Alan has a diverse professional background beginning with a career in city and tribal management and land use planning in Wyoming. After moving to Colorado his interest evolved into nonprofit fund development, including several years building Habitat for Humanity homes. He also served a term on the City of Boulder Planning Board and recently completed a stint on the Boulder Affordable Housing Working Group. After being laid off a job, he grew tired of working for marginally competent bosses, took some production classes at the local public access TV station, and now a filmmaker and author. He recently completed a novel entitled "Libby Flats" that has cohousing as the story backdrop. He has produced five documentaries about cohousing – having lived at Silver Sage Village for 12 years. He looks forward to helping move cohousing into the mainstream.

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Alicia DeLashmutt alicia@ourhomeicc.org alicia@ourhomecathedralpar.com Alicia has a professional background in landscape and commercial interior design as Director, Project Manager, and Senior Designer, and is the Founder and President of Our Home, Inclusive Community Collaborative, a non-profit whose mission is to promote, support and develop inclusive, diverse communities. She is currently working with her team to develop Our Home – Cathedral Park, a mutually supportive, inclusive community in the Cathedral Park neighborhood of Portland, OR. Alicia is a 2007 graduate of Oregon Partners in Policy Making, member of the Oregon Developmental Disabilities Coalition and 2017 graduate of the Oregon Health Sciences University LEND program. She currently acts as an advisor, mentor and presenter to LEND and the Oregon Pediatric Improvement Program. Alicia has served as the Program Coordinator for the Northwest Down Syndrome Association Kindergarten Inclusion Cohort, member and advisor to the Portland Public Schools Special Education PTA and continues to make numerous local and national presentations as a strong advocate for inclusive community, housing, education and life. Alicia is an active advocate and parent mentor who believes that the inclusion of ALL, regardless of race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability or gender identity is necessary for a vibrant and healthy community.

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Ann Zabaldo is both a pioneer volunteer and a paid professional in the cohousing movement. She specializes in outreach, education, marketing, and fueling the fires of burning souls. Ann is past-president of The Cohousing Association of the United States and is a co-founder and current board member of Mid Atlantic Cohousing, a regional non-profit organization. She is a certified facilitator for McCamant & Durrett’s Senior Cohousing Study Group workshops. She is co-executive producer of “Building Sustainable Communities for Today’s Housing Market" a DVD and companion handbook created specifically for developers who are interested in entering the cohousing market niche. Ann was on the development team for both Eastern Village Cohousing in Silver Spring, Maryland and Takoma Village Cohousing in Washington, DC where she lives with 65 adults, 15 children, seven dogs and waaaay too many cats. Currently, for Takoma Village she is serving on the Bylaws Working Group to revise the bylaws and the Resale and Rental pod (team or committee). This pod has brought in excellent buyers who are prepared to live in cohousing. Plus, more than $120,000 in donations to the community. Her description of living in cohousing? “It’s a rolling Mardi Gras!”

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Anne Geraghty's fascination with cohousing and interest in walkable communities led to the founding of Washington Commons in West Sacramento, California. She formerly advocated for pedestrian safety as founder and executive director of WALKSacramento; and for air quality in her work with the California Air Resources Board. Her urban planning degree is from the University of Pittsburgh

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Anne Reynolds has been a driving force in the Cooperative movement for almost 35 years, and was inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame in 2019. As they stated, she has been “a fixture of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Cooperatives—the U.S.’s premier cooperative research center—Anne has contributed significantly to scholarship on cooperatives. Her career has not only spanned co-op sectors, but bridged gaps: between academics and business leaders, between strategic thinking and practical application and across deep ideological and cultural divides.”

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After travelling ecovillages and regenerative projects for two years, I dedicate myself to energize the Ecovillage movement and to learn and propagate the tools that facilitate living together, collaboration and interconnection. Those tools include Non-Violent Communication, Sociocracy and the Ecovillage Regenerative Design Principles. I’m a working member at Sociocracy for All, where I contribute to spread and support the use of Sociocracy in Intentional Communities.

Brel (they/them) began their co-op journey in 2014 in Madison, Wisconsin as a member of Madison Community Cooperative, Madison Area Cooperative Housing Alliance, and the United People of Color Caucus. In their free time, Brel teaches at and serves on the board of the Madison Freewheel Bicycle Co. and is in the process of converting it to a worker-owned co-op. Brel sees cooperatives as one of the best ways to affect social change and actively fight gentrification and extractive economic practices. Brel strives to make sure that people of color in cooperatives are represented, supported, and respected by our co-ops. Brel believes in strategic, continual expansion of the co-op sector because we can change the world for the better with these things! Contact Brel for inquiries regarding starting or incorporating a co-op; construction, financing or expansion of your existing co-op; lobbying; comparative financial analysis; and co-op sector research; investment in the Kagawa Fund; and to nominate members to the NASCO Development Committee.

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Bruce joined Housing 21 as Chief Executive in 2013. Before that, Bruce was Chief Executive for Hanover Housing Group and had previously been Chief Executive of Wolverhampton Homes and Deputy Chief Executive of Anchor Trust. Bruce’s early career was as an in-house lawyer and he is a qualified solicitor, but he has spent more than 20 years leading change and seeking to improve the provision of housing and care for older people. Bruce has served and continues to serve as a board member for a number of housing organisations, charities and a local authority owned care company. He completed a PhD considering the differences in attitudes and expectation of the governance role of boards of housing associations in 2017 and then undertook a further PhD on the priorities and preferences of residents of Retirement and Extra Care Housing that he completed in early 2021.

Bryan Bowen is an architect, cohousing nerd, and lover of community-based sustainable design. Bryan grew up in a passive solar home in an artists’ community at the foothills of the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA with minors in sculpture and anthropology in 1995, and has been a practicing architect for about 25 years. He and his wife raised their two boys in Wild Sage Cohousing. Bryan founded Caddis Collaborative in 2002. Caddis is a multidisciplinary design collaborative that explores ways of living more lightly upon our earth in beautiful, healthy environments. A leader in sustainable design, Passive House, net-zero homes, urban infill, and livable communities, Caddis applies sophisticated design and creative solutions to every project. Caddis has become a well-respected national cohousing expert, creating beautiful, innovative, highly functioning communities. Clients comment on Bryan's ability to distill the chaos of development and construction in a logical and insightful way, creating a bubble of calm around their process.

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I work as a community organizer at BÆREBO, which is one of the commercial developers in Denmark, building up new sustainable communities. Inspired by the ecovillage movement, but mainstreaming ecovillage concepts to become more attractive to a larger crowd. Even commercial, we are still including future residents in many decisions and in the profiling of each community project. We build projects of like 40 houses per project. Privately, I have been serving in the council of GEN Europe, the board of GEN and now in the Network Steward Circle. I am also the chairperson of bofællesskab.dk, the community organisation in Denmark, and a board member of the Danisha ssociation of Ecovillages. Initiator to the Startpackage project we are currently creating and member of a 6 person working group under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which have identified barriers and have come up with selected recommendations for policy reforms, enabling more co-hosing projects to become realized. Quite familiar with the field.

