Author

Jeffrey Howard is the founder and editor-in-chief of Erraticus and host of the Damn the Absolute! podcast. He is a former mental health professional and educator, whose research interests center around localism, American pragmatism, and bioregionalism. He currently lives in Southern Appalachia.

Stephanie Silva is a Master in City Planning candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. Her work focuses on the design and implementation of more equitable climate adaptation and housing plans.

Linda Shi is an assistant professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. Her research examines how land governance institutions shape the equity and justice of climate adaptation.

Zachary Lamb is an assistant professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on how urban design and planning shape uneven impacts from and adaptations to climate change.

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Leo Sammallahti is the Marketing Officer for Co-op Exchange. He is a platform cooperative enthusiast. He started the Wikipedia article about platform cooperatives and was a participant in the worlds first platform cooperative accelerator program UnFound, representing WeCo, an online discussion and link-sharing platform owned cooperatively by the users.

Emet Değirmenci is an author and activist.

Anja has worked with Local Futures since 1986 on many projects, including the International Alliance for Localization, the Economics of Happiness Conference Series and World Localization Day. Fluent in Spanish, English and Danish, she has been a spokesperson for localization on several continents. Anja divides her time between a Mexican ecovillage and a small island in the Danish Archipelago. She is a passionate food grower and is happiest with her hands in the soil. Anja holds a BSc in Rural Resource Management and a MPhil. in Agroforestry.

Denise Kasparian is an ICDE Fellow.

Rachel Gertz is CEO and Dig­i­tal PM Train­er at Loud­er Than Ten. She trains tech work­ers how to trans­form their com­pa­nies through demo­c­ra­t­ic digital project man­age­ment. Her mis­sion at Loud­er Than Ten is to give back pow­er to the peo­ple lead­ing their projects so they can trans­form the future of work. She can be reached at: hello@louderthanten.com.