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Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning—Paul is a senior project manager with Creative Commons. His project management skills were honed at Hughes Aircraft working on large scale, international air traffic control systems. Paul’s core expertise is in adult learning, educational technology, and open education. Prior to joining Creative Commons, Paul led Open Educational Resource (OER) and professional development initiatives across all the colleges and universities in British Columbia Canada. Paul’s firsthand experiences using Creative Commons’ licenses with faculty, institutions, and government inspired him to join Creative Commons. Paul is an avid outdoor and ping pong enthusiast.

Zoe Oja Tucker is originally from the East Coast. She learned about the functionality and joy of cooperation while living in the Dudley Co-op for three years as a Harvard College student. After graduating in 2013, she spent a year teaching, gardening, and cooking in schools with FoodCorps in Somers, Montana. She is now living in Oakland, California, where she has been working in freelance editing, writing, and SAT tutoring.

James is a worker owner in green worker cooperatives, a climate justice activist, and a union organizer.

Rebecca Torpie is the Marketing Director for the Weavers Way Co-op Association in Phildelphia, Pennslyvannia.

John Curl is author of For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements and Communalism in America. Oakland: PM Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-60486-072-6

Julia Ho is a solidarity economy organizer based in St. Louis with deep roots in Taiwan. She is the founder of Solidarity Economy St. Louis, co-founder of STL Mutual Aid, and board member for the New Economy Coalition.

Jo Bird is a cooperative business consultant and long-time pro-democracy activist and organizer.  Her full bio can be found here.

Noémi Giszpenc is the Secretary of the Data Commons Cooperative and a member of the operations team.  Noémi is also the executive director of the Cooperative Development Institute.