Author

Leah Penniman wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Leah is a farmer and educator based in the Albany, New York, area.

Sara Stephens is the Sustainable Econoimies Law Center (SELC) Housing and Cooperatives Attorney.

Nathan Scheider is the author of, most recently, Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse. Follow his work on Twitter @nathanairplane and on his website, TheRowBoat.com.

Stacco Troncoso (Spain) is the advocacy coordinator of the P2P Foundation as well as the project lead for Commons Transition, the P2PF’s main communication and advocacy hub. He is also co-founder of the P2P translation collective Guerrilla Translation and designer/content editor for CommonsTransition.org, the P2P Foundation blog and the new Commons Strategies Group website. His work in communicating commons culture extends to public speaking and relationship-building with prefigurative communities, policymakers and potential commoners worldwide.

Stacco Troncoso and Ann Marie Utratel are part of the P2P Foundation, one of the members of the P2Pvalue consortium, a co-organizer of the event.

Luci Latina Fernandes is an Applied Anthropologist, whose goal is to assist the people in the Amazon region by supporting the Kallari Handcraft Cooperative and by helping create new community development programs for the Kichwa that aim at improving their quality of life.