Charles Durrett, with Kathryn McCamant, introduced the concept of cohousing to the United States with the seminal book Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves. The latest edition is Creating Cohousing, Building Sustainable Communities. He has written several other books on cohousing, including Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living—The Handbook, The Senior Cohousing Primer: Recent Examples and New Projects, Happily Ever Aftering in Cohousing: A Handbook for Community Living, and State-Of-The-Art Cohousing: Lessons Learned from Quimper Village. Durrett and his team at The Cohousing Company have designed more than 50 cohousing communities in the United States and around the world, including Muir Commons in Davis, California, the first cohousing community in North America. His work has been featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Architecture, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and many other publications. Charles Durrett has received numerous awards, which include the World Habitat Award presented by the United Nations, the Silver Achievement Award for Active Adult Community by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) 50+ Housing Council, the Silver Energy Value Housing Award by NAHB, the Mixed Use/Mixed Income Development Award presented jointly by the American Institute of Architects and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and a recipient of the Global Over 50’s Housing/Healthcare award. He was also recently declared as a “visionary of the Sierras” by the Sierra Business Council, and the International Property Awards. Durrett regularly gives presentations on cohousing to interested citizen groups. He has spoken before the United States Congress twice, has been featured on the Commonwealth Club, and has lectured at scores of universities. He lives in Nevada City, California, where he primarily today consults on model

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Charles Durrett, with Kathryn McCamant, introduced the concept of cohousing to the United States with the seminal book Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves. The latest edition is Creating Cohousing, Building Sustainable Communities. He has written several other books on cohousing, including Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living—The Handbook, The Senior Cohousing Primer: Recent Examples and New Projects, Happily Ever Aftering in Cohousing: A Handbook for Community Living, and State-Of-The-Art Cohousing: Lessons Learned from Quimper Village. Durrett and his team at The Cohousing Company have designed more than 50 cohousing communities in the United States and around the world, including Muir Commons in Davis, California, the first cohousing community in North America. His work has been featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Architecture, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and many other publications. Charles Durrett has received numerous awards, which include the World Habitat Award presented by the United Nations, the Silver Achievement Award for Active Adult Community by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) 50+ Housing Council, the Silver Energy Value Housing Award by NAHB, the Mixed Use/Mixed Income Development Award presented jointly by the American Institute of Architects and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and a recipient of the Global Over 50’s Housing/Healthcare award. He was also recently declared as a “visionary of the Sierras” by the Sierra Business Council, and the International Property Awards. Durrett regularly gives presentations on cohousing to interested citizen groups. He has spoken before the United States Congress twice, has been featured on the Commonwealth Club, and has lectured at scores of universities. He lives in Nevada City, California, where he primarily today consults on model

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I’m an Italian Social Planner, Co-Founder of Casematte Non Profit Organization based in Turin, Italy (www.casematte.it). I taught Art History and worked as an Architect for fifteen years, then worked mainly in the field of local and community development since 2005, promoting processes of participation and sharing within the Casematte and CoAbitare (www.coabitare.org) Non Profit Organizations and the Italian cohousing and collaborative living network. I currently collaborate with Homers - a company that promotes cohousing and housing communities throughout Italy. Since 2020 I live in a cohousing near Turin .

Crystal Byrd Farmer is an engineer turned educator from Gastonia, North Carolina. She is an organizer and speaker in the intentional communities movement. She serves as a board member with the Foundation for Intentional Communities and is on the Editorial Review Board of Communities Magazine published by the Global Ecovillage Network-United States. She also serves as an organizer for the BIPOC Intentional Community Council. Her book The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization is out now. Crystal is passionate about encouraging people to change their perspectives on diversity, relationships, and the world.

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Cynthia is the “community matchmaker” helping people join the hundreds of intentional communities she has visited and worked with around the globe. She is a speaker, educator, and co-director of the Foundation for Intentional Community (ic.org). Her mission is to strengthen the bridge between sustainable communities and mainstream society. After a decade of travel, Cynthia now lives at an ecovillage in Vermont where she’s building a passive solar home, tending a garden, and guiding yoga classes. She has a B.A. in Sustainability from Goddard College, as well as certifications in Ecovillage and Permaculture design. Learn more and book a community matchmaking session with Cynthia at www.cynthiatina.com.

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Danny Milman has spent the past 25 years building a wide range of projects including cohousing communities. She has worked for general contractors as a superintendent and project manager and has guided many clients through the development process as an owner’s representative and construction manager. In her current role as a Development Manager with Urban Development Partners, she is working with Washington Commons Cohousing and Berkeley Moshav Cohousing. Danny is also a member of Katie McCamant's 500 Communities Program, Urban Land Institute and a Nevada County CA Planning Commissioner.

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David Entin had careers in the fields of anti-poverty work and higher education administration. He has master's degrees in American history and public administration and a Ph.D. in sociology. He developed and wrote the first rural anti-poverty program in the nation under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. His last position was as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Holyoke Community College. He retired in 2007. He was a founding member and active participant in Rocky Hill Cohousing, Northampton, MA (serving as chair of Finance Committee, President of Board of Trustees, member of Community Life Committee, etc.). He served for four years on the board of the Cohousing Association of the United States.

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Diana Leafe Christian is author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities, and Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community. She speaks at ecovillage and cohousing conferences, offers consultations, and leads workshops and online internationally. With the ability to make things simple and clear, and drawing on a deep and broad understanding of community dynamics, Diana encourages effective and harmonious ways for groups to become healthy and thriving, and to resolve the typical interpersonal challenges that can arise in any community. She teaches online courses and workshops, “Sociocracy for Intentional Communities” (sociocracy is an especially effective self-governance and decision-making method), “Helping Your Community Thrive,” and “Starting a Successful Ecovillage or Intentional Community.” She has taught workshops and spoken at conferences in North and South America, Europe, and Japan. An Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) trainer for Gaia Education, and editor of Communities magazine for 14 years, Diana has contributed chapters to three Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) and Gaia Education books: Beyond You and Me, Gaian Economics, and Ecovillage: 1001 Ways to Heal the Planet. She is a Board Member of GEN-US. In 2017 she received the Fellowship for Intentional community’s Kozeny Communitarian Award, a lifetime achievement award for contributions to the US communities movement. Diana lives at Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina, U.S. http://www.DianaLeafeChristian.org

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Diane Craig is a research/data analyst at the University of Florida and, thanks to her awesome community, lives in what she hopes is her "forever home." She was actively involved in the development of Gainesville Cohousing in Gainesville, FL between 2013 and when she moved in March 2018. Diane served on the building committee and, as Gainesville Cohousing has since transitioned to a fully formed community, is currently serving on the communications/technology and finance committees. More recently Diane participated in the development of the community's first workshare policy and serves as one of three coordinators.

