Angel Adehoya
The Icarus Project
I am a queer, trans, dis/abled, mixed-race activist. 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'm also currently a peer counselor for the Gender Identity Project at the LGBT Center of NYC and a member of the Trans Community Advisory Board at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. 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.
2343. Mad Maps and Other Tools for Building Peer Mental Health Support in Co-ops
Morgan Andrews
Life Center Association, Philadelphia Theater of the Oppressed
Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews is an artist, author and actor in the Theater of the Oppressed (TO) and a co-oper 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.
141. Theater of the Oppressed: Theater for Cooperative Communication and Problem-Solving
Bench Ansfield
Philly Stands Up
142. WE CAN DO THIS | Applying Transformative Justice in Cooperative Communities: A Case Study in Addressing Sexualized Violence
Dan Apfel
Responsible Endowments Coalition
Dan Apfel is the executive director of the Responsible Endowments Coalition, which works with students to change how colleges and universities invest their money, where he oversees both the community investment and active (shareholder) ownership programs. Prior to joining the REC Dan served as a Program Officer at the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions, where he worked with credit unions serving diverse low- and moderate-income communities around the country. While living in Rochester, NY Dan also lived in and served on the boards of two student housing cooperatives, the EcoHouse and the Ant Hill Cooperative.
312. Mapping University Investments - Current Connections and Creating Change
David Arfa
Stone Soup Cooperative
David Arfa has been a member at a NASCO cooperative for about 7 years. In college, he lived in the Sherwood Cooperative in Seattle and currently lives in the Stone Soup Cooperative- Ashland House in Chicago. He got his BA in Geography and BFA in Printmaking from the University of Washington and now works for the Cook County government's GIS Department. Every workday he goes on imaginary trips around the county during the process of making maps.
231. Basics of GIS: Contextualizing Cooperatives
Ben Ayer
Kalamazoo Collective Housing, Kalamazoo Peace Center
Benjamin Ayer Is a Community Organizer at a state college in a low income town. He has been working for the Peace Center for 3 years now. He hails from from Ann Arbor where he was part of ICC Ann Arbor. He learned his coopertive spirit at a Co-op Camp in SW Michigan. He'll be happy to show you around Ann Arbor. You can learn more about the peace center by visiting www.Kzoopeacecenter.org
211. College Town Organizing
John Balliet
Born and raised on a farm in Bucks County, PA by back-to-the-land parents, John Balliet has lived in New York since 1994 when he came to study History and Medieval Languages at NYU. John currently resides in Brooklyn in a co-operative house he co-founded earlier this year and is pursuing certification to teach Social Studies at the high school level.
431. Co-op NYC: Geographies of Cooperation & Affordable Housing
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. Her current mission as part of Qumbya cooperative is to help the coop transition from crises management to greater achievements. Personal and professional interests include education for social justice, math games, scavenger hunts, scrabble, queerness, and local history.
261. Navigating Labor-Sharing Challenges
Jeff Bessmer
Summit Ave. Co-op, Madison Co-op Network, Willy St. Grocery Co-op
After moving to Madison, WI in 2007, Jeff began working with housing, consumer, and worker owned co-ops. Now living at Summit Ave and working at Willy St, he also worked with Madison co-operators to start a cross industry co-op, The Madison Co-op Network, that is owned by and serves 4 housing co-ops and 2 worker co-ops. Jeff sits on the board of directors for all 3 co-ops he works with directly, does consulting for other co-ops, and is entranced by poems about love and inspiration.
162. How to Make Your Community's Zoning Code Co-op Friendly
Alix Black
NASCO Education Board, 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.
542. Appropriate vs. Appropriation: Culture, Respect, and Inclusivity in Our Co-ops
Beth Blum
Philly Stands Up
142. WE CAN DO THIS | Applying Transformative Justice in Cooperative Communities: A Case Study in Addressing Sexualized Violence
Tyrone Boucher
AORTA
Tyrone Boucher is the co-founder of the website Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism, and leads workshops on class, anti-capitalism, and wealth redistribution. He does organizing, training, and grassroots fundraising work with POOR Magazine, the Catalyst Project, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, and Resource Generation, and is a core member of the Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA). Tyrone currently lives in Philadelphia and is a member of the staff collective at the Mariposa Food 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.
