Author

Penn Loh wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas and practical actions. Penn is Lecturer and Director of Community Practice at Tufts Urban & Environmental Policy and Planning, where he coordinates the Practical Visionaries Workshop. This article is based in part on “The Emerging Just and Sustainable Food Economy in Boston” co-written by Glynn Lloyd.

John Restakis is the author of Humanizing the Economy – Co-operatives in the Age of Capital, and an expert in international co-operative economic development and political economy.

Lynn Pitman is an Outreach Specialist at the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives

John Lawrence is a professor of psychology at the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York. He is also a member of the Grassroots Economic Organizing collective.