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David Morgan is a worker-owner at Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA).

Gloria Lowe is the founder and CEO of We Want Green, Too!, in Detroit, MI.

Innosanto Nagara is another coop geek who has been working in worker coops since 1995. He is one of the founding members of Design Action Collective in Oakland and before that, he was a worker-owner at Inkworks press for seven years. Both are flat-structured and union shops. At various times he has been active in the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives, was at the founding of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, and served on the board of the Western Worker Cooperative Conference. In his home life he lives in a cohousing community he built with five other families and he trains martial arts at Suigetsukan, a collectively-run dojo in Oakland. He is originally from Indonesia, is a graphic designer and activist with a degree in zoology. And he is the author of the children's books A is for Activist and Counting on Community, and an upcoming book and music CD set of Indonesian children's songs.  

Future Focus Media Co-op and Youth Training Institute is a collaboration that produces high quality video, photography and audio,while training youth in TV and film production. We build youth’s job skills and create powerful stories.

Sean Farmelo is a Network Co-ordinator for Students For Co-operation. As a student in Birmingham he helped to found the Green Bike Project and the Birmingham Student Housing Co-operative.  Sean is an editor of Slaney Street - a co-operative newspaper in Birmingham UK, and a member of Plan C. He campaigns on social issues and is a bicycle instructor.

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Chris Tittle co-leads SELC’s Housing, Commons Governance, and Money & Finance Programs, and coordinates SELC’s grant writing, grassroots fundraising, and internal governance. He is particularly focused on participatory and polycentric governance structures for more just and resilient economies. He practices Aikido and once traveled from Japan to West Africa by land and sea.

After completing my PhD in Rural Studies focusing on co-operatives as an alternative distribution system for local foods in 2015 I accepted the position as Business Chair of Co-operative Enterprises at the University of Winnipeg. As an Assistant Professor I hope to introduce students to new economic systems, including co-operatives, to better prepare them for the working world. I completed my PhD on a part-time basis while I worked at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs as a Research Analyst. I completed my Masters of Business Administration at McMaster University where I specialized in Finance, while working as the Senior Advisor for Major Projects within the Office of Research Services.

My work and educational background is eclectic with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Prince Edward Island in Biology as well as a Medical Laboratory Technology Diploma from Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario. This mixed background has served me well as I understand the need for different approaches when presented with various situations.