442. Navigating Class Issues in Cooperative Communities
Evan Casper-Futterman
Land of Opportunity
Evan Casper-Futterman is a Masters student of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of New Orleans. He joined the Land of Opportunity team in January 2008 after volunteering and providing logistical support for a series of grassroots campaigns around public housing and homelessness in New Orleans in 2007. He helped edit and produce The Heart Rots First, a visual art installation at Studio527 for ProspectOne from November 2008 to January 2009. He graduated in 2007 from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, with a B.A. in Geography.
Film Festival: Land of Opportunity
Emily Cheney
Santa Barbara Student Housing Coop, Central Coast Community Coop (C4)
Emily currently serves as the Executive Director for the Santa Barbara Student Housing Coop. As SBSHC staff, she helps to maintain and operate four large properties while expanding into a fifth. Her co-operative experience began in Indiana with the development of Bloomington Cooperative Living, Incorporated, a community housing cooperative - 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 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]
571. Developing New Co-ops Part Five: Putting it All Together: The Business Plan
Kristen Cox
Fire This Time Fund
Kristen Cox is a Chicago-based resource developer, cultural worker, donor organizer, and community programmer. She has over twelve years experience working in varying capacities for the non-profit, contemporary arts, community development, and philanthropic sectors. She is the founder of The Fire This Time Fund, an independent giving circle which makes small grants to uninstitutionally-supported creative social change projects in the Chicagoland area. Finding her way to the cooperative credit union movement only recently, she is the Marketing and Community Relations Manager for the North Side Community Federal Credit Union. Known to have appeared on stage as Barry Manilow, Kristen is also a performer, writer and part family farm owner in Kentucky.
263. Grassroots Gazillionaires! Map Your Community Assets to Fund Your Projects
Eric DeLuca
Franklin Community Co-op; Vermont Agriculture Innovation Center
Eric DeLuca specializes in collaborative leadership, innovation, and profound change. He incubated the Neighboring Food Cooperative Association (NFCA), a New England network. Eric is secretary of NCBA's 2012 - International Year of Cooperatives Outreach Committee, actively planning FoodCorps, and co-leading the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group's Processing Infrastructure team. Previously, he was Project Manager at Dialogos, a world leader in large-systems change. Eric serves on the boards of Franklin Community Co-op, the Vermont Agriculture Innovation Center, and California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Alumni Association. He holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA in Integrated Media from CalArts.
321. Building Regional Cooperation: Where Co-ops, Food Systems, and Geography Intersect
Jeremiah Devlin-Ruelle
ICC Ann Arbor
Jeremiah is the president of ICC-Ann Arbor and former Vice President for Education. An undergrad in U of M's Screen Arts & Cultures program, Jeremiah's work has been primarily in the field of PEG (Public, Educational, Governmental) video.
361. Introduction to Cooperative Personnel Management
Steve Dubb
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.
111. Co-ops & Community Development: Bridging the Gap
332. Mapping Your Community Assets
River Willow Fagan
River Willow Fagan is a queer and genderqueer writer and activist from Southeast Michigan. Zie helped cofound the Ann Arbor Free School and the Ann Arbor Icarus Project. Zir writings have appeared in Critical Moment, Fantasy Magazine and the zine absent cause and will be forthcoming in the anthology Queering Mental Health and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's new anthology. Zie has presented workshops on trauma, writing, healing and radical mental health at the Allied Media Conference, the Kalamazoo Peace Center and Ann Arbor DIY Fests. Follow zir exploits at phoenixandtree.wordpress.com.
Friday evening: Writing Our Way Home: Using Poetry and Prose to Map the Roots of Pain and Envision Routes to Transformation
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.