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Diane Margolis'most recent book, We Built A Village: Cohousing and the Commons will be launched at the Cohousing meeting in Madison. Diane is a founding member of Cambridge Cohousing where she has lived for more than twenty years. She is a former member of the Coho/US Board of Directors and co-founder and Director Emeritus of the Cohousing Research Network. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 1980–1981. She has published many research articles, and her books include The Fabric of Self, which won Honorable Mention at the First Annual Book Award of the Eastern Sociological Society. She is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut.

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Dorit Fromm is a design researcher and writer, an architect, and has worked in communications for the design industry. Her recent book, Cluster Cohousing Revisited, co-authored with social housing researcher Els de Jong, looks at the first Dutch cohousing project from a 40-year perspective. An earlier book, Collaborative Communities, describes the wide variety of European and American models of collaborative living. She has also written a number of articles on the intersection of community and design for publications such as Places, Architectural Review, Metropolis, Journal of Architecture and Planning Research, Built Environment, Urban Land, ArcCa, and Communities.

Pati Beaudoin has lived and worked in Canada, The US and Nicaragua in various forms of community. At present she is a member of Kawartha Commons Cohousing, a forming group in Peterborough, Ontario, about 90 minutes northeast of Toronto.

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Dyan is a founding member and longtime resident of Pioneer Valley Cohousing in western Massachusetts. She has advised other cohousing communities and provided training in facilitation, decision making, group process, and policy development. She has led public presentations on cohousing and facilitated introductory workshops on senior cohousing for interested individuals. She is on the board of SAGE Senior Cohousing Advocates and has led the Study Group 1 curriculum on aging successfully in community. She's currently doing freelance grant writing after retiring from her job as associate director of foundation relations at Mount Holyoke College. Her career has spanned several other fields including marketing and communications, community outreach, arts programming, and nonprofit organizational development training and consulting. She loves hiking, kayaking, and exploring new places and will be traveling to Madison with her husband in their newly converted camper van.

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Final year masters architecture student at the University of Sheffield.

Erik is a registered architect with deep expertise in sustainability and participatory design. His experience includes facilitating integrated design of groundbreaking LEED and net zero carbon projects, while at Rocky Mountain Institute. His work focuses on integrating the economic, environmental, and social components of sustainability with a focus on equity and empowerment. Erik taught sustainability from an interdisciplinary perspective at Montana State University and has published research on cost optimization of energy efficiency. He has worked to design and also found cohousing communities across the United States. Erik is passionate about collaborating with cohousing communities and helping them turn their aspirations into reality.

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Eugenie is the CEO of Co-operation Housing, a registered community housing provider specialising in the co-operative model. Her work with Co-operation Housing builds on her knowledge and experience as a sustainability educator, developer and consultant. Eugenie’s work has a strong focus on community living. She successfully completed two small, and now multi-award-winning developments, in the Town of Victoria Park. She worked closely with Co-operation Housing on the development of new housing co-operatives prior to being appointed in the CEO role. Eugenie’s qualifications include a Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainability and Advanced Diploma in Accounting. She brings experience in property development and the social and affordable housing sector and is an affiliate of an international network of cohousing professionals. She has previously served on not for profit boards and has completed relevant training facilitated by the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Eugenie is a 500 Communities affiliate and collaborates with Katie McCamant from Cohousing Solutions.

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Born and raised for my first 8 impressionable years in British Guyana, then moved to Portland, Oregon, USA. Spent several summers as a pre-teen and teen in Germany where the idea of an ecovillage took shape in this impressionable young girl. First witnessing the care and respect given to the elderly in their Rudolf Steiner retirement center with bio-dynamic gardens, architecture mimicing nature, cultural events, and great fresh mountain air, to the life of children in a Kinderdorf by the Boden See in Tirol where foster kids, and parents natural kids, formed a family of 10 along with 10 other families. They had their own organic gardens, a school, and a community kitchen, and most importantly, the support of each other. From that experience, I vowed to help 10 people, who help 10 people, who help 10 people each and impact the lives of 1001 people! I have been struggling for years to start my own community on 120 acres near Portland, OR - making all sorts of mistakes I am an expert at and more than willing to share!

Frances Wright is Head of Community Partnering with developer TOWN. Frances will be presenting Marmalade Lane, a 42-home multi-generational cohousing community in Cambridge, UK, for which TOWN was the enabling developer for the Cambridge Cohousing. Frances lives in Marmalade Lane and is a director of UK Cohousing Network.

Hello everyone- Hola a todes! My name is Gery, I was born in Bolivia to families of mixed ethnicities and races: Indigenous Aymara and Quechua with Spanish on my dad’s side; and Indigenous Guarani with Spanish on my mom’s side. My personal journey of learning and healing the impact of social privilege and oppression started as a child thanks to the love and honest guidance of my Tio Antonio, he dedicated his life to speak to the wound of colonization and assimilation within our family and country. My maternal grandmother, mi abuelita Yolanda, migrated to the United States as a young widow leaving my mother and her sister as children back home. My maternal family since then had a relationship with both Bolivia and the United States as home and family. My professional practice as a racial justice and restorative justice healing centered educator started in 2004 in Bolivia, in my path I have co-founded a non-profit organization as well as co-authored multiple programs, curricula and initiatives in collaboration with organizations in multiple countries. I have lived in Madison since 2012 with the exception of two years that I left to work in capacity building and curricula design with an international organization in Costa Rica. I have been part of YWCA Madison also since 2012, specifically with our then Racial Justice department and now Race and Gender Equity department. I understand myself as a human being in co-liberation through deep learning, unlearning, healing and transformation. I am passionate about co-creating holistic practices, experiences and processes for transformative change that center racial justice, equity and belonging because I believe it is possible to heal, reclaim and empower our intrinsic interconnected nature as people as well as with all beings.

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I have lived in cohousing for 10 years at Trillium Hollow in Portland, OR. and before that I lived in spiritual communities for 4 years. I have recently joined a forming community in the greater Seattle area, Sunnyside Village Cohousing and was asked by the founding members to speak on April 16th at the I Love Cohousing virtual conference on the What is Cohousing. Professionally I have been a hospice nurse for 20 years.

