The OANM Team
dani leonardo
Communications Lead
USA
dani (they/she) is a facilitator, organizer and musician, with a background in Permaculture Design and youth mentoring. dani brings a grounding in ecological wisdom, perspectives from the margins, and a centering in Anti-Oppressive Practice. dani’s work centers around collaboration, co-liberation, creativity and justice. In their free time you can find dani at the piano, playing with their bunny Leftie, and exploring wild places. dani is a lover of the color purple and a nerd for plants, polyrhythms, and Hayao Miyazaki movies, amongst many other things.
Charmaine Blaize
Outreach & Accessibility Associate
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 advocate for disability justice, and passionate about creating inclusive events. She is a certified OANM facilitator.
Crystal Arnold
General Manager
Crystal is the Director of Education at the Post Growth Institute. She is the founder of Money-Morphosis and creator of the Money-Wise Women podcast, with over 100 episodes between 2016-2020. 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. She has inspired hundreds of people to have a healthier relationship with money. Her courses serve to illuminate the individual’s relationship with money and value. 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.
Donnie Maclurcan
OANM Creator
Argentina
Donnie (he/him) is passionate about all things not-for-profit. Originally from Australia, and having spent the past decade in the U.S., he moved to Argentina in 2022. From there he leads the Post Growth Institute, exploring how we accelerate the transition to a society that thrives within ecological limits. Donnie sees purpose-driven business as central to this shift, drawing from his work as a consultant to more than 500 not-for-profit projects. An Affiliate Professor of Economics at Southern Oregon University and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Donnie holds a Ph.D. in social science, with his research having explored nanotechnology’s implications for global inequality and sustainability.
Gabriela Safay
Director of Wellbeing
USA
Gabriela is a recent graduate passionate about regenerative economies, embodied social justice, and using grief as a tool for connection and transformation. She found out about the PGI through an internship with SOCAN, where she created the Businesses Taking Action Survey to measure the social and environmental impacts of local businesses. She wants to help shape a world where economies and social systems work for nature, not against it. She was born and raised in Ashland, Oregon and is currently living on Ohlone land also known as Santa Cruz, California. When she’s not working she enjoys laying in the sun, walking in the forest, and dancing.
Aynur Yilmaz
OANM Research Manager
United Kingdom
In her university years, Aynur developed a keen interest in the adverse effects of growth-oriented economies on society and the environment. While working in export finance, her enthusiasm for research and learning helped her further her studies, and she got her PhD in Economics with a thesis on Türkiye’s energy consumption structure. She hopes growth-oriented economic policies will evolve into “alternative” models considering planetary boundaries and human values, and is exploring ways she can contribute to this transition. Originally from Türkiye, she now lives in Norfolk, UK; her family is at the center of her life and she strives to balance her mind, soul, and body through yoga, aikido, and caring for her cats.
Ryan Swick
Business Strategist
USA
Ryan is a seasoned business management professional, with multiple years of experience building software and services products at Fortune 500 companies, where he began questioning the idea of endless growth on a finite planet. He is now excited about demonstrating post-growth business alternatives modeled on the natural world. Small-scale organic farming and food forestry are also passions. Ryan currently resides in the unceded lands of the Duwamish in present day Seattle, and he loves hiking and backpacking throughout the Pacific Northwest.