Angel Adeyoha
The Icarus Project
I am a queer, trans, dis/abled activist of mixed-race origin. I am an advocate of self-determination, self-definition and community support. I love working with The Icarus Project in creating/changing language and perception around madness. I've trained in peer counseling, anti-oppression facilitation and have served on the speaker's bureau for CUAV (Community United Against Violence). I've also been active with Food not Bombs, Freedom Uprising, Pronoun Schmonoun and other great groups in the activist world. I'm motivated to help work towards a model of mental health care that is inclusive, accessible and person-driven vs. driven by profits or consumer models.
542. Radical Mental Health on Campus and in the Community through an Anti-Oppression Lens
Jack Ailey
Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform (PERRO)
451. Green Capitalism, Racism and Environmental Injustice
Layla Ananda
NASCO consultant, Arbor Small Business Solutions
Layla Ananda (formerly Sheila Ritter) has been around the co-op world since she helped start a student co-op in 1970. She is a consultant for NASCO. She has been on the board and/or staff or several co-ops, including ICC-Ann Arbor and NASCO Development Services. Layla teaches psychology at Washtenaw Community College.
222. Board Roles and Responsibilities
Jim Anderson
Ohio Employee Ownership Center
Jim joined the OEOC staff in 2007, and is responsible for the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry Project. Evergreen is a precedent-setting organization in which inner city low income people will be members of an employee-owned cooperative that provides commercial laundry services to large, anchor institutions in Cleveland, such as the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals as well as nearby nursing homes. Ideally the laundry will be the first of several such efforts. Previously, Jim was CEO of 100% ESOP-owned Republic Storage systems in Canton, Ohio.
253. Reclaiming the Commons Part I: Worker-Owned Cooperatives in a Post-Industrial City
Morgan Andrews
Life Center Association, Theatre of the Oppressed Philadelphia
Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews is an artist, author and actor in the Theater of the Oppressed (TO) and a co-opper from Philadelphia. He's trained with TO's late founder Augusto Boal, with Jana Sanskriti in India, and at NASCO's annual anti-oppression Action Camps. Morgan regularly tours a variety of fun, interactive workshops to co-ops, colleges and communities around North America. He also teaches yoga, natural vision therapy and vegan cuisine in Philly and abroad.
445. Theater of the Oppressed: Playing With Space-An Interactive Workshop
Ashley Asmus
ICC Austin
Ashley Asmus needs three things in life to be happy: sunshine, food and dance. Luckily, she found all three at her co-op house in Austin, and lots of it! She can't wait to share with you how to increase your food happy-points to their maximum level, so that you have more time and energy to dance. In the sunshine. Yes!
321. Common Feast: Nutritious Meals for Your House at $1.75
Chad Bailey
EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality
Chad Bailey has worked for the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality since 2000. Since then, his work has focused on the environmental health impacts of transportation-related air quality. He develops tools and analyses of human exposure to air pollution, with a particular emphasis on exposures and health impacts among populations near highways and other transportation infrastructure. He has worked on several national emission rulemakings, including the mobile source air toxics (MSAT) rule and locomotive and marine engine rule. He also publishes articles on air pollution exposures in scientific journals. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife, Michelle, and two year old daughter, Lina. Chad has an undergraduate degree in biophysics and a Master’s degree in environmental health sciences from the University of Michigan. At the moment, Chad's favorite book is Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay.
152. Addressing Health Impacts of Transportation and Air Quality: EPA, EJ, and You
Lauren Beitler
Qumbya Cooperative
Lauren Beitler is a middle-school math teacher in Chicago. She got her BA and her MAT from the University of Chicago. As the membership/social/education/outreach coordinator for Qumbya cooperative, she has been exploring ways to energize her co-op to make changes and improvements beyond crisis management. Personal and professional interests include education for social justice, math games, scavenger hunts, scrabble, queerness, and local history.
422. Internal Labor Systems of Housing Cooperatives
Brent Bellamy
Science '44 Cooperative
For the past ten years, Brent has been the General Manager of Science 44 Co-operative, a Student Housing Co-operative that was incorporated in 1941. Brent has a background in Finance and Administration and more importantly is an advocate for the environment. Over the past seven years, Science ‘44 Co-operative has performed physical changes and progressive improvements to the housing properties in order to reduce the energy consumption burden on the environment. These improvements were implemented while remaining fiscally responsible to the organization and at no additional cost to the members. These measures ranged from raising pigs to installing solar hot water systems. Science ‘44 Co-operative has made remarkable initiatives and set a strong example of what a student-housing co-operative can be doing to assist with sustaining our environment.
363. Resource Efficiency: Implementation and Member Buy-in for Large Co-op Systems
Alix Black
Berkeley Student Cooperative
Alix has been a member of the Berkeley Student Cooperative since Spring 2008. As the current Coordinator for Outreach, Diversity, and Anti-discrimination, she enjoys working to make her community safer, happier, and more diverse! Alix is an Anthropology major at UC Berkeley.
232. Tools for Engaging Your Members: Member Education and New Member Orientations
Camille Bishop
Berkeley Student Cooperative
My name is Camille Bishop, I've been living in the Berkeley Student Cooperative for two and a half years and have been involved with the Waste Reduction program for most of that time. In that time waste (or more correctly, the prevention of it) has integrated itself into my life in funny and unexpected ways that have made me frustrated with our disposable lifestyles, but more than that excited to work to creatively stop the production of waste and support reuse
261. Waste Reduction and Prevention for a More Sustainable Cooperative
Alix Black
Berkeley Student Cooperative
Alix has been a member of the Berkeley Student Cooperative since Spring 2008. As the current Coordinator for Outreach, Diversity, and Anti-discrimination, she enjoys working to make her community safer, happier, and more diverse! Alix is working on a degree in Anthropology at UC Berkeley.
232. Tools for Engaging Your Members: Member Education and New Member Orientations
Beth Blum
Philly Stands Up
243. Restorative Justice in our Communities: Working With Perpetrators of Sexual Assault
G. Paul Blundell
Acorn Community, The Federation of Egalitarian Communities
G. Paul Blundell is a member of Acorn Community, an egalitarian, income-sharing, consensus-run commune in central Virginia. He serves as Acorn's delegate in the Federation of Egalitarian Communities, co-manages their growing heirloom and organic seed business, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, fixes tractors, talks the talk and walks the walk.
