Adrienne is a 2013 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow writing science fiction in Detroit. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements with Walidah Imarisha.

Alexandre Zwicker Galimberti is a restaurant professional with over eight years experience in the industry. He
holds a Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy degree from Boston University, an Associate in Occupational Studies

Climbing PoeTree is the combined force of Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman.

I’ve written a few books and played a few pranks. I’m a long-time veteran of creative campaigns for social change. I started a company. We won a few awards. On a good day I’m funny. On a bad day, political. On a really bad day, philosophical.

Anne Phillips was raised in a modest working and middle-class neighborhood outside of the Twin Cities.

Ashley-Rose is the Youth Organizer for the first youth participatory
budgeting process in the US, in Boston. She is an educator, artist and
community organizer from Boston who attended Northeastern University.

Barry Lynn directs the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, and is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.

Ben Roberts offers professional process hosting in person and virtually through the Conversation Collaborative.

Brendan Martin is founder and director of The Working World, a cooperative financial institution and business incubator based in Argentina, Nicaragua, and the United States.

Brett Fleishman is a Senior Analyst for 350.org, whose work is focused on the campaign to divest from fossil fuels

Caitlin Pearce is Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives at Freelancers Union, the nation's largest group representing the growing independent workforce.

Cathy O’Keefe M.Ed., CTRS retired from a 40 year career as a recreation practitioner and faculty member in Leisure Studies at the University of South Alabama in Mobile.

Christine is the Program Director at the Center For Story Based Strategy.  She believes that people power can change the world. That's why she's dedicated herself to strong strategies – in our organizing, our campaigns, and our stories.

Cylvia Hayes is currently the First Lady of Oregon, where she is spearheading development and implementation of a Genuine Progress Indicator for the state.

Dan is Lead Organiser of the campaigns team at NEF in London. He runs the New Economy Organisers Network (NEON) programme, training and bringing together campaigners from unions, faith groups, NGOs and grass roots groups.

David Levine is the co-founder and chief executive officer of the American Sustainable Business Council.

Deirdre Smith began organizing around water rights and coal impacts in her New Mexico community as a teenager.

Ed Whitfeld is co-founder and co-managing director of the Fund for Democratic Communities (F4DC).

Eliza Parad has been doing housing organizing in and around Boston
since 2009 after working with grassroots organizations in Chile for 3
years. From 2010-2013 she was an organizer at the Chelsea

Esteban Kelly is the lead organizer for the New Economy Coalition.

Felipe Witchger, Executive Director, Community Purchasing Alliance, leads the cooperative efforts of the 130+ participating religious, education, and community institutions in the greater Washington D.C./Baltimore metropolitan areas.

Gopal has been involved in fighting for social, economic, environmental and racial justice through organizing & campaigning, teaching, writing, speaking and direct action since the late 1980's.

Hannah Jones is an organizer for the Responsible Endowments Coalition. She first encountered REC while working on Swarthmore Mountain Justice's fossil fuel divestment campaign.

Helen Scharber is an assistant professor of economics at Hampshire College. She holds a B.A. in economics from Knox College, an M.A. in environmental politics from Keele University, and an M.A. and Ph.D.

Jacklyn Gil is a recent graduate of Brandeis University majoring in Peace and Justice studies, with a focus in Peacebuilding Arts.

Jake Claro joined the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund in 2012 and serves as the Farm to Plate Network Assistant.

Jennifer Roach works with Grand Aspirations to coordinate a green economy training program in Hartford, CT called Summer of Solutions Hartford.

Jeremy Brecher [www.jeremybrecher.org] is a co-founder of the Labor Network for Sustainability [www.labor4sustainability.org].

Jigar Bhatt is a PhD candidate at the department of planning in the Graduate School for Architecture,...

Jim Oldham is Executive Director of Equity Trust, a small
Massachusetts-based non-profit working nationally to promote alternative
forms of land ownership--for farms, housing, local businesses and

Joe Rinehart is the Rural Programs Coordinator at the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives.  He got involved in the worker cooperative movement as a Peer Advisor in the Democracy at Work Network.

John Abrams is co-founder and CEO of South Mountain Company, a 37-year-old employee owned design/build and renewable energy company in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.

John Fullerton is the Founder and President of Capital Institute, and a recognized New Economy thought leader and public speaker. He is also an active impact investor through his Level 3 Capital Advisors.

Jovanna Garcia Soto is the Program Coordinator for Latin America at Grassroots International.

