USA

Crystal is the founder of Money-Morphosis and two online webinar courses. After graduating from Southern Oregon University in 2007 with a degree in international economics, she has designed and facilitated workshops, community events, and discussion panels about money. Her written work has appeared in journals, magazines, and in the book called Reinhabiting the Village. She lives in Oregon with her husband and two children.

USA

dani is a facilitator, youth mentor, writer & musician, passionate about community building and the role of art & music in healing & justice work. Dani has been working since 2020 with the Post Growth Institute, and is Equity Director. Dani was born and raised in Ashland, Oregon & loves to snowboard in winter, plant seeds in spring, explore rivers in summer, jump in leaf piles in fall & admire the color purple all year round.

USA

Mike is a writer, urban cyclist, facilitator, and solidarity economy organizer with the Kola Nut Collaborative: Chicago’s only time-based service and skills exchange (otherwise known as a timebank) providing an open platform for mutual aid, community organizing, and network weaving.He is a past participant in Nexus Community Partners’ Cooperative Developer Fellowship and LIFT Economy’s Next Economy MBA. He is currently a member of the inaugural cohorts of Post Growth Institute’s Post Growth Fellowship and AORTA’s (Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance) Headwaters Facilitation Apprenticeship.He is a Program Manager at Open Collective Foundation and serves on the boards of the US Solidarity Economy Network, New Economy Coalition, South Deering Manor Community Association, and Dill Pickle Food Co-op.

USA

Tannur is a mother, farmer, facilitator and poet. She is the founder of iLOGIC: Institute for the Love Of Genius In Community – a global community which promotes teaching and learning, based on interest.
Her goal is to facilitate community action and activism through education and empowerment. Along with homeschooling her three children for seven years, she has facilitated Offers and Needs Markets, arts events, conferences, social artistry trainings, spoken word workshops and more throughout the US and Europe.

New York, USA

Ebony is a web weaver, community architect, and storyteller. Before producing and hosting Cooperative Journal podcast, she journeyed around the world collecting stories across cultures, experientially learning tools for self-sufficiency, and researching indigenous plants. Throughout that time she felt the power of human and non-human relationships, trust, and what agency feels like. Her intention is to collectively cultivate that same sense of awareness and embodiment through solidarity economy storytelling, placemaking projects, facilitation, and asset based mapping. Ebony is originally from Brooklyn, NY, and loves trying obscure fruits and vegetables, nerding out on solidarity economy models, and yoga.

Australia

Lizz is an educator at Wild Mountains environmental education centre in Queensland, Australia. She runs programs from the IEE (Institute for Earth Education) with primary and secondary schools, pioneered in school programs for Plastic Free July, and helped manage a community build of a straw bale house. Graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Consumer Behaviour, Grad Dip. Psy and pursuing a future career as a psychologist Lizz has naturally fallen into a passion for Offers and Needs Markets.
Identifying as living with disability after her Acquired Brain Injury in 2004 she seeks to create inclusive spaces and safe containers for people to share what is important to them.

 Scotland

Charmaine (she/her) is a solutions driven professional with wide-range of experience in Health, Telecommunications, Education, Publishing and Charity sectors. She is skilled in research, improvement and innovation, data analysis, business redesign, facilitation, and performance. She is an expert in creating inclusive events, and an advocate for disability justice.

Iceland

Tanja is a co-founder and CEO of totel.ly: an online community platform that creates real-world world connections in your local area. She is also a founding member of Kveikja: Social Enterprise Iceland. She is passionate about regenerative lifestyles, creating community experiences that nurture connections, and our love for our local environment through stewardship. She is originally from South Africa and now lives in Iceland with her husband and two children.

USA

Lynn is a community entrepreneur, facilitator, and economic justice activist. She partners with low income and BIPOC communities to build community-owned solar and community based enterprises that bring quality jobs, sustainable products and services, and valuable assets to local communities. She has worked with non-profits, governmental entities, community development corporations, planning commissions, businesses, academic institutions, and cooperatives on sustainable energy projects and business development efforts. She believes people have the knowledge and power to make significant changes in their lives and brings a lot of love to help them manifest their dreams.

Australia

David is a highly experienced trainer, coach and facilitator who has worked extensively in the corporation, government, and community sectors. His general focus is leadership, teams and strategy. David holds degrees in sports, business and education. He has expertise in group engagement and collaboration. David spends time researching and writing on leadership development for new leaders. He also casually works in mental health as well as a mentor volunteer and as a digital crisis counsellor. David is based in Melbourne, Australia with his wife, two boys and dogs.

Oregon, USA

Ingrid is the Chief Empowerment Officer at the award winning consulting firm, Priestess Of Profits. A Woodard Certified Business Coach and Positive Intelligence Certified Mental Fitness Coach, she is recognized as one of the accounting profession’s Top 40 Under 40 and Most Powerful Women in Accounting. She became interested in post-growth approaches as a way to bridge the gaps between business and personal, magick and science, economy and environment. Ingrid is the leader of the Empower Your Passion Roundtable mastermind group for accountants, a member of the Intuit Trainer/Writer Network, founder of the Accounting Alchemy Network, and volunteer course facilitator for the Pachamama Alliance. She loves playing Irish music and frolicking with her goats on her little farm in Ashland, Oregon.

France

Olga graduated with a master degree in Business Law, and a postgraduate in entrepreneurship from the United Spaces and Germany. Olga has spent a large part of her life abroad. She has worked with European institutions, law firms, and NGOs and is the founder of a tech start-up called BumbleBee Space.

Arizona, USA

As a holistic leadership mentor, Deborah partners with purpose-driven leaders and organizations to successfully navigate our current metacrisis (global period of transition) with optimism. 

An inquisitive revolutionary born of world-traveling West African parents, she searched for 3 decades over 3 continents for – she didn’t know it at the time – psychological safety.

Now, she transfers to others her skillset of cultivating genuine psychological safety and trust in their homes and organizations.

Iceland

Margarita Hamatsu is an educator and facilitator with a passion for nature, sustainability, and human development. With a B.A. in International Studies in Education, an M.Ed. in Science Education, and training as a life coach, she has dedicated her career to empowering individuals and fostering transformative learning experiences. Born in Tokyo with Japanese and Filipino heritage, Margarita now works as a nature-based education teacher, inspiring young children to connect with the natural world. Her diverse roles in education, from teaching to curriculum development, reflect her commitment to meaningful growth and development. As a facilitator with Global Eco Village and a certified trainer, she excels at creating inclusive spaces that inspire curiosity and connection. Margarita’s vision is to guide participants toward sustainable growth, resilience, and purpose, empowering them to catalyze positive change in their communities.