462. Ecovillages: Sustainable Cooperation for Life
Tyrone Boucher
Resource Generation
Tyrone Boucher is the co-creator of Enough, a website about the personal politics of resisting capitalism. He spent two years on the organizing committee for Making Money Make Change, an annual gathering of young people with wealth to talk about leveraging privilege for social justice, and leads workshops on class privilege, anti-capitalism, and giving away money. He works on the grassroots fundraising team of the Catalyst Project and is a solidarity board member of POOR Magazine. Tyrone currently lives in Philadelphia and is a member of the staff collective at the Mariposa Co-op, where he helped found the Food Justice and Anti-Racism working group. He would like you to share your thoughts about class, money, and anti-capitalism by submitting comments and articles to: www.enoughenough.org.
444. Money and Relationships: A Workshop About Class Privilege
Rose M. Brewer
AfroEco Group
Rose M. Brewer is a scholar and activist. She is a professor of African American and African Studies focusing on social gender, race and class, social change and transformation. She is a member of AfroEco Group and is the co-Board chair of EJAM (Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota). Her most recent co-authored book, The Color of Wealth, received the 2006 Gustavus Meyer book award as one of the 10 best books on bigotry and intolerance in that year. In 2004 she received the Josie Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award, University of Minnesota
451. Green Capitalism, Racism and Environmental Injustice
Thomas Butler
College Houses, 21st Street Co-op
Thomas Butler fell in love with cooperation in high school when he accidentally started a food co-op in the guys' dorm of his state-funded boarding high school--think public school cafeteria food 3x/day. When he first toured The 21st Street Co-op in Austin, Texas and found out that co-operation happens on an industrial scale he had to move in. Since Fall 2006 he has been 21st Street Co-op Historian, Brewmeister, Board Representative, Labor Czar, and Maintenance Coordinator. At the corporate level he has been Chairman of the College Houses Board of Directors, Corporate Treasurer for CH, Super Co-op Hiring Committee Chair, and Management Committee Chair.
232. Tools for Engaging Your Members: Member Education and New Member Orientations
Susan Caya
ICC Ann Arbor
Susan Caya is currently the Director of Education for the ICC at U of M and has held this position since 1989. She has experience and training in the areas of sexual harassment, conflict resolution, board leadership and development, member/staff relations, co-op member education and workplace dynamics.
333. Introduction to Cooperative Personnel Management
Emily Cheney
Santa Barbara Student Housing Co-op, Bloomington Cooperative Living Alumna
Emily Lippold Cheney currently serves as the Executive Director for the Santa Barbara Student Housing Co-op. As SBSHC staff, she helps to maintain and operate four large properties while seeking expansion into a fifth. Her co-operative experience began in Indiana with the development of Bloomington Cooperative Living, Incorporated, a housing cooperative of twenty member-owners - just one facet of the amazing co-operative culture in Bloomington. Emily, a native of Iowa now living on the beach, is thrilled to be back at Institute for a third year because "[t]hrough the co-operative movement [s]he is made conscious of [her] worth and becomes aware of [her] responsibility for the good and welfare of the entire community." [Mohammad Hatta]
511. Developing New Cooperatives Part V: Putting it All Together: The Business Plan
Ed Code
Evergreen Cooperative Laundry
253. Reclaiming the Commons Part I: Worker-Owned Cooperatives in a Post-Industrial City
Cornucopia Institute
The Cornucopia Institute seeks economic justice for the family-scale farming community. Through research, advocacy, and economic development our goal is to empower farmers - partnered with consumers - in support of ecologically produced local, organic and authentic food.
Brian Donovan
ICC Austin
Brian was born in San Francisco, but mostly grew up in Texas. Brian has had a few careers since graduating with a master degree in Folklore and Myth. He has worked in politics in California and Texas, in sales and sales management for Apple, and has been working for ICC co-ops since September of 2005. In addition to his work at ICC, Brian is Vice President of the NASCO Development Services Board, and serves on the board of two Austin non-profits: Liveable City and Austin Carshare.
233. Finding Money for Housing in Your City
Steve Dubb
The Democracy Collaborative
Steve Dubb is an alumnus of the USCA in Berkeley and Groundwork Books in San Diego. Steve was Executive Director of NASCO form 2000 to 2003 and a NASCO board member from 2006 to 2008 and currently works at The Democracy Colloborative of the University of Maryland (http://www.community-wealth.org) where he does research on co-ops and other forms of community-based economic enterprise.
131. Co-ops, the Triple Bottom Line, and Domestic and International Development
253. Reclaiming the Commons Part I: Worker-Owned Cooperatives in a Post-Industrial City
334. Community Economic Development, Co-ops and Community-Based Careers
DWEJ
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ) is organized to empower individuals, communities, and community organizations in Southeast Michigan to educate, advocate and organize for cleaner, healthier communities and environments.
451. Green Capitalism, Racism and Environmental Injustice
Kevin Edberg
Cooperative Development Services
Kevin Edberg is the Executive Director of Cooperative Development Services (CDS), a non-profit organization working in the areas of sustainable/value-added agriculture, renewable energy, and community development, serving existing and start-up consumer and producer-owned co-ops primarily in MN, WI and IA. Prior to coming to CDS in October 2000, he spent 13 years with the Marketing Division of the MN Dept of Agriculture. Among his responsibilities there was the development of new programs supporting local foods and producer-owned business and cooperative development.
471. The Roles of Co-ops in Food Systems
512. Co-op as a Business Model
Jim Ellinger
Austin Airwaves, Inc.
Jim Ellinger is a long-time co-op and community media activist from "Austin not Texas." He lived at Whitehall Co-op for 7.5 years, served as Wheatsville Food Co-op's Membership & PR Director for 5 years, and has been a staffer at Co-op Camp Sierra for the past 7 years. He is Member #3 of the Black Star Co-op (the world's first beer co-op!). He currently serves on the Int'l BoD of the Canadian NGO AMARC, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters. He has traveled to more than 120 places outside North America since 9/11 on radio and co-op projects. This is Jim's 5th NASCO conference.
234. How to Promote Your Co-op for Cheap...or Even for Free!
Will Fantle
The Cornucopia Institute
Will Fantle is a founder and Codirector of The Cornucopia Institute, a farm policy group working on organic and sustainable agriculture and food issues. Cornucopia's mission is dedicated to the fight for economic justice for the family-scale farming community. The Wisconsin-based organization has developed a reputation as the nation's most aggressive organic corporate and governmental watchdog and defender of integrity in organics. Mr. Fantle directs the organization's research activities. He is a graduate, with honors, from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire with degrees in Economics and Political Science. He continues to reside in Eau Claire, WI.
