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David J. Thompson is president of Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation and co-owner of Neighborhood Partners LLC. He was inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame in 2010. Thompson is the author of four books and over 400 articles about affordable housing and cooperatives. During his professional career, Thompson has developed or co-developed housing that is home to over 10,000 people.

The Sydney Southeast Asia Centre is forging Australia’s relationship with one of the world’s fastest growing regions by educating students and building new partnerships with academics and governments based on research excellence. With more than 400 academics across all 11 Southeast Asian countries, the University of Sydney has one of the highest concentrations of regional expertise in the world. From its central position within the University, the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre offers an innovative and engaged approach that reflects the region’s complexity and recognises its importance to Australia’s future.

Tenaya has over two decades of experience in adult education, including work in unions and workers centers as a labor organizer and educator, at City College of San Francisco as an ESL teacher, and teaching social justice classes with incarcerated women. Through this work she has developed a passion for creating educational programs that build on the knowledge that participants bring, and that support working people’s collective agency to have more say in their working conditions and lives. Bay Area organizations she has worked with include the San Francisco Day Labor Project, Young Workers United, HERE Local 2, UAW 2865, and the Choices drug recovery program in the San Mateo County Jail. Tenaya has an MA in Education from UC Berkeley and a doctorate in Education from the University of San Francisco, focusing on the role of popular education in community and labor organizing. Her current projects at LOHP include new partnerships with unions, disaster preparedness training for Spanish-speaking workers, curriculum development for “high road” employers, and health and safety training for school staff.

Miriam Axel-Lute is CEO/editor-in-chief of Shelterforce. She lives in Albany, New York, and is a proud small-city aficionado.

Richard Flyer is a community networking and development specialist whose work is based on spirituality, consciousness, and embodying universal principles and values. He’s been building local community for 40+ years.

Two mental health professionals explore how our capitalist economic system impacts our emotional lives. From precarious housing and employment, to unaffordable healthcare, to endless debt -- it's not just in your head!

The co-op factory is a meet up group for co-op makers based in Bellingham, WA.

Lilia Stubrin is a researcher on productive and STI policies at the Argentine National Research Council (CONICET) and deputy director of the Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformación (CENIT) at Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Argentina.

We work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education, and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way.

Co-ops Not Cages is an Illinois-based worker cooperative social media business in our startup period. Within internationalist and anti-carceral lenses, our objective is to promote and support already-existing worker cooperatives without forgetting the realities of the carceral system and the pressing need for prisoner support. We are also a resource to inspire people to begin their journey to develop their own worker co-operatives or join an existing one.