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John is a Co-Executive Director of the Northwest Cooperative Development Center and also teaches Strategic Advantage with the International Centre for Co-operative Management at the Sobey School of Business. Prior to joining NWCDC as a co-op development specialist, he spent 26 years with Union Cab of Madison, serving in a number of roles. He also served 4 years on the board of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives and currently services on the Executive Committees of both the Policy and Advocacy Council and the Union-Coops Council. John  was a founding member of the Democracy at Work Network and just recently completed a term on the board of CooperationWorks!. He serves on the WA State Employee Ownership Commission and on the Steering Committee of the WA State Center for Employee Ownership. His dissertation examines how the style of management in worker owned or controlled co-ops may assist or deter alliance with the Cooperative Identity by the ability of workers to be engaged in the governance and operations of their cooperative.

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About the Author: Californian working in England and Wales, fellow of new economics foundation and a research associate of Co-operatives UK. He specialises in action research and development that focuses on innovative forms of economic democracy and community land trusts. He has specialized in innovative work on Commons solutions since 1999. Many of these solutions are covered in his 2012 book with Mike Lewis The Resilience Imperative: Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy. In Commons Sense (2014), a book he co-edited with Martin Large, the case is made for democratically capturing economic rents and land values through co-operative place making and 21st century Garden Cities.

Nic Wistreich has spent 15 years working in independent film and web design.  He has edited and co-authored several books on film financing and is the co-founder of the indie film website Netribution.  His full bio and CV is available on his website.

Frank Cetera is President of the Cooperative Federal Credit Union.