171. Developing Local Economies Through Local Food
271. The Corporate Takeover of Organics
471. The Role of Co-ops in Food Systems
Anika Fassia
NASCO Education Board
My name is Anika Fassia and I'm a native Michigander. I currently live at Black Elk in Ann Arbor. I am a second year Graduate Student at the U-M School of Social Work. My aspirations are to increase social justice through improved social policies. I find the co-op movement to be the most ideal way to live out my values regarding increased social responsibility and low impact living and feel lucky to be able to spread awareness on the benefits of the co-op model.
141. Foundations of Non-Violent Communication
261. Waste Reduction and Prevention for a More Sustainable Cooperative
Mark Fick
Chicago Community Loan Fund
Mark Fick is a co-founder of the Stone Soup Cooperative in Chicago and the Senior Loan/Program Officer of the Chicago Community Loan Fund. Mark's work at CCLF is focused on lending to affordable housing, cooperatives and other community-based organizations. Mark also coordinates the CCLF technical assistance and training program to provide workshops, technical resources and referrals to community developers. He serves on the board of the Northside Community Federal Credit Union and the board of NASCO Development Services. Over the past 15 years Mark has worked with numerous cooperatives, collective enterprises and community organizing efforts to create humane, viable alternatives to the bloody capitalist mess in which we find ourselves.
111. Developing New Cooperatives Part I: Getting Organized
311. Developing New Cooperatives Part III: Finding the Right Building and Assessing Financial Feasibility
Rebecca Foon
Sustainability Solutions
Rebecca Foon is the director of Sustainability Solutions Group, an innovative Canadian worker co-operative that nurtures and embodies a holistic understanding of sustainability. Sustainability Solutions works with clients and collaborators to meaningfully integrate social, ecological and economic practices in their communities, organizations and work. Our projects benefit from our experience in public engagement and facilitation, integrated community sustainability planning knowledge, community economic development, climate change mitigation research, carbon neutrality and GHG assessments, community energy planning, sustainability assessments, sustainable purchasing, green building and LEED consulting, and development of sustainable food systems.
361. Co-ops as Agents of Change: Climate Change, Water Rights, and Environmental Justice
Pete Flynn
River City Housing Collective alum, Wild Rose Rebellion
Pete works on a couple farms, plants secret gardens, and walks the woods and wetlands of Eastern Iowa looking for things to eat.
371. Reframing Sustainability: Food Politics from an Anti-Oppression Perspective
Elis Franzen
River City Housing Collective alum, Wild Rose Rebellion
Elis loves to harvest wild yeasts for ferments and teach art.
371. Reframing Sustainability: Food Politics from an Anti-Oppression Perspective
Omar Freilla
Green Worker Cooperative
Raised in the South Bronx, where he continues to live, Omar Freilla is passionate about creating a green and democratic economy, one grounded in environmental justice. He is the founder and director of Green Worker Cooperatives, an organization dedicated to incubating green and worker-owned businesses in the South Bronx. Omar has many years of experience challenging environmental abuses in low-income communities of color in New York City having previously worked for both Sustainable South Bronx and the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance.
351. Green Worker Cooperative Business Incubator: A Case Study
Janet Frishberg
Berkeley Student Food Cooperative
Janet Frishberg will graduate from UC Berkeley in December '09 with a degree in Psychology and a minor in Conservation and Resource Studies. She was a leader in the anti-Panda Express campaign on Berkeley campus, which successfully prevented Panda Express from being the first branded fast-food chain on campus. Her passion, her dedication, and her ability to read through hundreds of pages of meeting minutes were all major factors in that victory.
172. Movement Building on College Campuses
Michael Gregor
Kalamazoo Collective Housing, Fair Food Matters
Michael Gregor founded Kalamazoo Collective Housing in 2005. He coordinates the Can-Do Kitchen project in Kalamazoo, which is a food business incubator. He sits on the NASCO Board of Directors. Michael has been active in student organizing, transportation activism, clean energy campaigns, social justice coalition building, peace education, journalism, minimum wage campaigns, and anti-oppression education. He had an academic background in Public Policy, Nonprofit Leadership, and Environmental Studies. He continues to focus on creating more sustainable and just urban environments. On the side, Michael enjoys cooking, dancing, yoga, laughing, cycling, and thinking up alternatives to white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
171. Developing Local Economies through Local Food
Andrew Haydon
The Grand House Student Cooperative
Andrew Haydon is a graduate student in the architecture department at the University of Waterloo, Since 2005, he has worked on the design, construction and development of The Grand House Student Co-op, which has a mandate both to provide ecologically-sustainable housing, and to facilitate the engagement of the local community around issues of environmental awareness and action.
161. Green Building is a Collaborative Process
The Highlander Center
The Highlander Center is a residential popular education and research organization based on a 106-acre farm in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, twenty-five miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Since 1932, Highlander has gathered workers, grassroots leaders, community organizers, educators, and researchers to address the most pressing social, environmental and economic problems facing the people of the South. Highlander sponsors educational programs and research into community problems, as well as a residential Workshop Center for social change organizations and workers active in the South and internationally. Generations of activists have come to Highlander to learn, teach, and prepare to participate in struggles for justice.
122. Popular Education
452. Rural Organizing
Cooperative Leadership Track: Anti-Oppression Training
Jonathan Irwin
PCH, Rosehip Medics Collective, Rising Tide North America
Jonathan is a native of Cascadia, who came into adulthood through the complex influences of cooperative living in Eugene, Portland, & various parts of Andalucía (Spain). Resident of Portland, OR he loves his medic, climate justice, & community-building projects there--and discourages more people from moving there, unless they're really awesome. When not being a home-body, scraping a living, attending meetings, or plotting alternatives to industrial civilization, Jonathan likes to camp out in the woods, read, fancifully imagine the zombie apocalypse, make & drink home brew, & take long walks--not too particular about where (though beaches are nice).
Home Remedies for Common Maladies Skillshare
Jim Jones
NASCO
Jim Jones has been involved with group equity housing co-ops since 1962 and worked for the co-ops in East Lansing, Austin and Ann Arbor. Jim has been involved with NASCO since he was a member of the first board of directors in 1971. He is fascinated by coop history and is currently writing a book on group equity housing titled Hasten Slowly and You Shall Soon Arrive. As NASCO's Senior Director of Development and Property Services, Jim works with all aspects of education, management and development of group equity housing cooperatives.