171. Developing New Cooperatives Part I: Getting Organized for Small Co-ops
371. Developing New Co-ops Part Three: Assessing Financial Feasibility: What Can You Afford?
Patrick Ford
NASCO Education Board
Patrick Ford is currently a member NASCO's board. He lived in the Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC), specifically in Lothlorien for three years. He sat on the BSC's board as a director from 2006-2007, and served as the president from 2007-2008. Patrick is wildly interested in communication, mediation, facilitation, and community building. He also enjoys taking high school students on backpacking trips and working for Burning Man.
262. Board Roles and Responsibilities
Seth Frey
Bloomington Cooperative Living
Seth Frey is a student of community and collective action, taking his daily lessons (a) from hundreds of past coop housemates and (b) his graduate program at Indiana University, where he studies group and collective behavior. At its best, science is a tool for building consensus.
562. The Cooperator's Nobel Prize: Institutions and Intentional Community
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
CUNY, GEO Newsletter Collective, Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy
Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Department of African American Studies at John Jay College, City University of New York. She previously taught at Howard University and the University of MD, College Park. Dr. Gordon Nembhard is a political economist specializing in economic development policy, Black political economy, and popular economic literacy. Her research focuses on democratic community economics, cooperative businesses, worker ownership, and racial wealth inequality. She is a member of the board of directors of ONE DC and a co-founder of the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy; the Democracy Collaborative; and the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network. In addition, she is a charter member of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives; and a member of: Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) Newsletter, The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, the Association of Cooperative Educators, and the Canadian Association for the Study of Cooperatives. She was appointed to the Black Enterprise Board of Economists in October 1999.
412. History of African-American Cooperatives
Em Gormley
Oberlin Student Cooperative Association
Em Gormley has been involved with cooperatives in various regards for the past three years, and is passionate about the role that co-ops can play in building an inclusive and intersectional movement for social justice. To this end, Em currently works as an Accessibility Coordinator for the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, and co-chairs OSCA's Committee on Privilege and Oppression. Ze serves as a facilitator for trans allyship workshops with the Oberlin College Multicultural Resource Center, as well as a semester-long course / discussion group on white privilege and anti-racist organizing. Em is also passionate about the use of art and visual media as a catalyst for positive social change and community building, and has been involved with at Reach Studio Art Center in Lansing, MI, a non-profit community art studio that offers low-cost art education and studio space to youth and adults. In hir spare time, Em enjoys making experimental vegan baked goods, drinking iced coffee, and having lots of adventures.
441. Trans Allyship 101
Michael Gregor
Kalamazoo Collective Housing; NASCO Education Board
Michael Gregor serves as the Executive Director at Kalamazoo Collective Housing (www.kalamazoo.coop). He is also a freelance web designer and photographer. He sits on the NASCO Board of Directors. Michael has been active in community organizing, transportation activism, clean energy campaigns, social justice coalition building, peace education, journalism, and anti-oppression education. 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 New Co-ops Part One: Getting Organized for Small Co-ops
Stephanie Guico
Coopérative La maison verte, MMCCU (St Mary's University), CIBL Radio Montréal
Stephanie Guico works, lives and grows in Montreal, Québec. A post-graduate student at St Mary's University, she is a student in the Master of Management - Cooperatives and Credit Unions Program. She puts her learning into practice as a worker member at Coopérative La maison verte, where she also represents workers on the board of directors. In addition, Stephanie has recently integrated the team of the only social & solidarity economy radio show in Québec, À l'échelle humaine, where she is a volunteer journalist and occasional director. She has also had the honor of being invited to collaborate with the Co-operative CURA titled Measuring the Co-operative Difference, assisting with the development of a cooperative management tool gauging the participation of members, managers and employees in a cooperative as a measure of its success. In her spare time, she knits wrist warmers while listening to conscious hip hop.
