Author

Katie Sobering is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She can be reached at ksobering (at) gmail (dot) com.

Christopher Michael is completing a JD/PhD (Politics) at the City University of New York with a focus on cooperative financial structures, community economic development, and labor law. He is currently co-editing a companion volume to “Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present,” for which he wrote a chapter comparing unionized worker cooperatives in the U.S., Italy, Argentina, and Canada. Chris is also a founding director of NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives.

William Cerf received his Master of Arts in Business Communication (MABC) from Jones International University in November 2011 and began doctoral studies in January 2012 at Union Institute & University with a Concentration in Ethical and Creative Leadership and a Specialization in Martin Luther King, Jr. Studies. Additionally he is an active participant in the Poverty Scholars Program of the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and an advocate for empowerment of low-income people through involvement in Community Voices Heard (CVH). He is passionate about the development of worker-owned cooperatives and is a member of the NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYC NoWC).

Christopher Michael is a founder of the New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives and New York State Worker Cooperative Business Association, general counsel of the ICA Group, and a doctoral candidate in political science at City University of New York.

John W. Lawrence is a psychology professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. He is a member of the editorial collective of Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) Newsletter. There are many articles on worker cooperatives at the GEO website.

Mary Hoyer is a community and cooperative development consultant working out of Amherst, Massachusetts.  She co-chairs the UnionCo-ops Council of the U.S. Federation of Worker Co-ops and has worked with the Cooperative Fund of New England, the Cooperative Development Institute, the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy, Citizens Research Education Network, Asylum Hill Economic Development Committee, the Hartford Public Schools, and the Hartford Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO Local 1018 as a teacher, facilitator and consultant on organizational development, finance and fundraising, governance, anti-racism, public and community education, and union organizing.