Hilary Abell

Hilary Abell is co-founder of Project Equity, a new organization whose mission is to build scalable cooperative businesses and create local entrepreneurial ecosystems that increase worker ownership. Hilary led WAGES from 2003-2011 and was a worker-owner at Equal Exchange in the 1990s. As a consultant since 2011, she has worked with cooperatives including Opportunity Threads and the Evergreen Cooperatives. Her white paper Worker Cooperatives: Pathways to Scale was published by The Democracy Collaborative in June 2014.