111. Co-ops & Community Development: Bridging the Gap
Erin Hancock
Canadian Co-operative Association, Canadian Co-operative Youth Caucus
Erin has been involved in co-operation in a variety of ways for the past decade including co-op development, worker co-ops, co-op education, online media, research, serving on the steering committee for a provincial council and youth camps. Currently Erin is the Program Coordinator for the Research, Education and Co-operation Hub (REACH), the training and consultancy arm of the Canadian Co-operative Association. Erin was recently elected to the Executive Committee of NASCO and currently participates in the Canadian Co-operative Youth Caucus. Erin also writes for a weekly co-op youth column within an online newsletter as part of the Rising Tide Collective and is involved in the Ottawa Women's Credit Union, planning for 30th anniversary celebrations.
121. Mapping Co-operation From Sea to Sea: Exploring Co-ops in North America
561. Mapping a Life in Co-ops: Exploring Opportunities to Have More Cooperation in Your Life
Nicki Hurley
Kalamazoo Peace Center
Nicki Hurley will graduate with her bachelors in social work from Western Michigan University in December of 2010. She will attend graduate school at Western Michigan university in May of 2011 to receive her MSW in policy planning and administration in April of 2012. She has been an organizer through Swords into Plowshares Peace Center of Kalamazoo since September of 2009 and has also organized other social justice events and fundraising activities through various other organizations. She is a current resident of the Fletcher collective and is the current board chair for Kalamazoo Collective Housing. Nicki has also directed a 50 minute documentary titled My Eyes Your Eyes. The purpose of this film is to reduce stereotyping and discrimination of people who are blind and visually impaired by educating the public of this vulnerable population through multimedia. She is currently working on her second documentary which will cover many forms of homelessness. Her hobbies include cooking, playing the piano and dancing.
211. College Town Organizing
Ajowa Ifateyo
Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative, Grassroots Economic Organizing, NASCO Development Services, Democracy at Work Institute, and Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy
Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo is a co-editor for the Grassroots Economic Organizing newsletter, and a long time member of the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy. She was a founding board member of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, has been a member of the NASCO board and is currently a member of NASCO Development Services. She has both an MBA and a Masters of Science degree in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, and is currently organizing Beautiful World Cooperative and Business Services.
173. Organizing Community Affordable Housing Cooperatives: Lessons from the Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative
412. History of African-American Cooperatives
Jim Jones
NASCO Development Services
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.
172. Developing New Co-ops Part One: Getting Organized for Expanding Co-ops
Esteban Kelly
CUNY Graduate Center, AORTA, Mariposa Food Co-op
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 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. 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. Finally, Esteban administers Black Maps, a blog reflecting on pretty much all of the issues and hobbies stated above: www.blackmaps.wordpress.com
142. WE CAN DO THIS | Applying Transformative Justice in Cooperative Communities: A Case Study in Addressing Sexualized Violence
2333. "Choose Your Own Adventure" Community Cartography from West Philly and Beyond
Patricia Kinch
Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative
Tricia Kinch is one of the founding members of Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative. She served as President of this non-profit corporation from 1999 - 2008. Kinch has spent the past thirty years as a political organizer and a community activist in Washington, DC. She holds an M.S. in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University.
173. Organizing Community Affordable Housing Cooperatives: Lessons from the Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative
412. History of African-American Cooperatives
Fuzzy Konner
Center for Community Based Enterprise, United Students for Fair Trade, ICC Ann Arbor
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, and is currently working with the Center for Community Based Enterprise (C2BE) to help create worker co-ops in Detroit. He is also a web developer, and likes hugs.
413. Fair Trade, Your University, and the Co-op Movement
Yoni Landau
CoFed
Yonatan Landau is the co-founder and director of the Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive (CoFed), a network, training program and research institue that helps students create sustainable food cooperatives on their campuses. After launching a successful campaign to prevent the first fast food chain from opening at UC Berkeley, he helped raise over $120,000 for a cooperative alternative, the Berkeley Student Food Collective. He loves to cook vegetables in his Oakland kitchen and enjoys improv theater, singing and smiling too.
2312. CoFed: A Cooperative Groundswell Through the Campus Food Movements
Clementine Lazar
Twin Oaks; Federation of Egalitarian Communities
Clementine Lazar is a former member of the Inter-Cooperative Council and currently lives at Twin Oaks Community, an income-sharing commune in rural Virginia. She serves on the community's conflict resolution team, hangs around with cows and chickens, and generally lives it up as much as possible.
