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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.

Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.

Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.

Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.

Gregory Patmore is an Emeritus Professor of Business and Labour History, University of Sydney.

Amidu Mutaru is a first year PhD student at the Anthropology department of the University of Toronto. He is from northeastern Ghana, and holds an MSc in African Studies from Oxford University. His research interests lie in the theoretical crossroads between youth cultures, activism, social movements, informal economies, livelihoods, cyber frauds, and the anthropology of morality. He is currently developing his PhD thesis topic along these lines. He has worked as a research assistant on diverse projects including the "Black Social Economy in Toronto" project from which this piece emerges. On this project, Amidu worked with the "Banker Ladies" and carried out global research on the ROSCAs for Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein, his supervisor who has worked on solidarity economies, ROSCAS and informal finances for more than a decade.

Mike De Socio is a freelance journalist and photographer based in upstate New York. His reporting focuses on cities, climate change, and the LGBTQ+ community.