Author

Michael Kenny has been an environmentalist and social justice activist since his youth, volunteering with numerous organizations. He is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Canadian-based grassroots environmental and social justice organization Regenesis http://www.theregenesisproject.com/. He was the New Democratic Party candidate for Don Valley West in the 2007 provincial election against future Premier Kathleen Wynne and PC leader John Tory.  He attends York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies in Toronto, where he is conducting research on autonomous spaces, activist centres and intentional communities.

Mira Luna is a long time social and environmental justice activist, community organizer and journalist, working to develop an alternative economy. She co-founded Bay Area Community Exchange, a regional open source timebank, the San Francisco Really Really Free Market and JASecon, and has served on the board of the San Francisco Community Land Trust and currently serves on the boards of the US Solidarity Economy Network and Data Commons Cooperative. She coordinated the Bay Area Participatory Budgeting Tour, the first Homestead Skillshare Festival in San Francisco, the Festival of Grassroots Economics in Oakland and two workshops for the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives.

JJ Noire is the producer of the 2-DVD workshop "This Way Out: A Guide To Starting A Worker Cooperative" (http://www.MightySmallFilms.com/This_Way_Out.html) She is a volunteer with NoBAWC and lives in a Limited Equity Housing Coop in Berkeley, CA.  For the past several years she has been videotaping conferences and presentations about worker and housing cooperatives and posting them online (http://www.YouTube.com/JJNoire)

Joss Winn is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Lincoln and a founding member of the Social Science Centre, Lincoln.

Elizabeth Barrette writes and edits nonfiction, fiction, and poetry in diverse fields including speculative fiction, alternative spirituality, and community. She ran the Pagan magazine PanGaia for 8 years and writes regularly for the Llewellyn annuals. Visit her blog The Wordsmith’s Forge and coven website Greenhaven: A Pagan Tradition.

Bonnie Shulman, now in her 60s, is an elder hippie who came of age in the 60s.  She is a recovering mathematics professor, recently retired from Bates College in Lewiston, ME, and looking forward to life in the slow lane.  Her friends and family are skeptical about her slowing down, and she grudgingly admits they may be right.  She is eager to return to her passions of poetry, gardening, and yoga.