo by Chris Tank.

You may not know the name Concepcion Picciotto, but you’ve almost certainly seen the peace vigil that she maintained by the White House since 1981.

Picciotto died today at N Street Village, a shelter for homeless women in Logan Circle, as first reported by the Washington Post. She was around 80 years old.

Her peace vigil included a tent and a barrage of different protest signs, set up in Lafayette Park.

Picciotto told DCist in 2005 that “corruption” inspired her to protest outside the White House, and she railed against nuclear weapons and lying politicians.

Do you think that we’ll ever have a good leader?

We hope that there is one, that is what we are trying to do. There must be people out there who qualify, and then we never are able to get them into the palace, because there is so much money involved, millions and millions of dollars. And it shouldn’t be that way. It should be the qualifications of a person to lead the nation to peace and stability.

When Park Police seized the vigil in September 2013, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton intervened on her behalf. Picciotto “is well known for her willingness to engage in principled activism at considerable personal costs,” Norton said at the time.

DCist asked Picciotto in 2005 what she would do if “all the madness that you are protesting did stop in your lifetime.”

“I don’t know,” she replied.