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Araz Hachadourian wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Araz, formerly a reporting intern, is now a social media intern at YES! Follow her at @ahachad2

Fabiane Kravutschke Bogdanovicz is a Brazilian social psychologist. She worked for 4 years as a Solidarity Economy Technician at a University Social Incubator, supporting the organization of cooperatives and associations in the areas of artisan crafts and agroecological agriculture (organized by the Landless Workers Movement), and community associations. She has been a representative at Solidarity Economy Regional and State Forums, City Council, and National Conference, among other political spaces. She is a researcher of Social Movements, Communities and Participatory Democracy.

Pamela Boyce Simms is an evolutionary culture designer and a veteran of thirty years of nonprofit leadership and movement-building. She is a Buddhist-Quaker thought leader, Executive Coach, and writer. Boyce Simms is a proponent of perpetual self-transformation as the true engine of authentic social change, especially as systems disruptions accelerate. She is the principal of Singularity Botanicals and convenes the Community Supported Enlightenment (CSE) Network: an international community of practitioners who synthesize ancient wisdom tradition practices sharpened by cutting edge techniques drawn from neuroscience to resolve complex challenges. Boyce Simms holds degrees from Georgetown University, the Université de Dakar, in Sénégal, West Africa, and is certified as a Leadership Coach, Neurolinguistics Master Practitioner and Kagyu Buddhist Meditation Instructor.

Rob Brown wrote this article for New Economy Week, a collaboration between the New Economy Coalition and YES! Magazine. Rob is a Cooperative Development Specialist and the Director of the Cooperative Development Institute’s Business Ownership Solutions (BOS) program. Formerly, he was the Maine Housing Program Specialist in CDI’s NEROC program.  He has a background in community organizing, communications, non-profit and for-profit business development, and public policy development and advocacy.

The Laura Flanders Show is a TV and radio program that seeks to raise radical spirits by interviewing forward-thinking people who have real experience of shifting power, from the few to the many, in the worlds of arts, entrepreneurship and politics.

Amanda Huron is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C. Her research interests are in urban geography, city planning, housing, the urban commons, community mapping, and Washington, D.C. She has published on her research into D.C.'s limited-equity cooperatives and the urban commons in the journals Washington History (2014) and Antipode (2015), and has published a piece on relationships built between housing organizers in Washington, D.C. and Johannesburg in the edited volume Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality in Washington, D.C. (2015). Amanda is a native of Washington's Ward 1, and lives there today.