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Luke Wreford (Cambridge, UK) has worked in NGOs and grassroots projects on environmental issues, and is now an independent mindfulness trainer and researcher, and a co-organiser of the Mindfulness and Social Change Network (MSCN).

Paula Haddock (Oxford, UK) worked in international development for 10 years. She now divides her time between training at the Ulex Project, consulting for NGOs, teaching mindfulness and co-organising the Mindfulness for Social Change Network.

Brigit McCone is an Irish writer and lecturer who specializes in 19th century Russian and Ukrainian literature, with a dark past in event organizing, cabaret and stand-up.

aroundtheworld.coop is a project dreamt and developed by Andrea and Sara, a married couple who decided to put together their passions and skills and embark on a thrilling experience of a lifetime: traveling around the world for one year, documenting different sorts of cooperatives on all the continents.

The project has also been possible thanks to the partnership with the International Co-operative Alliance and its regional offices. We are very honoured of this collaboration and extremely grateful to all cooperators around the world who will be partnering with us.

Nina Ignaczak writes and edits stories about all aspects of people and place: development, entrepreneurship, transportation, education, energy, policy, tech, the sharing economy, local food and agriculture, and the environment. She also loves telling (and visualizing) the stories behind the data.

REAS, Network of Networks for the Alternative and Solidarity Economy, is a group of more than 500 entities from smaller territorial and sectoral networks within the Spanish State. REAS was created to offer alternatives to the dehumanization of the economy, the degradation of the environment, and the loss of social values.

The increase in poverty and social inequality, social and economic exclusion, unemployment and precarious work are problems that pose challenges and demand responses. This is why REAS promotes the Solidarity Economy, their instrument for creating a more just, solidarity-based, sustainable and engaged society.

REAS’ main goal is to enable another way to focus and manage the economy. REAS believes that it is time to stop suffering from decisions taken by others and to rise up and put humanity at the core of our economies. Find out more about REAS on their website.

Each For All: The Co-operative Connection is a one-hour weekly current affairs and advocacy program bringing you profiles, interviews, and reports from the world of co-ops.