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Tom Llewellyn is the Network Coordinator for the international Sharing Cities Network, a project of Shareable. He is a co-founder and coordinator of the REAL Cooperative (Regenerative Education, Action and Leadership), is a partner in the Asheville Tool Library and is leading the development of the new Share Asheville initiative. He co-founded and managed the Critter Cafe, which raised money for a small public school and brought the entire community together to share a meal every weekend in 2007 in the small town of Canyon, CA. As the Education and Activism Director of Sustainable Living Roadshow (SLR) from 2008 – 2012 he toured the U.S. producing eco events, leading workshops and participating in a wide variety of actions and campaigns. In addition to being the lead production manager for SLR he was a founding member of A PLACE for Sustainability in Oakland, CA and was on the steering committee and co-lead the Right2Know March (for GMO labeling) from NYC-D.C. in 2011.  He has also spent time organizing to stop the expansion of: the Alberta tar sands, genetically engineered trees and the woody biomass industry in addition to many other causes. Currently working as a consultant for The Dogwood Alliance in Asheville, NC, he organizes in support of the Our Forests Aren't Fuel campaign targeting the expansion of the wood pellet and biomass industries in the Southern US and recently produced the short investigative documentary Wetlands Up In Smoke. Tom graduated Summa Cum Laude from San Francisco State University with a self-designed degree in Mind/Body Studies, is a Certified Massage Therapist and has a Permaculture Design Certificate. Drawing from years of experience as the director of the Canyon After School Program and Clever Scamp Summer Camp, as well as a rich background in theatrical performance and storytelling, he brings his playful creativity to environmental and political causes and actions.

Caitlin Quigley helped launch the Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance. She is a member of Mariposa Food Co-op, The Energy Co-op, and Philadelphia Federal Credit Union. She also writes a monthly column about Philly co-ops for Generocity.org. While living in Bellingham, WA, Caitlin co-founded the Whatcom Investing Network, a forum to facilitate investments between local investors and local businesses.

Noel Ortega is the coordinator of the New Economy Working Group (NEWGroup), which is an informal partnership between YES! Magazine, the Institute for Policy Studies, the Living Economies Forum, and the Democracy Collaborative, the Institute for Local Self-reliance, and the New Economy Coalition.

The distinctive role of NEWGroup is to serve as a virtual policy think tank and communications resource for the growing number of civil society groups concerned with economic justice, environmental sustainability, and peace that are forming alliances and coalitions under a New Economy banner to put forward a bold vision and implementing strategy for a New Economy that works for all of Earth’s people and the living systems on which their well-being depends.

Joe Guinan is a Senior Fellow at The Democracy Collaborative and Executive Director of the Next System Project. Born in England with dual Irish and British citizenship, he grew up in British labor movement circles and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He writes regularly for progressive outlets in the UK, including openDemocracy and the journal Renewal.

Paul Glover is founder of Ithaca HOURS local currency, Philadelphia Orchard Project (POP), League of Uninsured Voters (LUV), Citizen Planners of Los Angeles, Patch Adams Free clinic, Ithaca Health Alliance and a dozen more groups that transfer power to America's grassroots.  You can send him an email here.

Matthew Slater builds and implements open source software for social & complementary currencies. As a full nomad, he knows first hand many people and projects in his field. In 2009 he co-founded with Tim Anderson the Swiss association Community Forge which freely hosts web sites for LETS and timebanks. He is also active in thinking and educating about money. In 2013 He co-created the 'trading floor game' with Sybille Saint Girons. In 2015 he co-authored the Money and Society MOOC with Professor Jem Bendell. In 2016 he co-authored the Credit Commons white paper with Tim Jenkin.

Sarah Taub, Ph.D is a cultural activist whose passion is creating events where people transform. She teaches the skills of peaceful, sustainable community, self-awareness, honesty, clear boundaries, and facilitates group processes of many sorts, including consensus decision-making, business meetings and retreats, ZEGG Forum, and conflict resolution sessions. Sarah co-founded the first cohousing community in Washington, DC, and for the past 12 years has lived at Chrysalis, a small urban intentional community in Arlington, VA whose mission is to support activists and healers (www.chrysalis-va.org). Since 2004, she has been a major organizer of Network for a New Culture's East Coast Summer Camp (www.cfnc.us) and other events aimed at creating a culture based on awareness, compassion, and freedom rather than on fear and judgment. In 2006, she left her tenured professorship in Cognitive Linguistics at Gallaudet University to focus full-time on events, community-building, and cultural change. Since 2011, she has been the financial and programs manager for Abrams Creek Center (www.abramscreekcenter.com), a retreat center and community in the mountains of West Virginia.

Sarah has been facilitating ZEGG Forum at New Culture events since 2004. She participated in and assisted at three Forum trainings with Teryani Riggs and has completed several Forum trainings with Ina Meyer-Stoll and Achim Ecker of ZEGG, including a 16-day facilitation training at Ganas Community in New York. She coordinated or co-coordinated the Forum team at New Culture Summer Camp West from 2008 to 2011, coordinated the Forum team at New Culture Summer Camp Central Oregon in 2011 and 2012, and has been on the Forum team at New Culture Summer Camp East since 2008. She has been teaching Forum facilitation with Debby Sugarman since 2011, and is deeply committed to Forum as a tool of large-group transparency and transformation.

Teryani writes at the Living Awareness Institute Blog