311. Radical Sharing & Cooperation: Life on an Egalitarian Commune
Jess Little
Acorn Community; Federation of Egalitarian Communities
Jess Little has been living in FEC communities for the last five years, first at Twin Oaks and currently at Acorn Community. She does everything from web design and food processing to fixing cars and traveling about convincing folks that the FEC is awesome.
311. Radical Sharing & Cooperation: Life on an Egalitarian Commune
San Maday Travis
Oberlin Student Cooperative Association
San Maday Travis is a Trans Allyship Training Facilitator with the Multicultural Resource Center at Oberlin College. San is a member of the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association (OSCA), and has served their 65-person dining coop as a discussion facilitator, composter, recycler, trainer, and late-night snacker over the last 3.5 years.
441. Trans Allyship 101
Liz Mason Deese
Counter Cartographies Collective
Liz Mason-Deese is a member of 3Cs, the Counter-Cartographies Collective. 3Cs is a radical map-making affinity group based out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina that works mainly on questions of labor, political economy and the university. Liz Mason-Deese is currently a fourth-year PhD student in Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research deals with autonomous urban social movements in Latin America.
Keynote Presentation: Counter-Mapping for a Co-op World
333. Q & A with the Counter Cartographies Collective
Geoff Mayers
ICC Ann Arbor
Lincoln Miller has lived in co-ops ranging in size from 7-27 people and has been involved with co-op development for 10 years. In that time he has been a founding member of 3 non-profit cooperative organizations. In 1996 Lincoln created the Boulder Housing Coalition (BHC), a 501(C)(3) Community Housing Development Organization, with Boulder Mayor and Campus Co-op Hall of Famer Will Toor. Between 1999 and 2002 Lincoln and Tony Sanny co-founded the Masala Co-op and worked on the acquisition of Masala for the the BHC. In 2004 as the BHC Executive Director Lincoln led the acquisition of the Chrysalis co-op for the Boulder Housing Coalition. This created the first permanently affordable cooperative housing system in Colorado. The Boulder Housing Coalition is working towards Boulders first student co-op, equity co-op developments, a green built demonstration house co-op and an urban eco-village. He currently serves as an NDS appointed representative on the NASCO Properties board, and he serves on the Fellowship of Intentional Communities (FIC) board.
251. Hands-on Maintenance Skillshare
Daniel Miller
NASCO Properties, Sasona Coop
Daniel Miller has lived in and worked with student, community, and food coops since 1998. Daniel currently works for NASCO doing cooperative development work and assisting NASCO Properties coops, as well educating NASCO members on some legal issues, budgeting, and planning. He also cares deeply about creating more inclusive communities within coops and about encouraging coop members to engage with their surrounding communities and municipalities.
251. Basic Budget Fluency
452. Fair Housing and Open Membership: Could Your Membership Policies Get You in Legal Trouble?
Lincoln Miller
Boulder Housing Coalition, NASCO Properties
131. Using Community Mapping to Build New Coops
Corrigann Nadon-Nichols
NASCO Properties, Qumbya Cooperative
Corrigan Nadon-Nichols joined the NASCO Properties Board officially in November 2008 and has served as president since then. Corrigan is a member of Qumbya Housing Cooperative in Chicago, IL and also Qumbya's sole part-time staff person. Corrigan was drawn irrecoverably into the co-op world, both professionally and domestically, when he began attending NP Board Meetings and NASCO Institute in 2007. He maintains a low-level meeting addiction, and abiding infatuations with bookkeeping and conflict mediation
461. Roadmap to Cooperative Accounting Success: Principles & Purpose
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).
