I'm the owner of Little Red Tarot, an online shop and social enterprise, where I'm exploring what anticapitalist business might look like, and the role of business/commerce in social revolution. I'm queer, white British, middle class and able-bodied. I live in rural Wales, love community life, long walks, film photography, writing, botany, gardening, tarot and ritual.
https://littleredtarot.com
Valeriya Olegovna Epshteyn
Valeriya Olegovna Epshteyn (she/hers) is the co-eggxecutive director of The Next Egg, a project of the Sustainable Economies Law Center, LIFT Economy, and Michael Shuman. The Next Egg is a community of practice for people with retirement savings who seek to divest from Wall Street and reinvest in the thriving of all life. Valeriya studied Environmental Justice at the University of Michigan and entered social movement work through fossil fuel divestment organizing. She studies with Hong Gwi-Seok at the Iyengar Yoga Detroit Collective. Valeriya is from Ukraine, and she currently lives on Anishinaabe land, aka Highland Park, MI.
Zelia Gonzales
Born in and raised all over Sacramento, CA. I received my BS in Industrial and Labor Relations May 2021 and am currently working on curiosity-based youth-development with Rebel Ventures Network. I am currently learning about fundraising and cooperative organization design.
I’m proud of my playlists, bead-work, and intense excel sheets for planning events and trips. Talk to me about Ireland, We Are Not Really Strangers, pickling vegetables, and beer.
Chris Clarke
I’m currently a Project Coordinator at Daily Acts working to support ecological and community resilience in Sonoma County. I also mentor young people in nature connection and Rites of Passages and have a background in Permaculture design. I am most concerned with avoiding the impending climate disaster while finding ways to address the root issues that plague humanity and allow us to create such inequitable, life destroying systems. My hope is that regenerative business and social entrepreneurship will be an avenue with enough potency to create a more just and beautiful world while reestablishing the health of the ecological systems we depend upon.
Safae Lahgazi Alaoui
I am an African Arab from Morocco currently living in Atlanta, GA. I am an artist with digital skills in web development, videography, photography, and graphics and analog skills in painting, drawing, storymaking, and taking my imagination seriously. I am currently listening to Aziza Brahim, entertaining myself by reading Akata Witch series, and trying to learn how to align my spirit and values with my world through adrienne maree brown's books and podcasts.
Cindy J Lin
Cindy J Lin is the CEO and Co-Founder of HOVE Social Good Intelligence. We are a mission-to-action lifestyle company working to connect people to purchasing with purpose by building meaningful data stories to show our positive social and environmental impact. Our purpose is to enrich people's lives with well researched information and social good alternatives that inspire people to become a collective force for good. Cindy J achieved her childhood dream of working at the US Environmental Protection Agency. She spent 19 years at the US EPA engaged in international and national water protection projects, water quality standards development, polluted waters regulation, and sweeping environmental policy changes. This includes serving as the the US Regional Expert on the Clean Water Act, Applied Climate Change National Workgroup and as the Water Adviser at the US Embassy in Beijing, China. Dr. Lin is an avid ecologist, environmental scientist and engineer by training. She received her doctorate (D.ENV.) in Environmental Science and Engineering, M.S. in Environmental Chemistry, and B.S. in Biology, all from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Brianna Mahoney
Currently shifting my career from a background in Early Stage go to market strategies toward a more plant-focused environment. Inspired by the #GrowFoodNotLawns momentum I am working on building my gardening skills, obtaining my PDC and whatever else I can do to learn about the world of food and regenerative systems. I'd like to merge both fields of tech and growing food in a consumer-based learning application. Stay tuned...
Alexa Levy
Alexa Levy is an educator, public school teacher, community organizer, and artist. She has worked with youth as a facilitator of rich learning - from teaching Kindergarten in Public Schools in NYC to Kindergarten in the forest in California to a Permaculture and Restorative Justice program at a Middle School in Oakland - growing food, creating regenerative systems, and curating events around art and social justice. Alexa is a core member, organizer, and educator with the Permaculture Action Network, an organization that mobilizes thousands of people to take direct action on regenerative projects by collaborating with performing artists and cultural events. This work regenerates ecosystems and catalyzes movement for a just transition by partnering with a diversity of projects and groups forging pathways to collective liberation.
Patrick Pelegri-O’Day
I grew up in the SF Bay Area and studied Public Policy and Economics at Pomona College, graduating in 2015. I am a dual USA-Spain citizen through my dad. I have worked on environmental policy through the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. For the past two years I’ve worked as a sustainability and resilience planner in the Bay Area where I also mentor high schoolers taking leadership on sustainability. I feel increasingly drawn to the role of regenerative and cooperative enterprise in this Just Transition which is why I’m participating in the LIFT MBA program. I am inspired by the potential to heal relationships between the human and more-than-human world and to dismantle structures of oppression for a more just and connected culture.
Gustavo Alcantar
Gustavo Alcantar is a creative being and peaceful warrior, living life artfully outside of the box. He is an EcoDesigner (Graphic Design & Permaculture), splitting time between the San Francisco Bay Area and Mexico's Pacific coast (Nayarit). He graduated from Cal-Poly SLO design program, and besides operating a one-man design studio, he has also created a Hemp clothing brand (Swirlspace), an urban Sustainability non-profit (UAS), and is currently building an Eco-Art Bed & Breakfast in Mexico. This latest project ties together many of his skills, experiences and dreams to create a special experiential opportunity for ecologically-minded travelers and artists.
