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Jim Tull teaches Philosophy, Community Service and Global Studies at the Community College of Rhode Island, Providence College and Rhode Island’s state prison. He is also the co-founder of Listening Tree Cooperative, a community-based permaculture homestead. For much of his work life, he served as the co-director of Amos House, a homeless shelter and soup kitchen on Providence’s south side, while organizing dozens of campaigns promoting peace and justice.

Kara Huntermoon is one of seven co-owners of Heart-Culture Farm Community, near Eugene, Oregon. She spends most of her time in unpaid labor in service of community: child-raising, garden-growing, and emotion/relationship management among the community residents. She also teaches Liberation Listening, a form of co-counseling that focuses on ending oppression.

Subin Varghese is the Community Renewable Energy Director at the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Contact Subin at subin@theselc.org.

Euclides Catá Guilarte, Doctor en Sociología
Profesor Titular, Departamento de Sociología,
Facultad de Filosofía e Historia, Universidad de la Habana.

Osnaide Izquierdo Quintana, Máster en Sociología
Profesor Auxiliar, Departamento de Sociología,
Facultad de Filosofía e Historia, Universidad de la Habana.

Euclides Catá Guilarte, Doctor en Sociología
Profesor Titular, Departamento de Sociología,
Facultad de Filosofía e Historia, Universidad de la Habana.

Osnaide Izquierdo Quintana, Máster en Sociología
Profesor Auxiliar, Departamento de Sociología,
Facultad de Filosofía e Historia, Universidad de la Habana.

Christina Clamp (“Chris”) is a professor of sociology and the director of the Center for Cooperatives and Community Economic Development at Southern New Hampshire University.  

Christina serves on the board of the Food Co-op Initiative, an organization dedicated to developing new food cooperatives in the USA; the board of the ICA Group, a developer and technical assistance provider to employee owned and worker co-operative businesses and LEAF, a community development finance institution which provides financing for housing and food consumer cooperatives and worker cooperative.

Christina earned her bachelor's degree from Friends World College where she first studied co-operatives in the American South, India and Central America.  She went on to complete her MA and Ph.D. in sociology at Boston College where she studied worker co-operatives and employee ownership including her research on the Mondragon Cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain.  That research entailed 50 interviews with managers and the founders of the cooperatives.  Follow up research was conducted with the same cohort of managers in 1998.  Case study research was conducted in 2003 about the retail cooperative, Eroski.  In addition she has led study tours to the cooperatives in 2002 and 2011.

Her recent research has focused on worker cooperative entrepreneurship and the development of an inventory of cooperative educators and co-op educational resources.  She has also been actively involved in promoting undergraduate community based research with community partners in NH. Her latest research is examining the use of shared services co-operatives in the USA.

About the author

I've been active for many years in nuclear issues, Central America solidarity, nonviolent direct action, peace, Left organizing, unions and labor, movement song, and some electoral politics.  I continue to be active in Sacramento groups with an international perspective:  SEIU, Sacramento Action for Latin America, and the local Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) branch, maintaining a WILPF presence in the state capital.   For over 20 years I've written and emailed out to "subscribers" a Ballot Guide the the California Propositions, analyzing the statewide ballot measures and recommending positions.

In 1995 my participation in the ambitious International WILPF project of the Peace Train from Helsinki to Beijing and the subsequent International UN Women’s Conference in China inspired and motivated me deeply.  On the train and at the Women's Conference I offered workshops and presentations on the “developing world”, the “debt crisis” of impoverished countires, the full moon, and nonviolent conflict resolution.

My paid work and political careers have continued separately over the last ten years.  My state job as an "analyst" gives me a background in substance use disorders and mental and other public health issues, including homelessness.  With the support and encouragement of others, I've served in various capacities with WILPF US.

In addition to politics,  I enjoy backpacking and camping with my husband, gardening and plants, literature, cultural diversity, speaking foreign languages and traveling, earth-based spirituality, bicycling, “folk” singing, good governance and process, critters (especially cats), being a union steward, and general wonderment at the natural world.  My husband, Louis, and I make wonderful dinners together.

Going to Cuba in 2016 to study co-operatives revived my interest in alternative economic structures, an area I hope to study more.  I seek to contribute to a world with social, economic, and political structures that support a more localized, sustainable, and relationship-based world of peace, justice, radical democracy, and excellent education.  Need I add environmental biodiversity?  I also advocate for joy and play -- and singing, lots of singing!

I can be reached at conjoin@macnexus.org

Ted has taught in the Sociocracy Leadership Training and several webinars. He is in leading positions in three different sociocratically run organizations. Also, He is the tech geek within SoFA.