421. Our Collective History: Student Housing Co-ops in North America
Stefanie Jones
Madison Community Cooperative, Madison Cooperative Network, Social Justice Center, NASCO Education Board
Stefanie is a former resident of Madison, Wisconsin, a former member of Madison Community Cooperative, and a some-time director of the NASCO Board. She received her Bachelor's of Science in May of 2009 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. By the time you read this, SAJ will be residing in New York City and working on her PhD.
333. Introduction to Cooperative Personnel Management
kane
Philly Stands Up
443. Restorative Justice in our Communities: Working With Perpetrators of Sexual Assault
Esteban Kelly
NASCO Education Board, CUNY Graduate Center
As a staff member at Mariposa Food Co-op, Esteban (aka "Stevie") was instrumental in forming the Food Justice and Anti-Racism Working Group which aims to increase food access while confronting institutionalized oppressions. Homeboy is a new board member to the US Federation of Worker Co-ops, and has been devoted to the North American cooperative movement since 1999 throughout the NASCO-verse. In addition to co-op organizing, Esteban is pursuing a doctorate degree in Cultural Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, where he is studying how urbanization in Brazil mobilizes land, housing, and social movements over conflicting ideologies of space (which tend to displace the poor). As an active community organizer in West Philadelphia, homeboy works with Philly Stands Up on sexual assault issues, the Philly Dudes Collective on gender analysis and male accountability, and the LCA land trust where he lives with his partner and friends. Esteban enjoys Battlestar Galactica, riding bikes, reading comics, and speaking Portuguese with friends. He is obsessed with maps, avocados, and the continent of Antarctica, and abuses British colloquialisms. Finally, Esteban administers Black Maps, a blog reflecting on pretty much all of the issues and hobbies stated above and jazzed up by a healthy dose of pop culture gossip and erudite musings on Blackness: www.blackmaps.wordpress.com
243. Restorative Justice in our Communities: Working With Perpetrators of Sexual Assault
353. Reclaiming the Commons Part II: A Do-It-Yourself Perspective from West Philly and Detroit
551. Conference Conclusions: A Plenary on Environmental Justice
Kirsten Kelly
Spargel Productions
Kirsten Kelly is an award-winning film and theatre director from New York. She is a graduate of the Master's Directing program at Juilliard. She and her film partner, Anne de Mare received several Best of Fest awards for Asparagus! and are currently working on several short documentaries about young virtuoso musicians and a new education series about nutrition and food. Kirsten's directing has been heralded by the press as ‘endlessly imaginative' and ‘enticingly cinematic.' She returns home to Oceana County each summer where she does a Shakespeare project with students from her home town.
372. Meet the Filmmaker: Screening of Asparagus! Stalking the American Life and Dialogue
Corinna Kimball-Brown
Portland Collective Housing
Corinna Kimball-Brown resides in Portland, Oregon, in a magenta colored six bedroom house, one of two owned by Portland Collective Housing. She served on the PCH Board for two years as Treasurer, and saw the co-op through a major re-finance. She currently works with the PCH Development team and hopes to see PCH expand to include at least one more house within the next year.
221. Basic Elements of Housing Coop Finances
Tom Klein Beernink
Guelph Campus Co-op
Tom Klein Beernink is Manager of Housing and Member Relations for the Guelph Campus Co-operative. Formerly Executive Director of the Ontario Environment Network and co-ordinator of OPIRG-Guelph, Tom has extensive experience in a variety of community-based organizations and co-operatives, including several multi-stakeholder groups such as the Ontario Roundtable on the Environment and Economy and the Ontario Waste Reduction Advisory Committee. He was chair of the developing Board of Silverwood Housing Co-operative and sat for many years on the Board of the Guelph Food Co-op. Tom is a recipient of the commemorative medal for the 125th anniversary of confederation for significant contribution to community.
441. A Climate for Accessibility: Redesigning Space to Create Physically Accessible Housing
Fuzzy/Adam Konner
ICC Ann Arbor, United Students for Fair Trade
Fuzzy is a member and part time staff member of the Inter-Cooperative Council in Ann Arbor and has held many leadership positions in the organization. He is also on the Coordinating Committee of United Students for Fair Trade, a national student organization. He is passionate about worker co-ops and the Fair Trade movement, studies economics, and intends to work in international development through worker co-ops and Fair Trade. He is also a web developer, and he likes hugs.
453. Fair Trade and the Co-op Movement
Sarah Konner
ICC Ann Arbor
Sarah is a senior at the University of Michigan studying dance and environmental science with a focus on sustainable third world development. She lives in Black Elk, an Ann Arbor co-op house and serves on the board of the Inter-Cooperative Council (ICC). This year, she and her brother are launching a new team in the ICC focused on taking action to promote both the local and worldwide co-op movement. Sarah is interested in environmentally and socially sustainable plans for global development and also interested in how the arts can interact with those projects. Sarah loves collaboration in the arts and thinks that everything is improvisation.
453. Fair Trade and the Co-op Movement
Laura Knap
The Grand House Student Co-operative
Laura Knap is a founding member of the Grand House Student Co-op, a designer, construction worker, and masters student in architecture.
461. Clay Finishes: A Hands-On Workshop
Eric Lipson
ICC Ann Arbor
Eric Lipson has been a practicing attorney since 1978. His first law job was as an attorney and, later, Director of University of Michigan Student Legal Services, representing students in civil and criminal cases. Since then he has worked in landlord-tenant, personal injury, and criminal defense. Eric also has great deal of experience managing group housing situations such as camps, outdoor education programs and university dorms. Currently he is the General Manager of ICC Ann Arbor, dealing with the legal aftermath of fires, floods, alcohol issues, mental health problems, assaults, and the range of legal issues affecting coops.
431. First Do No Harm: Reducing Legal Liability of Co-op Board Members and Officers
Jesse Livingston
ICC Ann Arbor
Jesse Livingston is the former Director of Member Services for NASCO, and the former Vice President of Maintenance for the Inter-Cooperative Council in Ann Arbor, MI. During his term, he helped keep 19 co-op houses in shape. He now fronts the soon-to-be-world-famous band Take.
123. Taking Care of the Place: Preventative Maintenance and Stewardship
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO)
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO,) also known as La Organización de Justicia Ambiental de La Villita, is a collective of community members based in Little Village, Chicago striving for a clean and just environment. We seek to empower our local and global communities through environmental organizing and youth programming for cleaner air, open space, and a sustainable future.
