Author

David McCarthy is an activist and writer in the realm of new economics. He is the co-founder of the Hudson Valley Current and author of the book Civil Endowment — The Transformation of Economic Power.

Maria Reidelbach is an author, artist and local food activist working with farmers in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Her most recent book is the Stick to Local Farms Cookbook.

David McCarthy is an activist and writer in the realm of new economics. He is the co-founder of the Hudson Valley Current and author of the book Civil Endowment — The Transformation of Economic Power.

Maria Reidelbach is an author, artist and local food activist working with farmers in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Her most recent book is the Stick to Local Farms Cookbook.

Pamela Boyce Simms, KD2GUF, is a Convener of the Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub and an Eco-Buddhist-Quaker environmental activist.

Brett Barndt is a social researcher currently working on narrative approaches to engaging ordinary people in money system reform as part of the transition to sustainability.

Jennifer Bryant is a DC-based writer, organizer and radio host. She is a founding steering committee member of Cooperation DC (a project of ONE DC). Cooperation DC's mission is to expand opportunities for dignified employment and democratic ownership in low-income communities of color through the development of worker-owned cooperatives. Jennifer co-hosts Voices with Vision - a weekly radio show on WPFW 89.3FM - and produces Agenda 2016, the station's national elections coverage.

Tsvetan is a developer at Camplight digital cooperative.  Follow his blog on github.

Development and Peace was established in 1967 by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in response to Pope Paul VI's encyclical letter Populorum Progressio, which says that Development is the new word for Peace. Peace cannot be seen simply as the absence of war. It must be built daily, and it must strive towards a more perfect justice among human beings (Populorum Progressio, 76). That founding principle of Development and Peace is still maintained today.

Development and Peace seeks ways to help people of all faiths in the Third World break the cycle of poverty through community-based, sustainable development initiatives. Over the years, the focus of Development and Peace shifted from a "project-based" organization to a "program-based" organization.

Development and Peace supports partners working in order to improve living conditions in 70 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Middle East. Our programs involve issues relating to people’s right to better education, women’s equality, agrarian reform, housing and cooperative movements. The funds we send abroad support grassroots organizations run by people who know first hand the issues facing the developing world. These overseas partners help us determine the nature of our agency’s involvement abroad. Since our inception we have funded 15,200 projects world-wide.

After training in biology, anthropology, psychology, and communication, and after several jobs as a community manager, web project manager, and in fair trade, and after passing through the different statuses of employed, freelance, and shopkeeper, Maïa Dereva suffered a severe burn-out at the end of which she said: “Now I want to work exclusively for the common good.” She then created the website semeoz.info which is an observatory of collaborative and constructive practices, and devotes time to many projects such as the P2P Foundation.