Grace H. Kim is an architect and co-founding principal of Schemata Workshop, an award-winning architectural practice with a keen focus on building community and social equity. She brings innovative ideas to her projects that merge client goals and sustainability measures – such as urban agriculture, modular construction, and a focus on building community. Grace is also the cofounder of Capitol Hill Urban Cohousing, a collaborative residential community which includes her street level office and a rooftop urban farm. She walks the talk of sustainability - leaving a small ecological footprint while incorporating holistic ideals of social and economic resilience into her daily life. Her TED Talk on cohousing as an antidote for loneliness has been received more than 2 million views. Grace is an internationally recognized expert in cohousing, particularly for her expertise in designing the Common House. Grace and her firm Schemata Workshop has provided architectural services to Daybreak Cohousing, Siskyou Cohousing, Capitol Hill Urban Cohousing, Dragonfly Cohousing, Upper Langley Cohousing, Mary’s River Cohousing, Skagit Commons, Adams Creek Cohousing, and Sunnyside Village. Grace has visited more than 90 cohousing communities in North America, Denmark and South Korea. For four years Grace served on the national board for the Cohousing Association of the US and she currently serves on the Professional Advisory Council. She was the Chair of the 2009 National Cohousing Conference and International Cohousing Summit in Seattle, and the Co-Chair of the 2019 National Cohousing Conference in Portland.

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Greg Rosenberg is the principal of Rosenberg and Associates, with a consulting practice in the areas of affordable and sustainable housing development, strategic planning, cohousing, urban agriculture – and all things relating to community land trusts. He also serves as the coordinator of the Center for Community Land Trust Innovation, whose mission is to support the work of CLTs through documenting the history of the movement, conducting and supporting research, as well as providing assistance to innovative efforts around the world.

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Greg Rosenberg is the principal of Rosenberg and Associates, with a consulting practice in the areas of – Affordable and sustainable housing development, – Cohousing, – Community land trusts, – Organization assessment and strategic planning, – Urban agriculture, – Web development and distance learning. Greg Rosenberg is the principal of Rosenberg and Associates, with a consulting practice in the areas of affordable and sustainable housing development, strategic planning, cohousing, urban agriculture – and all things relating to community land trusts. He also serves as the coordinator of the Center for Community Land Trust Innovation, whose mission is to support the work of CLTs through documenting the history of the movement, conducting and supporting research, as well as providing assistance to innovative efforts around the world. Greg has developed curriculum and taught workshops on community land trusts, sustainable development, fair housing, property taxation, universal design, and urban agriculture. Greg is licensed to practice law in the state of Wisconsin, is a licensed Advanced Practice Social Worker, and is a LEED Accredited Professional. Greg is fluent in WordPress development, Zoom meetings and webinars, as well as Google Workspace and Microsoft Office, with additional familiarity with ArcGIS Online, Airtable, QuickBooks Online, Mailchimp, and Vimeo.

Harry Randhawa is a Director at Triangle Architects, who joined the practice as an Architectural Assistant. Harry has experience in working with a number of different clients and client groups including local authorities, housing trusts and registered providers, health agencies and trusts, housing developers, design & build contractors and tenant groups. He has been involved in all aspects of projects from inception to completion and has run a range of contracts on site, from small scale housing developments to large multi-million pound regeneration schemes, Extra Care Developments and Older Person housing. Harry is currently working with Housing21 on the design and development of numerous Cohousing schemes with the first being submitted for planning shortly.

Heidi Berggren is currently on the CohoUS Board, and she belongs to the Cohousing Research Network. She is a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Her research and teaching interests include the cohousing movement, social welfare policy, work-family policy, gender and politics, and political behavior. Recent publications include "Is Cohousing Good for Democracy? Comparing political participation among residents of cohousing communities and traditional condominium developments" (Housing and Society), “The Cohousing Research Network: A Community Approach to Communities Research,” (Communities, coauthored), and “Cohousing as Civic Society: Cohousing Involvement and Political Participation” (Social Science Quarterly). Her research has also been published in other journals such as the Journal of Political Science Education, Political Research Quarterly, International Journal of Social Welfare, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, and Review of Policy Research. Heidi is currently researching cohousing as a potential source of broader social improvement and civic renewal. She and other members of CRN are setting up a longitudinal panel study of residents of cohousing communities and of forming communities throughout the United States. The goal is to discover the determinants of successful and accessible cohousing communities, and ultimately to contribute to the project of cohousing as a beneficial and durable housing option for wider publics.

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Elliott comes from a bi-cultural, biracial background. His diverse background led to a diverse life! He began a teaching career on the Navajo reservation in special education and directed a school district transition program serving students with disabilities for 8 years in Fort Collins, CO. He was taught by his students with disability labels that they needed community--but he couldn’t facilitate that because he didn’t have a sense of it for himself! So he moved into Greyrock cohousing in Fort Collins for the next 15 years. He traveled to India several times and visited Gandhian ahsrams. In 2010, he moved to a multiracial community in Denver called Mayfair Village. He taught social justice classes at Naropa University and worked as a school principal both at a predominantly Latino elementary school, and at a progressive, experiential middle school. He went on to direct the Human Rights Office for the City of Fort Collins and founded his current nonprofit, The Sum, in 2006 (www.thesum.org). After James Fields drove his car into a crowd in Charlottesville VA, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 40 others, Elliott bought a camper and moved to Charlottesville. Here, he started The Sum Study Center to support people's internal learning and related to our socio-cultural differences. Elliott partnered with the Heather Heyer Foundation to create a youth program called Heyer Voices. He is currently working to develop a cross-racial intentional community called Araminta Village (www.aramintavillage.org). Elliott established a faith community and faith community model based on the "sacredness of welcome to all" called The Welcome Circle (www.thewelcomecircle.org). In collaboration with Dr. Carla Sherrell, he developed the Power of Difference Model, Assessment, Video Project, and Certification online.

Dr. Jane Nichols is an Associate Professor and Chair of Interior Design at High Point University. She has graduate degrees in Facilities Planning & Design, Gerontology and Sustainability Education, and is a Certified by the National Charette Institute, making her uniquely suited for consulting on senior housing and cohousing community planning and design. She has taught environmental design for over twenty years, including at High Point University, Western Carolina University, Arizona State University, and the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. She has extensively practiced at Taliesin Architects and other prestigious architecture and design firms in North America. Her passion for healthy senior communities drives her research in sustainable environmental design for seniors, and she is currently pursuing accreditation in the WELL Building Standard. Dr. Nichols is a member of the Cohousing Research Network and is an award winning interior designer. She has published several articles, white papers and dissertations.

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Janet is a founding member of Arboretum Cohousing in Madison WI, and has served as chair of its board, finance committee and property committee. Janet organizes blood drives, variety shows, concerts and bike sharing at Arbco. For many years Janet had shared her car with a few cohousing neighbors. In 2021 she established a community wide car sharing program that everyone could participate in. "CoCar" at Arbco currently has nine drivers and one car. In late 2021 Janet helped organize three cohousing groups that were interested in car sharing. Six months later that group has 48 members from 30 cohousings in three countries. It meets monthly to share ideas. Janet has also appeared on the CoHousingHouston Podcast discussing the benefits and challenges of car sharing.