471. Developing New Cooperatives Part Four: Purchase or Lease a House for a Housing Co-op
kiran nigam
AORTA
kiran is an educator. She is a proud founding member of AORTA, the Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance. Through this trainers' alliance through she educates, trains, and consults with cooperatives and collectives on topics addressing social justice, communication, community support, and collective functioning. She is coming to accept that she is a movement conference organizer: she worked day and night as part of the core organizing team for the US Social Forum, organized the NASCO Institute for a few years running, and most recently was a devoted member of the conference coordination team for the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. She is a former NASCO staff and Board member. Her interests include: democratic and popular education, Theater of the Oppressed, art & design, neurology, radical mental health, and food.
2362. Educate to Cooperate: Building Our Coop Education and Training Programs
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 and is currently pursuing her masters degree in Urban Studies and Non-Profit Business Management. 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.
153. Dynamic Meeting Facilitation & Agenda Planning
Kas O-P
Santa Cruz Student Housing Cooperative, NASCO Education Board
232. Digital Storytelling
Rahnee Patrick
Access Living
Rahnee Patrick is Director of Independent Living at Access Living. Her father is an Air Force veteran who met her Thai mother during the Viet Nam/American War. She graduated from Indiana University, where she co-founded Students Together Able and Respected (STAAR), comprised of disabled students. Today she is an organizer in the direct action group ADAPT and committed civil disobedience innumerous times. She conceived the ADAPT Youth Summit and was the recipient of the 2008 Paul Hearne Award of the American Association of People with Disabilities. She and her husband Mike Ervin live in downtown Chicago with their dog Rosita.
443. Who Is Missing From Your Co-op? Welcome People with Disabilities Into Your Co-op
Ben Pearl
Ben Pearl has been a longtime advocate for sustainability and the cooperative model in Davis, California. He is a founding member of the Davis Cooperative Community Network, and has served on boards and committees for the Davis Food Co-op, the Solar Community Housing Association (SCHA), and the Davis Farm to School Connection. Ben is currently employed as Project Manager for SCHA's $.5 M renovation of two 1930's homes into a sustainably-retrofitted, 8 bedroom affordable housing co-op.
362. Green Retrofitting for Co-ops
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
NASCO Education Board, AORTA, Left Turn
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. After ten years of experience developing and facilitating various anti-oppression workshops and trainings, Lydia is excited to be a founding member of the Anti-Oppression Resource Trainer Alliance (AORTA). She lives in New Orleans where she has been involved in a range of racial and economic justice struggles particularly related to housing and prisons and policing. Lydia is also currently a graduate student at the University of New Orleans in Urban Studies where she studies Louisiana anti-prison activism. In her spare time, she enjoys wearing parading in glitter, drinking iced coffee, and living in a subtropical climate.
2342. Building White Anti-Racist Praxis
541. Institutionalized Patriarchy: Mapping Our Resistance
Kim Penna
College Houses
Kim Penna has been a co-oper for 9 years. Her love of cooperation began in the 21st St. Co-op in Austin, Tx and has led her to become a staff member at College Houses, the Development office for the NASCO board of directors, and a charter member-owner of Black Star Co-op Brewery and Pub. She feels that cooperative living can solve some of the fundamental problems within our society and plans to prove that to the world.
151. Best Practices: Member Education and New Member Orientation
561. Mapping a Life in Co-ops: Exploring Opportunities to Have More Cooperation in Your Life
Jenna Peters Golden
Philly Stands Up, AORTA
142. WE CAN DO THIS | Applying Transformative Justice in Cooperative Communities: A Case Study in Addressing Sexualized Violence
522. Borders, Walls and Occupied Places: Lessons from South African Apartheid, Solidarity with Palestine, & Implementing BDS Campaigns on your Campus and Co-op
Sarah Pike
Association of Cooperative Educators
Sarah Pike works for Common Enterprise Development Corporation (CEDC), a nonprofit development corporation created to assist individuals and entities in the startup, expansion or operational improvement of businesses, especially cooperatively- or mutually-owned businesses. As part of her role at CEDC, Sarah administers the Association of Cooperative Educators (ACE). ACE is a membership organization that brings together educators and cooperators across North America, representing several different cooperative sectors. As the Executive Administrator, Sarah leads membership outreach and the planning efforts of the annual ACE Institute, a conference dedicated to highlighting innovative programs in cooperative education.
