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Brigit McCone is an Irish writer and lecturer who specializes in 19th century Russian and Ukrainian literature, with a dark past in event organizing, cabaret and stand-up.

Luke Wreford (Cambridge, UK) has worked in NGOs and grassroots projects on environmental issues, and is now an independent mindfulness trainer and researcher, and a co-organiser of the Mindfulness and Social Change Network (MSCN).

Paula Haddock (Oxford, UK) worked in international development for 10 years. She now divides her time between training at the Ulex Project, consulting for NGOs, teaching mindfulness and co-organising the Mindfulness for Social Change Network.

Luke Wreford (Cambridge, UK) has worked in NGOs and grassroots projects on environmental issues, and is now an independent mindfulness trainer and researcher, and a co-organiser of the Mindfulness and Social Change Network (MSCN).

Paula Haddock (Oxford, UK) worked in international development for 10 years. She now divides her time between training at the Ulex Project, consulting for NGOs, teaching mindfulness and co-organising the Mindfulness for Social Change Network.

WORT 89.9 FM is Listener-Sponsored, Volunteer Powered Community Radio broadcasting to South Central Wisconsin via our studios in Madison. Available worldwide through online streaming and archives. We provide an outlet for communication, education, free expression, entertainment, training and access for the purpose of sharing musical and cultural experiences.

Marc Maren graduated as a business major at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and completed his internship with VAWC as part of the Certificate for Co-operative Enterprise in 2019.

In 1987 Graham Ellis founded Bellyacres Artistic Ecovillage on a 10 acre jungle lot with a vision to experiment with sustainable community living practices. By 2007 Graham had raised $500,000 to build the Seaview Performance Arts Center for Education (S.P.A.C.E.), which in 2010 was described as “perhaps the most sustainable community center in the USA.” His article “My Struggle to Legalize Sustainable Living” appeared in Communities #168, Fall 2015, and he is currently writing a book, My Sustainable Community Experience: 27 Years Living with Jugglers in the Jungle. As we prepared this issue for press, we learned that Graham was deported from the US on July 19, 2017 for an expired visa under the stricter immigration enforcement protocols put in place by the Trump administration. He, his wife, and their five children had already been planning to relocate later this year to the UK, where he hopes to serve as a community consultant—but uncertainty remains about when or if the rest of his family will be granted the visas necessary to join him. See  www.civilbeat.org/2017/06/a-big-island-juggler-with-leukemia-faces-deportation. 

Lily Silver is disabled and primarily homebound with CFS/ME. Luckily, she lives in an informal community of like-minded, kind-hearted friends and familiars who brighten her days. Lily is assembling a free online guide to Disability, Medicaid, and Home Care. Come by and visit at howtogeton.wordpress.com.

Murphy Robinson is a wilderness guide, hunting instructor, and founder of Mountainsong Expeditions in Vermont. She lives in a Tiny House on a community organic farm in the mountains. You can contact her through her website, www.mountainsongexpeditions.com.

NYC Community Land Initiative is an alliance of social justice and affordable housing organizations and academics committed to winning housing for all New Yorkers. 

Our alliance — initiated by members of Picture the Homeless — includes grassroots, community- and faith-based, and city-wide organizations, and labor groups who see Community Land Trusts (CLTs) as a promising tool in the fight to address the root causes of homelessness and displacement. 

We are laying groundwork for CLTs and other non-speculative housing models that promote development of housing and neighborhoods for and with community members not served by the private market.