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Jennie Lindberg is a founding member of Sunnyside Village Cohousing, a forming community. She grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and after having lived in several other states returned. She and her husband currently live in Everett, Washington until their cohousing community, 7 miles away in Marysville, has been completed. She and her husband share a passion for their vegetable garden and growing their own food.

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Jerry Koch-Gonzalez has worked for equality and equity all his adult life - as an activist, an organizer, a trainer, a consultant, and a member of nonprofit Boards. In recent years his main concern has been supporting effective egalitarian governance as an alternative to win-lose majority voting and too vague consensus practices. Jerry has been a certified sociocracy consultant since 2012. With Ted Rau, he co-founded Sociocracy for All (SoFA), a member-run nonprofit, in 2016 and published the book Many Voices One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy in 2018. Jerry is also a certified Nonviolent Communication (NVC) trainer. Jerry is a founding resident of the 27-year old Pioneer Valley Cohousing Community in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA and enjoys swimming in the pond next door.

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When Jes moved into cohousing in 2012 she was an artist, a teacher, a color consultant, a mom, a wife and a homeschooling parent. She built community wherever she went. Cohousing was a perfect fit and she and her family settled in quickly to East Lake Commons outside Atlanta. Soon Jes was serving on several committees, including the board, painting rooms in the common house, helping to homeschool various children in the community and generally enjoying everything community life has to offer. In 2014 her life changed. Jes began to experience illness and over time made the challenging discovery that no amount of self-determination or will power was going to fix it. Jes and her family became dependent on their neighbors in ways she had never imagined. Friends took her son on vacations she could no longer manage. Neighbors dropped by to make meals or wash dishes. She built a list of community members she could call on a moment’s notice if she had a need when her family was away. Although she remains unable to do many of the things she has loved and needed to do in the past, recently she’s experienced improvement in her health. She’s delighted to be able to participate more in her many communities, particularly as zoom has made it feasible to participate from her bed. Much of her effort these days goes toward advocacy for research for the illness that has robbed her and millions of others of the life they once lived. Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is both underfunded and frequently misunderstood in mainstream medicine. ME Action (https://www.meaction.net/) is one place Jes connects with others to try to make a difference.

Jim is co-founder of Bristol Village Cohousing. He also co-founded and served as Co-Director of Common Ground Center, a Vermont retreat and family center now in its 28th year. Before moving to Vermont, Jim edited a community newspaper in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He loves to photograph people and continues to cover many political events as a member of Extinction Rebellion and 350VT. Jim currently works in a cooperative governance circle to introduce sociocracy to Bristol Cohousing. Currently, he serves on the CoHoUS Board of Directors and leads the Marketing Committee.

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Joann Lutz, MSW, LICSW, E-RYT, lives at Rocky Hill Chousing in Florence, Ma and is the developer of “Nervous-System Informed, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga" (NITYA), has been training mental health professionals internationally for 10 years, as well as offering a certification program in this approach. She is the author of the book, Trauma Healing in the Yoga Zone, (Handspring, 2021); a research paper, Classical Yoga Postures as Psychotherapeutic Interventions for Autonomic Nervous System Regulation, published by Cambridge Scholars Press, and a CE Course, Bringing Yoga into Social Work Practice, by NASW Ma. (2021). She was the New England Coordinator for the Spiritual Emergence Network, and created and taught the first East Coast-USA continuing education course on "Spirituality and Social Work" for social workers and other mental health professionals. She completed Level One of the Somatic Experiencing training and the 40-hour training in Trauma-Sensitive Yoga at The Trauma Center in Brookline, Ma. She is certified in Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy through the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers; in EMDR and Psychosynthesis, and is a Certified Integral Yoga teacher.

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Karen is a relationship and process consultant for communities, organizations and teams and co-author of The Cooperative Culture Handbook. She lives in Anacortes WA and connects with clients on Zoom and, when conditions allow, by traveling to clients. Her focus is on relationships and the skills needed to build strong connections.

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School of hard knocks. Cohousing development experience. Life long Wisconsin resident except for living in a commune in New Mexico for 9 months in the 70's.

Karin Hoskin moved into Wild Sage Cohousing Community in Boulder, CO at it's early existence in 2001. She and her husband have raised two children in community and continue to appreciate what a fantastic experience that was, both as parents, and for their 'kids'. Participating on nearly all the community teams, she truly found her groove when serving on the Community Living Team. For Karin, community is much more than a collection of houses, it is a fulfilling way to live daily life. Karin served 4 1/2 years as Executive Director for the Cohousing Association on the US and now is the Business Manager for Caddis Collaborative, an architecture, urban design, and planning firm working to create livable communities.

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Katie leads CoHousing Solutions. She brings the depth and diversity of her experience as an architect, developer, and cohousing resident to her clients. She lived in Doyle Street Cohousing in Emeryville, CA, for 12 years, and now lives in Nevada City Cohousing in the Sierra Foothills. Both communities she founded. ​ “What drives me is the desire to develop neighborhood models where we can live a better ‘good life’ while reducing our impact on the earth’s limited resources. Americans currently uses 24% of the worlds’ energy while we make up only 5% of world population. If we are to ‘save the world,’ we must strive for more sustainable market-driven models that are attractive to the American middle class.” Katie is a licensed architect and coauthor of the authoritative book on cohousing, Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves, which introduced this housing model to North America. Katie co-founded McCamant & Durrett Architects / The CoHousing Company with Charles Durrett, in 1987, and partnered with developer, Jim Leach, on numerous projects. Since then, Katie has designed and developed dozens of cohousing communities in the United States and Canada. In addition to pioneering cohousing in North America, Katie has designed a variety of other building types, including numerous affordable housing communities and a sustainably designed (LEED certified) Unitarian Church. For the past decade, Katie has focused on the development side of cohousing projects. She has worked on all aspects of developing cohousing from project kick-off to move-in. Her expertise includes setting up project budgets, structure financing, and facilitating planning approvals, finding construction financing, contractor selection, construction management, marketing efforts, and community policy creation. She also works with groups to find appropriate development partners, and then assists in structuring those partnerships. https://www.cohousing-solutions.com/our-team

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Kathy was a forming member and has lived at Quayside Village Cohousing in North Vancouver Canada for 23 years. Kathy worked as a consultant with Cohousing Development Consulting from 2015-2021 on Driftwood Village and Little Mountain Cohousing projects. Kathy has attended Facilitation Training programs with Tree Bressen and Laird Schaub and has worked as a facilitator with many cohousing communities. She is a board member of the Canadian Cohousing Network.