171. Developing Local Economies through Local Food
451. Green Capitalism, Racism, and Environmental Injustice
Gay MacGregor
EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality
Gay MacGregor has been with the United States Environmental Protection Agency since 1983. She currently serves as senior policy advisor in EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality in Ann Arbor, MI. She works with EPA's voluntary transportation programs including the SmartWay Transport Partnership, Clean School Bus USA and the National Clean Diesel Campaign. She currently co-chairs the Agency's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee's Working Group on Clean Diesel as well as EPA's Agency-wide Ports Team, which focuses on reducing the environmental impacts of goods movement. Previously, she has co-chaired EPA's Sub-committee; Linking Land-use, Transportation and Air Quality as well as directed EPA's Transportation Conformity Program and I/M programs and EPA's Tier 1 nonroad regulations. During her tenure at EPA she has also served in EPA's Office of Administration in Washington DC, and Region 9 in San Francisco. Prior to coming to EPA, she worked for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the State of New Mexico. She has a graduate degree in public affairs from North Carolina State and has also done graduate work in urban planning at University of Michigan.
152. Addressing Health Impacts of Transportation and Air Quality: EPA, EJ, and You
Geoff Mayers
ICC Ann Arbor
As a student at the University of Michigan, Geoff lived in Minnie's Co-op for four years, serving as maintenance manager, board rep, & in-house president during his time there. Now the Maintenance Coordinator for the ICC, Geoff trains and assists houses in maintaining and improving their homes and regularly conducts skill training sessions for house maintenance managers and interested members. Geoff has a BS in Environmental Science.
123. Taking Care of the Place: Preventative Maintenance and Stewardship
Ted Meinhover
National Cooperative Business Association
Ted Meinhover is a Project Manager with NCBA's CLUSA International Program, working with cooperators in countries such as Mozambique, Indonesia, Nicaragua, and others. A 2006 graduate of the University of Minnesota's Journalism and Global Studies departments, he studied and traveled in South East Asia before returning to work as a journalist in the Twin Cities. Ted has worked with NCBA in Washington, DC since June 2008.
131. Co-ops, the Triple Bottom Line, and Domestic and International Development
Andrew McLeod
Author and Co-op Development Specialist
Andrew McLeod has been an organizer in the cooperative movement since 1994, with experience in worker and consumer cooperatives. His studies of religious teachings about cooperative economics, are the subject of his recent book, "Holy Cooperation!: Building Graceful Economies" (Wipf and Stock, 2009), as well as a paper presented to the International Cooperative Alliance Research Conference in 2008. He is a candidate for the Master in Management -Cooperatives and Credit Unions at St. Mary's University. He lives in Sacramento and works with the California Center for Cooperative Development.
142. Holy Cooperation! Connecting with Faith Communities
Daniel Miller
NASCO Properties, Sasona Coop, Pacifico Coop
Daniel Miller has lived in and worked with student, community, and food coops since 1998. A self described geek and political junkie, Daniel currently works for NASCO doing cooperative development work and assisting NASCO Properties coops. He also cares deeply about creating more inclusive communities and about encouraging coop members to engage with their communities and municipalities.
332. Fair Housing and Open Membership: Could Your Membership Policies Get You in Legal Trouble?
532. Problem Members
Dan Millis
Sierra Club Borderlands Campaign
Born and raised in Arizona, Dan Millis has worked on border issues there since 2005. He is the Borderlands Campaign Organizer for Arizona's Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club. Dan is also a volunteer with the border humanitarian aid group No More Deaths.
151. Wild Versus Wall
Native Movement: Urban Lifeways Project
The Urban Lifeways Project of Native Movement works with youth in Flagstaff, Arizona to maintain a connection to culture and the environment while living in an urban setting. We do this through programs in urban agriculture, public art, community composting, and youth leadership development that incorporate traditional teachings from our communities into a contemporary urban environment.
352. Indigenous Peoples Protecting and Restoring the Environmental Commons
William Nelson
CHS Foundation
William Nelson is president of the CHS Foundation www.chsfoundation.org He serves on the NCBA Board of Directors, NCFC Education Committee and Foundation, Chair's the President's Council of the National Young Farmer's Education Association, and the Board of the Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America. He serves on the Board of the Ralph K. Morris Foundation, the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives Advisory Council, and the Cooperative Research Council. He is a past president of The Cooperative Foundation and the Association of Cooperative Educator. He has graduate degrees in Community Education and Studies of the Future.
471. The Roles of Co-ops in Food Systems
Elliot Newman
Santa Cruz Student Housing Cooperative
143. Working Toward Healing Community Trauma
Emily Ng
UHAB | Urban Homesteading Assistance Board
Emily Ng is Director of Member Services with the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) and a native New Yorker. UHAB has a rich history in affordable housing and community renewal since 1973 by organizing, developing, preserving, and supporting low-income, resident-controlled housing cooperatives. Prior to joining UHAB, Emily was one of twelve founders of the Nickel City Housing Co-op in Buffalo, NY and was among the first group to inhabit 208 North Street (also known as Ol' Wondermoth).
331. By the Numbers: Connected Books
kiran nigam
US Solidarity Economy Network, US Social Forum
kiran is an educator for social justice. She is a former NASCO Staff and Board member and continues to facilitate NASCO's Action Camp each year in August. She is currently self-employed, doing workshops, trainings and consulting for collectively run communities on topics addressing social justice, communication, community support and collective functioning. Her interests include: democratic and popular education, art, neurology, radical mental health, riding bikes, cooking (and eating) food, palindromes, puns, gardening, reading, traveling, herbalism, and spending time with her cat Mayhem.
241. Anti-Racist Organizing Part 1: People of Color Transcending White Supremacy
343. Anti-Racist Organizing Part 2: Dialogue
522. Don't Forget the Fun: Using Games to Train, Meet, and Build Community
Rebecca Nole
NASCO Education Board, Riverwest Food Co-op, ICC Ann Arbor Alum
With housing coop experience ranging from President, to Education, Finance, and Membership, Rebecca Nole has spent the past ten years living and working cooperatively. In those capacities, and since, she has learned techniques for organizing and orchestrating trainings of different scales and catered to different groups ranging from house officers to new Board of Directors. Her most favorite time of year is NASCO Institute when coopers from all over the globe descend on Ann Arbor to meet, greet and share. With strong backgrounds in Board relations, Officer trainings, Education, reporting and problem solving she is looking forward to another Institute.
