GRITtv is the online home of journalist and author Laura Flanders. After years as a media critic, radio host and TV commentator, Flanders founded GRITtv with Free Speech TV in 2008, to give “meaningful attention to the world’s most important marginalized experts.”
Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA) is a worker-owned cooperative that creates imaginative and experiential resources that transform the way people think, learn, teach, work, and act. These resources address social change, economic justice, and progressive education through critical thinking and user participation.
Aurora DeMarco has over 30 years of community organizing experience.She has written and published on various topics including health care; child care; migrant workers; parenting; women's issues and cyberbullying. She has worked with senior advocates pushing for Health Care for All , This coalition was successful in helping to pass a single-payer bill through the NYS Assembly. Aurora is a Licensed Massage Therapist with a specialty in working with Trauma Survivors. Aurora has worked as a Grief Counselor for Hospice of New York. She developed and presented workshops on working with trauma survivors in hospice settings. She most recently facilitated a workshop on providing elder and hospice care in intentional communities. She lives in an intentional community on Staten Island, New York and is working with Point A a collective dedicated to building more intentional income-sharing, egalitarian urban communities.
Devra Gartenstein founded Patty Pan Grill, a farmers' market
Linda Hogan is a social architect, writer and activist for peace. Her first professional incarnation was achieved within a myriad of human service organizations in local and national organizations. Linda prefers local, cooperative activism that promotes the authentic wealth and reclaimed application of community currency. She is an unapologetic, heart based storyteller with a bumper sticker that reads “Destined To Be An Old Woman With No Regrets.”