I am developing and building a co-housing pocket neighborhood in Columbia, Mo. Several years ago I joined and attended the co-housing conference in Boulder that occurred immediately after the conference of World Affairs at the U of C. At the world conference I discussed my idea for a co-housing project in Columbia, Mo. ( a college town of 125,000) with Russ Chapin and Jim Leach and received enough encouragement and confidence to move forward. It took 2 years to get through the engineering, zoning, city and neighbors’ education and approval but the effort has paid off with a wonderful co-housing community for 10 families. Our community includes an existing duplex that was remodeled, with one side serving as the community center and the other side rented out. The rent is revenue for the community to be used for any associated maintenance costs. This community was developed on 1 ½ acres that was undeveloped (except for an abandoned house that had to be demolished) within our inner city of Columbia. My project illustrates that co-housing can be developed in unique locations -this community is within ½ mile of a grocery store, recreation center and a mile from the city library. The privately owned homes are solar powered and built as sustainable as possible for our region. From my understanding of the co-housing community development process, it usually begins with a group of like-minded people who find land/location to co-habitate. I initiated this community by myself, then started searching for families who would like to live in a co-housing situation. Of ten homes that will comprise this project, six have already been sold. If you think participants at your August conference would be interested in learning about my project and how it can be used as a model for others, I would like to share this development process and the successes as well as the pitfalls that I encountered with the Co-Housing Association.

An architect with 20 years of experience, Kim is a skilled manager of complex projects. Over the course of her career, Kim has developed extensive experience in the design and construction of buildings for underserved populations. She strongly believes that by focusing the design on those most impacted by the decisions made, inclusive, supportive, community based environments can come to fruition. Kim currently serves as Project Manager for the Our Home Cathedral Park Cohousing project in Portland Oregon, as well as Washington Commons is West Sacramento.

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Kristen has assembled 18 years of professional experience in residential buildings at all cost levels, including single-family, multi-family, and cohousing. While at Caddis, she has broadened her experience to include deep energy-retrofits, eco-tenant finishes, and community master planning. She is well-trained in the art of bringing quality design work into clear and accurate construction documents, and is a skilled communicator in working with clients and coordinating consultants and trades. She is dedicated to ecological building and has been actively integrating new green building practices into her repertoire since moving to Colorado fifteen years ago. Kristen is now a Principal Architect with Caddis, a Registered Architect licensed multiple states, a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional and a Certified Passive House Consultant.

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Laird lived four decades at Sandhill Farm, an income-sharing rural community that he helped found in 1974. He served as the main administrator of the Foundation for Intentional Community for 28 years (1987-2015). Since 1987 he has also been a consultant on cooperative group dynamics and a facilitation trainer, working with more than 80 cohousing groups across North America. His specialty is up-tempo inclusive meetings that engage the full range of human input, teaching groups to work creatively with conflict and diversity—all the while being ruthless about finding inclusive solutions to knotty problems.

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Laurie Frank is a former school teacher who has worked in the adventure and experiential education arenas for over 40 years. She was a leader in designing the nationally recognized Stress/Challenge adventure program for Madison (Wisconsin) Metropolitan School District and wrote their curriculum, “Adventure in the Classroom,” in 1988. Ms. Frank wrote Journey Toward the Caring Classroom, an experiential approach to creating a sense of community in schools. She has also collaborated on four other books and numerous experiential curricula. Laurie’s passion is to facilitate human interaction and to create environments where everyone is empowered. Although mostly retired, she continues her work with experiential education through workshops and curriculum development. In addition to the CohoUS Board, she serves on the board of the United World College in Costa Rica. Laurie is a founding member of Linden Cohousing in Madison, WI. It has been in existence for almost two years, and she is looking forward to the tipping point where the community exists longer than the five years it took to create.

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I am a 6th year Masters of Architecture student at The University of Sheffield, UK, and I previously studied at The University of Liverpool. I've worked as an Architectural Assistant in various architectural practices for over 3.5 years between my studies, with work ranging from small scale, residential extensions to large, educational masterplans across the globe.

Leila has been involved in cohousing at Monterey Cohousing Community since 2017. Her background is in Information Technology, where she has worked with many different collaboration tools.

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Leslie Shieh is the co-founder of Tomo Spaces, a Vancouver-based real estate development firm. Tomo stands for Together More; as developers, operators, and researchers, the Tomo team believes in the power of place to enable people to do amazing things together. Together with Our Urban Village Cohousing Community, Tomo is developing a 12-unit cohousing project designed for sociability. Leslie holds a Master's in City Planning from UC Berkeley, and completed a PhD in Urban Planning from University of British Columbia. In her work she brings together research, theory, and practice. She previously served on Vancouver City Planning Commission and Vancouver Urban Design Panel.

Consultant and researcher into self-organised low-impact housing Learning from co-housing pioneers (PhD 2017): https://books.bk.tudelft.nl/press/catalog/book/isbn.9789492516848 Book review: Emanuele Giorgi ‘the co housing phenomenon’ (Springer 2020) Journal of Housing and the Built Environment (2021) 36:863–865 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-021-09826-z Palmer, J and Tummers, L. (eds): Built Environment (2019) V45#3 This issue brings together contributions from across the globe to provide insight into current collaborative housing initiatives. https://www.alexandrinepress.co.uk/built-environment/collaborative-housing-resident-and-professional-roles with S. MacGregor (2019). Beyond wishful thinking: a FPE perspective on commoning, care, and the promise of co-housing. International Journal of the Commons, 13(1), 62–83. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.918

Lotus inspires people to be the change they want to see. She brings a grounded passion, compassionate honesty and evolutionary vision built upon 20+ years of practice. Lotus is a mompreneur who has spearheaded intentional communities and other cocreative offerings in California, Colorado and Hawaii. She was named an “Ambassador for Change” by Bioneers and Lucidity Festival based on her work with individuals and groups across the US. Her graduate studies and professional trainings reinforce her innate gifts empowering holistic change for clients of all ages and backgrounds. Learn more about Lotus’s coaching at www.deepcompass.com and her consulting work at www.socialcapitalsolutions.com

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Lynn is passionate about organizing communities and using all the latest technologies to make this happen. She’s lived in 6 different countries and visited another 40-or-so across all the continents, except Antarctica. She spent her career in the Information Technology (IT) field and although she’s officially retired from big corporate work, she keeps finding outlets for that experience. Most recently she has taken a deep dive into the world of cohousing, consensus decision-making and podcasting. She’s been very active in setting up the back-office organization for CoHousing Houston and also participating on the front edge of their marketing efforts. She can’t wait to live in cohousing, so she can have ready access to pick-up games of Scrabble, Boggle and someone to fix her knitting errors.