171. Developing Local Economies Through Local Food
231. Community Asset Mapping
333. Introduction to Cooperative Personnel Management
Darryl Nunn, Grand House Cooperative
Darryl Nunn has degrees in Editorial Illustration from Sheridan College in Oakville, ON and Painting & Drawing from Concordia University in Montreal, QC. Darryl has worked with the Peoples Potato Food Collective at Concordia University. Current artistic focus includes researching and developing natural alternatives to conventional art materials and methods.
Natural T-Shirt Screenprinting Skillshare
Kas Ocasio-Pare
Santa Cruz Student Housing Cooperative
143. Working Toward Healing Community Trauma
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
New Orleans Anti-Racism Group, NASCO Education Board
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs has been involved in the cooperative movement for the last seven years formerly as a member of the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association and currently serving on the NASCO Board. She lives in New Orleans where she in a member of the Anti-Racism Working Group working to support the Just Reconstruction of New Orleans. Lydia is also a prison abolitionist who dreams of a world of mutual aid and responsibility and has recently started a Masters in Urban Studies and is excited about the future of scholarly activism. In her spare time, she enjoys wearing parading in glitter, drinking iced coffee, and living in a subtropical climate.
144. Trans Allyship: Eradicating Transphobia in Our Communities
242. Anti-Racist Organizing Part 1: White Anti-Racist Praxis
343. Anti-Racist Organizing Part 2: Dialogue
551. Conference Conclusions: A Plenary on Environmental Justice
Jordan Pelot-Whitcomb
Berkeley Student Cooperative
Jordan has been active with the Berkeley Student Cooperative for the past six years. During his four years as a co-op member, Jordan has served as House Manager, Social Manager, Recruitment Coordinator, and Social Collective Chair. When he was finally given the boot after graduating, he returned to work full time for the BSC as Alumni Coordinator, and currently serves on the Co-op Alumni Association's Board of Directors.
132. How to Start Your Own Alumni Giving Program
Kim Penna
College Houses, NASCO Education Board
Kim Penna has been a co-oper for 8 years. First as a member of 21st St. Cooperative in Austin, Tx, and now as a staff member at College Houses. She recently began her 3 year term on the NASCO board, where she was elected Development Officer. Kim would like to positivly contribute to the student housing cooperative movement through creative fundraising and sheer enthusiasm.
232. Tools for Engaging Your Members: Member Education and New Member Orientations
PERRO
P.E.R.R.O. is a group of Pilsen residents that formed in 2004 to fight the disproportionate amount of pollution in the Pilsen neighborhood. Its mission is to increase awareness about environmental justice and the effects of pollution and forge a dialogue among residents, businesses, industry and social and religious organizations in order to create a healthier community and living environment for all.
451. Green Capitalism, Racism and Environmental Injustice
Jenna Peters-Golden
Philly Stands Up
243. Restorative Justice in our Communities: Working With Perpetrators of Sexual Assault
Philly Stands Up
Philly Stands Up is a group working in Philadelphia to confront sexual assault in our radical communities. Philly Stands Up works with perpetrators to hold them accountable to the survivor(s) and restore their relationships within their communities. We support their healing process, and challenge them on their behavior in order to prevent future assaults. As a collective we work hard to educate and get our communities talking; varried workshops are a key way that we share our ideas and experience while advocating for restorative justice centered work around sexual assault. Designing workshops and writing articles, zines, chapbooks, and blogs are all ways we continually educate and challenge ouselves in an effort to always grow and evolve as activists and members of a group committed to ending sexual assault in radical ways.
243. Restorative Justice in our Communities: Working With Perpetrators of Sexual Assault
Anthony Poore
School of Community Economic Development, Southern New Hampshire University
Anthony Poore is Assistant Dean for the School of Community Economic Development at Southern New Hampshire University. Mr. Poore holds a Masters Degrees in Community Economic Development and an MBA both from Southern New Hampshire University. He completed his undergraduate studies in Social Work at Wright State University in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio.
Mr. Poore has over sixteen years experience as a community economic development practitioner focusing on developing relationship and resources through participatory and capacity building strategies. His activities have included community organizing and new business development in Dayton, Ohio, community mobilization among refugee communities & affordable housing development in Manchester, New Hampshire and organizational development activities, human/civil rights advocacy and activism in both locales.
334. Community Economic Development, Co-ops and Community-Based Careers
Margaret Prest
Santa Barbara Student Housing Co-op
Margaret Prest has lived in and worked with student housing co-ops for the past eight years. As member of the Inter-Cooperative Council in Ann Arbor, she served as various house officers and as Board president. For the past three years, she has lived in Isla Vista, California and worked for the Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative. Living on the beach was great fun, but she was ready for a change and so recently moved to Washington DC to start a dual masters program in Urban Planning and Historic Preservation at the University of Maryland.
133. Major Renovations-Where to Begin?
L. Amelia Raley
ICC Austin
L. Amelia Raley has lived in co-ops in Oregon and Texas since 2005. Serving as kitchen manager and chef, she has provided fun, nutritious meals for her roommates and friends. Professionally, she is a vegan ice cream maker and teacher of the gifted in Austin, Texas.
321. Common Feast: Nutritous Meals for Your House at $1.75
Brett Ramey
Urban Lifeways Project/Native Movement
Brett's family is from the Missouri River region of Kansas (US) where both sides of his family farmed for several generations. He is the first generation in his family to grow up away from his mother's reservation (Ioway) and the first to grow up in a city. For the past decade he has been working with other young people around the world to reconnect to land-based knowledge and skills while living in urban areas.
He is currently the director of the Flagstaff, AZ-based Urban Lifeways Project within Native Movement, an organization that supports indigenous leadership development and sustainability programs in Northern Arizona and Alaska. Some of their work includes building native food and medicine gardens at schools and in vacant lots, operating a bicycle-powered restaurant compost program, and facilitating community mural and garden trainings for other community organizations.
352. Indigenous Peoples Protecting and Restoring the Environmental Commons
Maria Ramos
The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala
352. Indigenous Peoples Protecting and Restoring the Environmental Commons
Alli Reed
Berkeley Student Food Cooperative, Real Food Challenge
Alli Reed has been involved in various food movements for over four years. She works with the Real Food Challenge, United Students for Fair Trade, and the Berkeley Student Food Cooperative. Within the BSFC, she has generally been involved in every aspect of opening a student-run food co-op, including earning over $100,000 in grants. She is currently a senior music major at UC Berkeley.
