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CDF brings together the funds and partners to incubate and replicate innovative programs through new and existing cooperative enterprise.

Michael Howard teaches Philosophy at the University of Maine, and is the author of Self-Management and the Crisis of Socialism and the coordinator of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network.

Valeria Sosa Garnica is currently a junior at Williams College. She is a political science and American studies double major. She hopes to pursue a life of cooperative resistance, community organizing, and anti-capitalist joy.

Cadwell Turnbull is a graduate from the North Carolina State University’s Creative Writing MFA in Fiction and English MA in Linguistics. He is a writer of science fiction and fantasy with work appearing in Asimov's Science Fiction, Lightspeed and Nightmare.

Vernon Oakes is President of Oakes Management Inc. As President, he has renovated and managed his own properties, and those owned by other entities since 1985. Mr. Oakes is the immediate Past President of the National Association of Housing Cooperatives, and serves on several boards to advance the interests of cooperatives. He is also a former coordinator of the MBA program at Howard University, and an MBA graduate of Stanford University, who has used his business acumen to benefit the community by providing quality housing for all populations. Vernon is a consummate advocate for cooperatives.

Baba Asar Amen-Ra, is a long time community and labor activist engaged in the eternal fight for more just and equitable world.

Future Focus Media Cooperative produces high quality video and photography while training youth in television and film production with the goals of building youth's job skills.

Reed Ingalls is an intern at the Northwest Cooperative Development Center and a student at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where he studies Cooperative Business Development and Restoration Ecology. You can read more of his writing at outgrowingcapitalism.wordpress.com

Stephanie Van Hook wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Stephanie is the executive director of the Metta Center for Nonviolence, author of Gandhi Searches for Truth: A Practical Biography for Children, and host of Nonviolence Radio.  Find all this at www.mettacenter.org. 

NCBA CLUSA has been promoting, protecting and advancing the cooperative way of doing business in all areas of the economy since 1916. Our members include co-ops in food, farming, insurance, utilities, and service co-ops.

Miki Kashtan is an international teacher, creator of Convergent Facilitation, and author of three books, the latest being Reweaving Our Human Fabric: Working Together to Create a Nonviolent Future.

Michaela Fisher is a recent graduate of Wesleyan University and a 2017-2018 Thomas J. Watson Fellow studying worker cooperative and the greater solidarity econmy abroad.  Over the course of a year, she will travel to Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Nepal, and Canada to explore their cooperative economies.