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Carl Ratner, PhD. is a cultural psychologist. He is the Director of the Institute for Cultural Research and Education based in Trinidad, California.

David Bollier is Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. He is also an author, activist, and blogger.  His full bio can be found on his blog.

Lauren Hudson is s a collective member of SolidarityNYC--an organization dedicated to promoting and supporting New York’s Solidarity Economy. Lauren also serves on the board of the Data Commons Cooperative and is a Cooperative Finance Leader for America Fellow at the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions. Her interests include participatory action research, human geography, and Patrick Stewart. She lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Tony Patterson lives in Ottawa in a boutique housing co-op called Catalpa. This is where his interest in the world of cooperatives originates. He kicked up his participation a level once the UN declared 2012 the Year of Cooperatives. In July 2012 he wrote Catalpa's submission to the House of Commons Special Committee on Cooperatives. In October 2012 he was a participant at the IYC International Summit of Cooperatives in Quebec City, and also at the preliminary IMAGINE conference on co-op economics. That same month he launched CO-OP CANADA ACCELERATOR, the blog about communications and community engagement. He loves Quebec City, where his first European ancestors landed almost 350 years ago.

Josh Davis is the GEO Content Manager. 

Cliff DuRand is a Research Associate at the Center for Global Justice, located in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and a retired Professor of Philosophy at Morgan State University in Baltimore. For 25 years he has been organizing and leading educational trips to Cuba.  For this work, in 1997 he was made Profesor Invitado by the University of Havana. (See here for information about an upcoming trip in June, 2016) He is editor/author of two books: Recreating Democracy in a Globalized State (2012) and Moving Beyond Capitalism (2016). He can be reached at global.justice.cliff@gmail.com