172. Movement Building on College Campuses
Gabriel Rivin
National Cooperative Business Association
Gabe Rivin is the Communications Specialist at NCBA. He is the assistant editor of the Cooperative Business Journal, for which he regularly writes stories and conducts interviews. He graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a B.A. in English literature.
131. Co-ops, the Triple Bottom Line, and Domestic and International Development
Connie Ruth
EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality
Connie Ruth is currently overseeing Environmental Justice, Green Building and the Construction sector for National Clean Diesel Campaign at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Before moving to diesel work, Ms. Ruth headed up EPA's Environmental Commute Options Program, managed several areas for the Best Workplaces for Commuters Program and participated in Environmental Education projects promoting reduction of vehicles miles traveled. Ms. Ruth has a B.S. and an M.S from the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment and worked there for 5 years prior to joining EPA in 1990.
152. Addressing Health Impacts of Transportation and Air Quality: EPA, EJ, and You
Alan Robinson
College Houses
Alan graduated from TCU May 1981 with a BBA in Accounting. He worked at various private companies for 10 years before joining the not-for-profit world. He served as CFO for College Houses Cooperatives May 1991 - April 1999 and returned as General Administrator in March 2002. In between Alan worked as Controller for Goodwill Industries of Central Texas. Alan also serves on the Board of Directors of NASCO Development Services (NDS). NDS helps develop campus cooperatives in the U.S. and Canada. He also serves as Chairman of the Kagawa Fund, which provides loans to new and existing housing cooperatives in the U.S. and Canada.
531. Journey Through the Maze of Financial Ratios
Annie Robinson
The Icarus Project
The Icarus Project entered my life two years ago when I began leading the Campus Icarus chapter at Gallatin/NYU, expanding my previous student organizing around mental health. My studies at NYU interwove gender studies, post-psychiatry, mad pride history, medical anthropology, arts and activism, and narrative theory. Upon graduating, I joined TIP's organizing collective as Education Outreach coordinator. (paragraph break) My personal experience with extreme psychic and emotional experiences also accounts for my participation with TIP. From both traumatic and triumphant encounters with mainstream medical mental health services, I have found a balance of modalities for wellbeing, including psychotherapy, peer support, and yoga.
542. Radical Mental Health on Campus and in the Community through an Anti-Oppression Lens
Devin O. Saurus
Philly Stands Up
243. Restorative Justice in our Communities: Working With Perpetrators of Sexual Assault
Laird Schaub
Fellowship for Intentional Community
Laird Schaub has lived 35 years at Sandhill Farm, an income-sharing rural community in Missouri that he helped found. Laird is also the main administrator of the FIC, a network organization he helped create in 1986 that serves as a clearinghouse of information about North American communities. He's also a meeting junkie and parlayed his passion for good process into a consulting business on group dynamics. His specialty is conducting up-tempo meetings that engage the full range of human input, teaching groups to work creatively with conflict, and being ruthless about capturing as much product as possible.
121. Stump the Chumps
442. Conflict: Fight, Flight, or Opportunity?
521. Consensus Headaches: Rx for Meeting Moments That Are a Pain for Everyone
Ma'ikwe Schaub Ludwig
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage and Fellowship for Intentional Community
121. Stump the Chumps
462. Ecovillages: Sustainable Cooperation for Life
Rowan Shafer
The Anti-Racism Working Group of New Orleans
Hi co-opers! My name is Rowan Shafer. I live in New Orleans and am part of the anti-racism working group. We are a collective that works to be part of building an anti-racist, multiracial movement to support a Just Reconstruction of the Gulf Coast, and to dismantle the interlocking systems of oppression that made Katrina possible. We do this through anti-racist, intersectional organizing and political education, in order to build an anti-racist base who will organize to support local racial justice work, organizations and campaigns, as well as through networking and building relationships with anti-racist organizations nationally. I also work at a public New Orleans Montessori school, and will be in a 4-5 class this year. I am currently working on my certification for middle school science. Before getting into teaching, I was an intern at an environmental justice law firm in New Orleans that advocated for everyone's human right to a healthy environment. I'm very excited that NASCO's topic this year in environmental justice. I went to Oberlin College and was part of the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association my whole time there in various leadership positions, so I'm psyched to be back at NASCO Institute.
242. Anti-Racist Organizing Part 1: White Anti-Racist Praxis
343. Anti-Racist Organizing Part 2: Dialogue
Mandy Shapiro
ICC Ann Arbor
Mandy Shapiro first discovered co-ops in 2002 when she moved in Casa Zimbabwe in Berkeley, CA. She currently works in the finance office at the Intercooperative Council (ICC) in Ann Arbor, MI.
221. Basic Elements of Housing Coop Finances
Andi Shively
Third Coast Workers for Cooperation
Andi Shively is pursuing a MS in Community Economic Development at Southern New Hampshire University, specializing in cooperatives and credit unions, and is a member of the USFWC Union-Coops Committee. Currently working with colleagues in Austin, TX to establish a community-based worker cooperative development center, she expects to permanently return to Austin in the summer of 2010. At the moment, she lives in State College, PA, where she consults with the Keystone Development Center, delights in cooking delicious local food, and dances to live music as often as possible.
251. "Green" Worker Owned: Why We Organize for the Planet and the People
David Rosebud Sparer
Herrick & Kasdorf, LLP
David Sparer (aka Rosebud) has been an attorney in Madison Wisconsin since 1979 and lived in a housing coop for 17 years. During the nearly 30 years he has been an attorney, he focused on representing and assisting cooperatives and non-profits. Sparer's work includes assisting housing coops, grocery coops, farmer coops, and worker coops with everything from initial organizing, negotiating leases, litigation, contract negotiations, to purchasing or selling real estate. During this time David has also represented non-profit organizations in obtaining non-profit status.
211. Developing New Cooperatives Part II: Obtaining Tax Exempt Status for Your Co-op
411. Developing New Cooperatives Part IV: Purchase or Lease a House for a Housing Co-op
Holly Jo Sparks, UNC-Chapel Hill, former NASCO staff
Holly Jo Sparks is an Ph.D. Candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She recently received her Master in City Planning from MIT, with an emphasis in housing, community and economic development. Her research interests include neighborhood stabilization and alternatives to homeownership, particularly cooperatives, community land trusts, and shared-equity housing. Prior to graduate school, Holly Jo spent 10 years working in various positions in cooperative housing development and community service. She served as NASCO's Executive Director and as a board member for NCBA. During this time, she lived and worked primarily on the West Coast, based out of Santa Barbara, CA. Holly Jo was born in Traverse City, MI and received her BA in History of Art from the University of Michigan Residential College in 1997.