121. Mapping Co-operation From Sea to Sea: Exploring Co-ops in North America
Adam Porton
Madison Community Cooperative
For the past two years Adam has served as the President of the Madison Community Cooperative (MCC), an eleven building coop network in Madison, WI. His recent focus has been on expanding the local housing coop movement, in particular by working to start new cooperatives in areas traditionally underserved by the Madison coop community. As a part of these efforts Adam has worked closely with other area coops to lobby for city zoning language that doesn't discriminate against cooperative housing models.
162. How to Make Your Community's Zoning Code Co-op Friendly
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.
152. Common Feast: Kitchen Management, Cheap Meals, and Meeting the Needs of Your Co-op Crowd
Lisa Richter
Earthworks Urban Farm
Lisa Richter is the Outreach Coordinator for the Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s Earthworks Urban Farm. In that role, she coordinates volunteers, community engagement, and educational events to work towards a just, beautiful food system for all. Believing that all people should have access to good, safe food and strong communities, she has successfully worked towards having soup kitchen clients involved in and leading food justice activities, such as running a fresh produce mobile market project and community cooking events. She played a lead role in founding a local community association, in developing a volunteer outreach team, and in inspiring dialogue and action for dismantling racism in Detroit’s food system.
A Michigan native, Lisa graduated from the University of Michigan with an Environmental Studies degree and has enjoyed the challenges and beauty of life in Detroit since. She enjoys spending her free time at the local farmer’s market and with her neighbors in the Shipherd Greens Community Garden.
411. Undoing Racism in Detroit's Food System
Ivan Safrin
Ivan Safrin is a Russian-born visual artist and programmer living in New York City. Through his work, he strives to combine his technical knowledge with a passion for information design and a deep interest in the exploration of the urban environment.
431. Co-op NYC: Geographies of Cooperation & Affordable Housing
Ashley Satorius
US Federation of Worker Co-ops, Hub Bike Co-op, US SEN
Ashley Satorius lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She came to cooperatives from the field of anti-oppression. She has been working at The Hub (a worker cooperative bike shop in Minneapolis) for going on 4 years. she has been on the board of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives since 2009 and has also been working on the board of the Solidarity Economy Network. Locally, ashley is working with Browning The Green (a group thinking about anti-racism in the environmental movement), and furthering her own education around white privilege. When not doing other busy-ness, Ashley enjoys soaking up vitamin D from sun rays and making apple pies with friends.
212. Mapping the Solidarity Economy
Laird Schaub
Fellowship for Intentional Community
Laird Schaub has lived 36 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.
161. Power Dynamics and Leadership in Cooperative Groups
451. Conflict: Fight, Flight, or Opportunity?
521. Overview of the North American Intentional Communities Movement (And How Student Co-ops Fit Into It)
Matt Senate
Berkeley Student Cooperative
Matt Senate is an undergraduate at UC Berkeley who studies Mathematics but spends his time worrying about access to education, research, and other important resources. He has been a co-op member in the Berkeley Student Cooperative for over three years and currently lives in the 56-person house of Andres Castro Arms. Matt is the former Member Advocate, current BSC webmaster, and sits on the IT (Information Technology) committee.
331. Navigating Co-op Websites, Intranets, and Information Technology
Sabrina Sideris
Boulder Housing Coalition, University of Colorado-Boulder
Sabrina is a peace educator. Her professional purpose is to help young adults come to life as conscientious, concerned citizens of the world community of human and non-human neighbors. She works to support learners as they decide upon a course of reflective action for social change, dedicating their very lives to justice & peace work.
With an MA in Peace Education from the UN-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica, she currently works as Program Director with INVST Community Studies, coordinating the training and instruction for a comprehensive leadership program for University of Colorado-Boulder students who are interested in justice & environmental sustainability. She lives in community at the Masala Co-op and is president of the Boulder Housing Coalition board.