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Markus Zilker architect and founding partner of einszueins architektur * civil engineer for architecture * co-founder of the „Wohnprojekt Wien“ association and co-housing project * taught design courses for master builders for more than 10 years * involved in projects of the Austrian initiative for co-housing since 2010 * since 2006 together with Katharina Bayer managing director of einszueins architektur * completed the master builder examination and advanced training in mediation and community building * gained professional experience in different offices in Vienna, during a stay abroad in PUC Campinas Brazil * studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and ETSA Seville, Spain

Martie Weatherly has been a personal and life coach for over 20 years, where she specializes in health, well-being, vitality and community. Her passion now is Creative Consensus, helping communities go from struggling with decision making to practicing robust consensus. Martie became a partner in Liberty Village in 1995 and participated in the planning and building of the community. She has studied consensus and facilitation since then and has taught many groups over the last 20 years. She is the lead facilitator in her community and on the Board of Directors. Since she retired from her nursing career, she has focused on consensus and how the energy of conflict can be used to create solutions that work for the whole community.

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Mary K. Gove PhD. co-author of best selling textbook, Reading and Learning to Read, has spearheaded several grants to work with teachers on Green Literacy, a teaching practice that uses children’s literature and digital media as a springboard for critical pedagogy. She is an emeritus professor of Cleveland State University. She presently lives in Gainesville Cohousing in Gainesville Florida. She enjoys learning about cooperative culture, yoga, swimming and enjoying time with friends.

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Mathilde is an architectural designer at Studio Co+hab. Her background in cohousing design includes working at McCamant and Durrett Architects, who introduced the concept of Cohousing in America. She also helped develop Habitat & Partage, a cooperative that aims to facilitate the emergence of Cohousing projects in France. Between France and the USA, she has visited and contributed to many communities exploring the relationship between design and the social structure of communities. She is experienced in designing workshops and giving public presentations inspired by her diverse experience.

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Meg Kamens In her previous life, Meg worked as an attorney: in legal services, for the NYC Commission on Human Rights, for community development credit unions and finally in affordable housing finance. Then in 1994, she co-founded Camp Common Ground, a family camp with a focus on the arts and nature programs. In 2004 she developed a permanent home for CCG, which became the Common Ground Center on a 700-acre site in Vermont. This facility which hosts many programs, rentals and retreats focuses on diversity, environmental sustainability, arts and music education and appreciation of the natural world. After retiring as Co-Director of Common Ground Center, Meg co-founded and developed Bristol Village Cohousing, a 15-unit community adjacent to Main Street, right downtown. The project has won awards for its energy efficient design and the preservation of the town’s historic streetscape.

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Michelle Passoff is the author of "LIGHTEN UP! Free Yourself From Clutter * HarperPerennial) and is currently writing a book on the topic of letting go for the 55+ community. She has lectured and conducted private consultations and seminars back and forth across the US, UK and Australia Previously a publicist in New York City, she now lives in St. Petersburg, Florida where she owned an estate sale company for 14 years with her husband, Andre Kupfermunz. Passoff holds an American and Belgian citizenship.

Mike Wird is an advanced permaculture designer/consultant/teacher, artist educator, and natural builder, who shares his dedication to social and environmental justice through cultural arts and regenerative practices. Mike hs been actively building community for over a decade as a cultural arts ambassador, raising awareness about social, environmental and ecological issues and their solutions in our environments. In 2011, Mike received his diploma in Earthship Biotecture, and was certified in Permaculture Design, studying under Adam Brock, Toby Hemenway, Larry Santoyo, Penny Livingston, Michael Becker, Jason Gerhardt, Jerome Osentowski, and others. In 2013, he received his advanced permaculture design certificate and permaculture teacher training with Sandy Cruz, Becky Elder, Peter Bane, Pandora Thomas, Eric Toensmier, and Brad Lancaster. In 2012, Mike graduated from the Greater Good Academy, a triple bottom line business school focusing on socially and ecologically responsible business practices. In 2013, he received his advanced permaculture design certificate and permaculture teacher training with Sandy Cruz, Becky Elder, Peter Bane, Pandora Thomas, Eric Toensmier, and Brad Lancaster. In 2014, the City of Denver along with Green For All, a non-profit organization based out of Oakland, California, dedicated to creating a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty, awarded Mike for his work within the Hip hop arts and Permaculture communities. In 2017, Mike co-founded the Boulder Permaculture Design Course and facilitated a permaculture design certification course for the people on the island of Dominica. In 2019, he consulted, brought together a building team and had permitted and built one of Pueblo, CO's first residential biotecture homes. Mike is Co-Founder of Regenerative Adventures LLC, an education firm offering services and opportunities in alignment with integrated living systems. The Center for Regenerative Living is a project of Reg

Michael Eliason is a researcher, writer, and architect specializing in mass timber, social housing, baugruppen (urban cohousing), and ecodistricts. His career has been dedicated to advancing innovation and broadening the discourse on green buildings, passivhaus, non-market housing, and mass timber. His professional experience includes extensive public work in both the Pacific Northwest, and Germany. He has been a guest critic and lecturer at several institutions, including the University of Washington, and Cornish College of the Arts. His writings and past collaborations have been featured in Treehugger, Archinect, the Urbanist, Sightline Institute, the Seattle Times, Crosscut, and City Observatory. He has also presented internationally, been featured on podcasts, and recently was interviewed for a documentary on social housing in Vienna. Michael is an activist for dense, healthy, affordable, and sustainable cities.

Morada Quintessence is a trusted retirement community in Albuquerque, NM. Our team offers an array of desirable features and amenities that support fun, recreation, personal enrichment, socialization, health and wellness, and more. From concierge services to 24-hour care to scheduled transportation services, residents can live in our senior living community without any worries. They can safely enjoy daily activities, social events, pursue their hobbies, and simply live comfortably in their well-appointed apartment homes. Visit our website to learn more: Assisted living in Albuquerque, NM Respite care in Albuquerque, NM

Myfan Jordan has worked in local government and the community sector for almost 20 years, including in UK public housing. Currently the LGBTIQ+ Community Planner with Banyule City Council, she has had senior roles in policy, planning and research, including as Founder Director of Grassroots Research Studio. Myfan is passionate about empowering people experiencing disadvantage, and involving them in policy development through co-design. Having previously published research on collaborative housing for older women, Myfan is currently developing ‘Pivot Cohousing’, a cohousing model suitable for Trans and Gender-Diverse and Non-Binary Young in Melbourne. Myfan is involved with Cohousing Australia as an ally and advocate.

Cofounder of Kailash Ecovillage, a unique rental based intentional community located in central Portland, Oregon, modeled after the original Danish cohousing paradigm. We are pushing the envelope in sustainability, including a fully permitted ecological sanitation system, emphasis on local, organic food production, and carbon footprint reduction through energy conservation and on site production with the goal to become net zero.