Hiroko Kurihara
Eco-preneur committed to tackling the 2nd most polluting industry in the world: textiles.
After running a high-end wool blanket company and a ‘sustainable’ sewn goods business incubator, technology and timing will launch InnoFabrix in 2020, a textiles re-manufacturing and fiber re-generation and innovation company. My experience with the non-profit, for-benefit, and government sectors has led me to only pursue a worker-owned B-Corp, tracking true costs and measuring deep impact. My community artivist work pushes for policies to preserve and grow Oakland’s authentic culture. Geographic journey: Germany, Japan, Los Angeles, NJ, RI, Austria and 31 years of rooting in Oakland.
Jesper Nørgaard Reumert
With an original background from forestry, I have been working with regional development for more than 15 years. My current dayjob is to support hospitals in transition towards eg. more preventive healthcare and building public-private cooperations for innovation. Spare time is spend on volunteer work and community boards within village and rural sustainable development. I have two kids aged 10 and 13 and live with them and their mother. I have for several years puzzled with various ideas for social ventures and spend (too little) time on developing these - all of them are related to either bio-based materials or place/community development.
Miki’ala Catalfano
Moving beyond cynicism towards connectedness, I am an artist and designer learning how to create a meaningful, engaged ecobusiness that fits the needs of the place where I live, with an eye on throwing a rope to other like-minded people who would also like to be free from the yoke of conventional workplace hierarchy.
Cesar Aguirre
Cesar Aguirre is a Partner at AERO Collective, a young Architecture office in the heart of Downtown Inglewood. After graduating from the USC Architecture school, he decided to stay in Los Angeles to participate in the city's energy and growth. His main design focus and passion is in designing housing. Having worked on Affordable, Market rate and student housing, has sparked on interest in trying to understand why we let the market dictate Housing construction.
Cynthia Ibarra
As a strong proponent of locally based and community led solutions, Cynthia supports programs at the intersection of environmental justice and community development. She centers equity, inclusion and diversity in all her work- leading outreach efforts, building partnership with local stakeholders, developing systems and streamlining processes, and fostering transformational change within organizational structures.
She currently works as the Clean Mobility Coordinator at GRID Alternatives, Bay Area with the mission to provide more equitable access to low-carbon and low-cost transportation options. A resident of South San Francisco, she lives with her partner and is a proud ‘tia’ (aunt) of four niblings.
Justin Hitchcock
Justin strives to align his values with his career. He started his career as a Peace Corps Volunteer, followed by 8 years in the nonprofit sector. He most recently served as the Executive Director for GRID Alternatives. In his spare time, he enjoys surfing, rock climbing, and playing bass. He enjoys traveling and is fluent in Spanish.
Renae A. Badruzzaman
I’m a public health practitioner passionate about systems change at the root of social and health inequities. My skills in analysis, collaboration, and adaptive learning led me to a decade of cross-sector work in academia, non-profit, health, community development, and finance sectors.
My intention is to support healing and wellness practices that acknowledge the cultural traumas experienced by BIPOC, people with disabilities, and other marginalized communities - and work to repair the wounds from legacies of violence and oppression.
I'm a compassion fatigue specialist and hold a Master of Public Health, National Leader Fellowships in Disabilities, and Bachelors in Psychology and Human Development. I cherish being active, doing yoga, reading, and spending time with my loved ones.
Rachel Isreeli
Rachel is a Brooklynite, cooperative developer and facilitator, and beginner food grower and herbalist. Rachel has been organizing for over a dozen years at the intersection of gender, labor and sexuality, including around sex work, gender-based violence, LGBTQ homelessness, and immigrant-led worker cooperatives. For over 5 years, Rachel has been been cultivating workplace democracy and anti-capitalist leadership at the Center for Family Life’s Cooperative Development Program, through direct work with coops and training community organizations to develop coops in their communities. Currently, Rachel is a consultant as well as a cooperative developer at RiseBoro Community Partnership, where they are organizing worker cooperatives as part of the Central Brooklyn Food Democracy Project, a black-led food sovereignty project. Rachel serves on the board of the NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives.
Luis Gonzalez Imbert
Bilingual English/Spanish professional with over 10 years of experience delivering smooth transitions, product launches, and systemic corporate change in complex business environments. Passionate about working with people—building relationships, fostering self-sufficiency, guiding the implementation process, and supporting teams to succeed and sustain changes.
Clément Morandière
Born in the west coast of France , I always feel connected to the sea, I spend lot of times in the Ocean witch I’m passionate about . This lead me in the watersports industry after managing fews stores. I moved to Bangkok to work with a B Corp certified Starboard, as international sales manager. I traveled the world to develop the brand and a new sport called Stand Up Paddle boarding. This was inspiration everyday, I reallocated to Europe in 2017 to redevelop the brand in Southern Europe. The purpose driven aspect was gone. In 2019 my father passed away and I decided to shift and create my own project with my girlfriend. This project is dedicated to him, our goal is to inspire people and help them to make a transition in a more eco friendly lifestyle. We use business as a force for good !