221. Cooperation Across Borders: People, Places, and Movements in Mexico
Rahnee Patrick
Access Living
Rahnee Patrick is Director of Independent Living at Access Living. Her father is an Air Force veteran who met her Thai mother during the Viet Nam/American War. She graduated from Indiana University, where she co-founded Students Together Able and Respected (STAAR), comprised of disabled students. Today she is an organizer in the direct action group ADAPT and committed civil disobedience innumerous times. She conceived the ADAPT Youth Summit and was the recipient of the 2008 Paul Hearne Award of the American Association of People with Disabilities. She and her husband Mike Ervin live in downtown Chicago with their dog Rosita.
443. Who Is Missing From Your Co-op? Welcome People with Disabilities Into Your Co-op
Sarah Snider
Sarah Snider studied history and sociology in London, Paris, and the Bay Area, and now works in architecture and urbanism at the Architectural League of New York. Sarah is a co-founder of a new Brooklyn-based housing cooperative.
431. Co-op NYC: Geographies of Cooperation & Affordable Housing
David Sparer
Herrick & Kasdorf, LLP
David Sparer (aka Rosebud) has been an attorney in Madison Wisconsin since 1979. He lived in a housing coop for 17 years. During the more than 30 years he has been an attorney he has focused on representing and assisting cooperatives and non-profits. He has assisted 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, and dealing with zoning issues. During this time he represented non-profit organizations in obtaining non-profit status, including non-profit status for housing coops all over the country, and property tax exemption in Madison.
162. How to Make Your Community's Zoning Code Co-op Friendly
271. Developing New Co-ops Part Two: Obtaining Tax Exempt Status for Your Co-op
471. Developing New Cooperatives Part Four: 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.
111. Co-ops & Community Development: Bridging the Gap
271. Developing New Co-ops Part Two: Obtaining Tax Exempt Status for Your Co-op
371. Developing New Cooperatives Part III: Assessing Financial Feasibility: What Can You Afford?
Tim Stallman
Counter Cartographies Collective
Tim Stallmann is a member of 3Cs, the Counter-Cartographies Collective. 3Cs is a radical map-making affinity group based out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina that works mainly on questions of labor, political economy and the university. Tim Stallmann is a freelance cartographer and GIS analyst. His current work uses maps to envision local food systems and organize towards food sovereignty.
Keynote Presentation: Counter-Mapping for a Co-op World
333. Q & A with the Counter Cartographies Collective
Stephen Switzer
Stephen Switzer is the co-founder of treehaus, a 14 person housing cooperative in Brooklyn. He studied geography at Middlebury College and now studies massage and western herbalism in New York. Stephen recently joined Third Root Community Health Center, a worker cooperative of alternative health practioners.
Tour: Radical Ann Arbor: A Drifting Exploration of Place
431. Co-op NYC: Geographies of Cooperation & Affordable Housing
Daniel Tucker
AREA Chicago
Daniel Tucker has worked as a cultural and political organizer in Chicago for the last ten years, initiating a number of large-scale collaborative local projects and events. As a consultant, Daniel has helped non-profit organizations of various sizes evaluate and advance their communications work. He is co-creator of the People's Atlas of Chicago and curator of the "We Are Here Maps Archive," a collection of maps and charts about social and political issues which was featured in an Experimental Geography exhibition. His recently completed book, "Farm Together Now," (with co-author Amy Franceschini) maps emerging movements for sustainable food production through interviews with activist farmers across the US.
Keynote Presentation: Counter-Mapping for a Co-op World
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442. Navigating Class Issues in Cooperative Communities
541. Institutionalized Patriarchy: Mapping Our Resistance
Elandria Williams
The Highlander Center
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. Rural, Small Town and Urban Connections
Cooperative Leadership Track
Philly Stands Up
Philly Stands Up is small collective of individuals confronting sexual assault in Philadelphia. Using a transformative justice framework, we work with perpetrators of sexual assault to restore trust and justice within our communities. We believe that supporting and holding perpetrators of sexual assault accountable for their harms is supporting survivors and a way to end sexual assault.
142. WE CAN DO THIS | Applying Transformative Justice in Cooperative Communities: A Case Study in Addressing Sexualized Violence
