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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.

This paper was drafted by: Jennifer Atlee, Natalie Berland, Dale Bryan, Sarah Byrnes, Dan Jones, Orion Kriegman, and Conrad Willeman

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.

Alexander Kolokotronis is the Student Coordinator for the New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives; founder of Student Organization for Democratic Alternatives (SODA); and a Worker Cooperative Development Assistant with Make the Road New York.

Sustainable Economies Law Center cultivates a new legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment. We provide essential legal tools - education, research, advice, and advocacy - so communities everywhere can develop their own sustainable sources of food, housing, energy, jobs, and other vital aspects of a thriving community.

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.”

Dada Maheshvarananda is Director of the Prout Research Institute of Venezuela and author of After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action.

Devra Gartenstein founded Patty Pan Grill, a farmers' market concession, which became Patty Pan Cooperative in early 2013.

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.

Linda Hogan is a Social Architect working in the world community. Currently a worker owner of hOurworld cooperative, Linda has enjoyed life as a social service administrator, trainer and community organizer for which she has received numerous awards. She works for peace by sharing stories from our common heart….

Terry Daniels, Community Co-op Developer, combines entrepreneurial leadership skills practiced and honed as owner/operator of several businesses with particular interest and experience in community-based economics.  Terry is a worker-owner at hOurworld cooperative.

Juliet B. Schor is a professor of sociology at Boston College. Schor’s research focuses on the sharing economy, consumption, working hours and climate change.

Ruby Levine is the Marketing and Communications Contractor for P6. Based in Minneapolis, her vision for the future is grounded in economic community empowerment and anti-racism. Before coming to P6, she has worked with Grand Aspirations and CoFED.

Frank Cetera is President of the Cooperative Federal Credit Union.

Nic Wistreich has spent 15 years working in independent film and web design.  He has edited and co-authored several books on film financing and is the co-founder of the indie film website Netribution.  His full bio and CV is available on his website.