211. Developing New Cooperatives Part II: Obtaining Tax Exempt Status for Your Co-op
411. Developing New Cooperatives Part IV: Purchase or Lease a House for a Housing Co-op
Ruth Sullivan
Sasona Cooperative, NASCO Education Board
Ruth Sullivan is your Active Member Representative for 2009, and a member of Sasona Housing Co-op in Austin, TX. She works as an electrician and has a strong interest in PV. Ruth likes making and fixing things as well as looking at plants. Her latest endeavors include the Sasona Coloring and Activity Book and fixing a decoder ring. She can be reached at vitusrotundifoli@aol.com
362. Creating and Maintaining Energy Efficient Co-ops: Small-Scale Initiatives
Deborah Torraine
Twin Cities LISC, AfroEco
Deborah A. Torraine is a Board Officer for AfroEco, a collaborative of African American artists, scholars, professionals and advocates working on the issues of Climate Justice, food and land access for African Americans and other marginalized peoples. She currently is a "Green" consultant for Twin Cities LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation), a non profit organization committed to building sustainable communities. Most recently, she partnered with EJAM (Environmental Justice Advocates of MN) as a Wellstone Fellow and Education Coordinator to bring civic engagement programming into an inner-city middle school. Deborah is an accomplished Program Facilitator, Workshop Programmer, Coordinator, Director, Educator and most recently - Urban Farmer growing cultural specific foods. She is an award-winning short story author and has written five locally commissioned children's plays. Her latest short story is included in the 2010 St. Paul Almanac. Ms. Torraine has trained and managed college interns, graduates and employees.
Deborah received her Liberal Arts Degree from the University of California Santa Cruz. In 2006 she helped develop and facilitated Pest Management workshops for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and helped produce a cross-cultural DVD. Ms. Torraine is very invested in bringing "Environmental Literacy" to her community and using the coop model as a pathway out of poverty.
334. Community Economic Development, Co-ops and Community-Based Careers
US Solidarity Economy Network
The Solidarity Economy is an alternative development framework that is grounded in practice and the in the principles of: solidarity, mutualism, and cooperation; equity in all dimensions (race/ethnicity/ nationality, class, gender, LGBTQ); social well-being over profit and the unfettered rule of the market; sustainability; social and economic democracy; and pluralism, allowing for different forms in different contexts, open to continual change and driven from the bottom-up.
The mission of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network is to connect a diverse array of individuals, organizations, businesses and projects in the shared work of building and strengthening regional, national and international movements for a solidarity economy.
Adrien Vlach
MSU Student Housing Cooperative
Adrien Vlach is the Executive Director of the MSU Student Housing Cooperative in East Lansing, Michigan. He has also worked for NASCO, the University of Kansas Student Housing Cooperative, and lots of less interesting places. Adrien claims to have sat through more boring training sessions than anyone on the planet, but this cannot be confirmed, because he can't remember any of them all that well.
232. Tools for Engaging Your Members: Member Education and New Member Orientations
Rachel Wallis
Other Worlds
352. Indigenous Peoples Protecting and Restoring the Environmental Commons
Kimberly Wasserman
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO)
LVEJO's coordinator, Kimberly Wasserman Nieto, has worked at LVEJO since it was founded in 1998. She has participated and facilitated in National Trainings with Community Toolbox and the USEPA. She also participated in the community development and popular education program in Chicago: once as a trainee and the second time as a facilitator. She previously worked at the Little Village Boys & Girls Club as the Computer Coordinator. Her work with LVEJO began when the Club was going to be closed and the staff and students rallied with the help of LVEJO to keep it open. Currently as Coordinator, she oversees the community projects, leadership development and inner workings of the organization. Her biggest accomplishment to date is raising three community organizers aged 11, 4 and 1.
171. Developing Local Economies through Local Food
451. Green Racism, Capitalism, and Environmental Injustice
Acca Warren
knowing my condition is the reason i must change. lauryn hill.
444. Money and Relationships: A Workshop About Class Privilege
Cheyenna Weber
Responsible Endowments Coalition, US Solidarity Economy Network Organizing and Education Task Force
As REC's organizing director, Cheyenna supports students in bringing responsible investing to their social and environmental justice campaigns. Based in NYC, and originally from rural West Virginia, Cheyenna began organizing in Appalachia, especially around the campaign against mountaintop removal mining. She was a lead organizer with the WV Economic Justice Coalition while pursuing a B.A. in History and English at West Virginia University. She has also served as a regional organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops and a community leader in the anti-war movement. After college she headed to grad school to study history, and taught for two years in community colleges in NYC. When not working on social justice issues she enjoys sailing on a 125-year-old schooner, writing, and hanging out in lower Manhattan.
341. Using College Endowments to Change the World: Strategies from the Campus Responsible Investment Movement
Donele Wilkins
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ)
451. Green Capitalism, Racism and Environmental Injustice
Elandria Williams
The Highlander Center, US Solidarity Economy Network
Elandria Williams is on the Highlander Research and Education Center's education team and coordinates intergenerational organizing for the Seeds of Fire program and Justice School. She has been involved in activism and organizing since she was a youth, and worked in popular education and community organizing around anti-oppression, anti-racism, nonviolence, education reform, and intergenerational education with various organizations. She is also on the coordinating committee of the Solidarity Economy Network and the Black Immigration Network and is a part of the Groundwork: Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression Training and Organizing Collective.
122. Popular Education
452. Rural Organizing
Cooperative Leadership Track: Anti-Oppression Training
Andy Wolber
NPower Michigan
Andy Wolber has led technology workshops for hundreds of nonprofit organizations throughout the Midwest. Prior to joining NPower Michigan, Andy worked for USWeb/CKS, where he developed Internet strategies for Fortune 500 clients, and for a nonprofit regional hospital system. He previously had been Executive Director of the Dallas Historical Society and served as board chairman of the Dallas Arts District Friends. Andy spent three years in fundraising roles for nonprofit cultural organizations, including Dallas Black Dance Theatre. Andy holds an MBA/MA in Arts Administration from Southern Methodist University, and a BA in music theory and composition from Spring Arbor University.
Staff & Managers Track: Free and Low Cost Resources