Julie Fox Gorte is the Senior Vice President for Sustainable Investing at Pax World Management Corporation. She oversees environmental, social, and governance-related research and advocacy.

Kamilah Moore was born and raised in the Los Angeles, CA area. She has just completed her undergraduate studies at UCLA, where she studied Political Science, Education and Film, Television & Digital Media.

Ken White is the Associate Director of the Post Carbon Institute and a founding Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory steward, and an appreciative participant in two TRCC co-labs.

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Lauren currently supports the national student responsible investment movement as National Organizer for the Responsible Endowments Coalition.

Leigh Dodson is a Ph.D. candidate in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She attended Vassar College (BA) and New York University, where she received a Masters in American Studies.

Lew Daly is Director of Policy and Research at Demos, with responsibilities for planning and managing research and policy development across the organization.

Lisa Conlan Lewis is  a  national  and  state  consultant  and  advocate  for  systems  reform,  social  justice

Lor Holmes is CERO Cooperative’s start up manager. She leads business
development and capitalization strategies and, like all of the CERO
worker-owners Lor shares a passion for environmental and social

Lydia Edwards is the Massachusetts Campaign Coordinator for the National Domestic Worker Alliance.

Margrete Strand Rangnes has worked extensively on issues related to trade and globalization; energy policies and climate change; and workers’ rights and economic development.

Marjorie Kelly is currently a Senior Fellow and Director of Consultancy Services at The Democracy Collaborative, a nonprofit research and consulting organization that specializes in community wealth building, a new paradigm of...

Mary O’Hara is currently the Director of ROC USA® Network, a national network of non-profit, certified technical assistance providers serving homeowners of for-sale manufactured home communities (a.k.a “mobile home parks”) who...

Michael Green is a Program Director at the Climate Liaison Action Coalition. Michael is a Northeastern University graduate with degrees in international affairs and environmental studies.

Michelle Miller is a workers’ rights activist and participatory media artist. She is the co-founder of Coworker.org, a digital platform that supports innovative, ground-up campaigns for workplace change.

Milicent Johnson is the Director of Partnerships for Peers. She draws on her extensive involvement at the forefront of the sharing economy movement.

Morgan Crawford is the Director of Educational Programs, North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO). He spends most of his free time thinking about cooperatives.

Neva Goodwin is Co-Director of the Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University.

Nicholas Hayes is the Faith Community Partnerships Organizer at the New Economy Coalition.

Orion Kriegman is the founder of Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition (JP NET), a project of the Institute for Policy Studies in Boston pioneering community resilience,and he is Co-Director of New England NET, doing the same at a...

Pamela Boyce Simms is a Trainer for Transition US, convenes the Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub (MATH) a six-state consortium that facilitates the collaboration of Transition Town initiatives throughout the region.

Rachel Plattus is Director of Youth and Student Organizing at the New Economy Coalition. She coordinates the Youth and Student Network and works to build community, organizational and funder engagement in the New Economy.

Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, where she has a joint appointment at the Harvard Business School in the General Management and Strategy units and is the Co-Director of the Business and...

Richard Healey is Executive Director of GPP, as well as its founder. In the 1970s, he was National Director of the New American Movement.

Sachie Hopkins Hayakawa is a Youth and Student Organizer with the New Economy Coalition. Sachie grew up in the rainy Pacific Northwest, where she began to develop a commitment to environmental and racial justice.

Sarah Baird is the Director of Outreach and Communications for the Center For A New American Dream.

Sarah Stranahan has more than 20 years of experience in mission related investing, community organizing, and social change philanthropy.

Scott Sawyer joined the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund in 2003 and is responsible for researching, creating, and evaluating VSJF projects and programs.

Stacy Mitchell directs ILSR’s Community-Scaled Economy Initiative, which produces research and analysis, and partners with a range of allies to design and implement policies that...

Susan Labandibar is the Founder of Climate Action Liaison Coalition and President of Tech Networks of Boston as well as a long-tome environmental and social justice activist.

Tim Lilienthal is the director of the Campaign for Economic Dignity at PICO National Network, a coalition of 50 faith-based community organizations composed of over 1,200 member congregations in 20 states.

Tom Llewellyn is the Network Coordinator for the international Sharing Cities Network, a project of Shareable.

Tracey Nichols is the Director of Economic Development for the City of Cleveland, Ohio.

Yahya Alazrak is the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Regional Organizer. He spent 4 years being a part of the Greenleaf Coffee Cooperative at Guilford College.