Olivia R. Williams is a researcher, writer, advocate, and practitioner working for the decommodification of land and housing. They received a PhD in Geography in 2017 from Florida State University with research on community land trusts (CLTs), and began working at Madison Area Community Land Trust as the executive director in 2020. Olivia was also part of a research collaboration with MIT CoLab on researching and writing the 2020 report, A Guide to Transformative Land Strategies. She has published in Urban Geography, Antipode, Housing Studies, Local Economy, and Area, among other academic outlets, as well as non-academic outlets like Jacobin, Shelterforce, and the 2020 book of essays on CLTs, On Common Ground.

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Pam is a physician in Madison WI, at UW Health, and volunteers with Madison Street Medicine. One of her concentrations is the practice of Sociocracy, and she does sociocracy trainings for Madison Street Medicine, a nonprofit organization which uses this model of governance. She is currently training with SoFA (Sociocracy for All), and, at this co-housing conference, she is assisting Jerry Koch-Gonzalez of that organization, in the preconference intensive Sociocracy/Dynamic Governance: A Practical Introduction.

Pedro Silva, YOUnify Director of Engagement, brings a wealth of cross-sector experience. A veteran of the United States Air Force, who served as both a Satellite Communications Technician and a Mandarin Chinese Language/Intelligence Analyst, he has cultivated the capacity to think missionally and practically--strategically and tactically--on a wide variety of concerns. In his post military career, Pedro worked as a corporate recruiter for 8 years serving dozens of for profit, not for profit, and B Corporations in the areas of technology, biotech, and more. In 2009, he entered Andover Newton Theological Seminary and for 10 years served as a pastor in the socially active, United Church of Christ. In this role, Pedro built on his passion for civic engagement. For 3 years he served as the State Representative for the Boulder Caucus of Together Colorado, an organization of the Faith In Action Network, where he worked on a variety of issues at the local to state levels from affordable housing, gun violence, and voting to living wage legislation and the Family Leave Act. He also served on several committees with the local NAACP chapter and worked with the Boulder Community Foundation as an advisor in the wake of the tragic shooting in Boulder. In addition to these efforts, Pedro hosted numerous in person and online conversations on race in Boulder County, has been an advocate for the homeless community, and has made a mark on the bridging movement through his volunteer work with Living Room Conversations and now as a Director of Engagement with YOUnify.

Ryan began his journey in the industry as a woodworker and finish carpenter. After gaining some building experience, he moved into the design side of the industry back in 2010 and worked on single-family, light commercial, and community-based projects. Ryan now works at Caddis Collaborative in Boulder, CO and loves finding the balance between the built environment and the natural environment, working with natural building materials, high-performance envelopes, and passive building strategies. Ryan’s education experience started at the University of Colorado Boulder. Later he went on to take several courses at Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Vermont, where he studied design build, heavy timber frame, and cabinetry. He also has been trained in Permaculture, Passivhaus, Living Building/Community Challenge, Natural Building techniques and Wildland/ Fire Restoration.

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Community Organizer. Facilitator. Matchmaker. Cohousing Coach. EcoVillage Ambassador. Aging-in-Community Author. Certified Senior Advisor. Certified Sage-ing Leader. Activist-in-Residence, Modern Elder Academy. Founding Member, Elders Action Network / Elders Climate Action. Past boardmember, FIC / Coho/US. Regional organizer, East Bay Cohousing / Cohousing California. Founder of the Cohousing Open Network. Living in community in Berkeley, California.

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Regency Pointe offers the finest retirement community in Rainbow City, AL, delivering three different living options. Residents can sign up for Independent Living, Assisted Living or SHINE Memory Care depending on the level of support they are looking to receive. Our community has set a certain standard to ensure our residents get to enjoy conveniences right at their doorstep including chef-prepared meals, 24-hours personalized care, and a scenic, tranquil atmosphere. Come schedule a tour of our campus today to personally experience the enriching lifestyle here at Regency Pointe. More Information info@regencypointe.net (256) 400-5599 https://www.facebook.com/RegencyPointeSeniorLiving https://www.instagram.com/regencypointe_seniorliving/ 24 Hours

A former architect, Robin was the founder and Development Coordinator of Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood, an award-winning cohousing development of 32 homes and common facilities in suburban Auckland, New Zealand, committed to environmentally sustainable design with intensive community involvement. Robin now writes, teaches and consults to inspire and support thriving connected communities. Her seminars, lectures and workshops on community-led housing development, governance, eco-building, and sustainable urban design have been a catalyst of the growing cohousing movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. Robin is a committee member of THIS, The Housing Innovation Society in Aotearoa NZ, and a director of Walk to Work Eco-Developments Ltd, planning an eco-friendly social-enterprise business hub at the front of the Earthsong land. She is also a co-founder of YIMFY, Yes! In My Front Yard, supporting and promoting the use of environmentally restorative building materials and systems. Her book Cohousing for Life is both a handbook for cohousing and her personal story of the collective endeavour of developing Earthsong. E-book available from https://www.ic.org/community-bookstore/product/cohousing-for-life/ Hard copy can be ordered directly from her website at https://robinallison.co.nz/

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Roger Studley is the founder of Urban Moshav, a non-profit development partner for Jewish cohousing, and is the initiator of the Berkeley Moshav project. He is a certified cohousing consultant, serves as a community advisor for Hakhel, the international incubator of Jewish intentional communities, and has contributed to all six Jewish Intentional Community Conferences. Roger is married to Rabbi Chai Levy of Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, CA.

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Sabrina Bresson is a sociologist, lecturer at the National School of Architecture Paris Val de Seine and head of the Housing Research Center (France). Her research focuses on housing social practices in relation to urban transformation and change in housing design or policies. After a PhD thesis on architectural experiments in social housing after WW2, she became interested in alternative housing, such as “participatory housing” and “collaborative housing”. She visited many cohousing projects in France and supports the development of such projects in the social housing sector.

Sam Brown is a UK-based Architect and Educator with a wide range of practice experience in the UK and further afield. Currently in post at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture (SSoA), Sam has also held Senior Architect and Associate positions at a number of architectural practices and worked in multi-disciplinary teams on larger projects. Sam has also taught Architecture at various levels in a number of Schools of Architecture in the UK and internationally – and carried out industry-based research projects for national bodies in his specialist field of community-led housing and self-build projects. At the SSoA, Sam leads the Live Projects Programme, which sees groups of masters-level students from different cohorts work together in teams on real projects for real clients selected for their non-profit, social or environmental ethos. The Programme is now in its 22nd year - and has developed a number of projects for cohousing groups and other forms of community-led housing in that time, as well as engaged, strategic work for local authorities, charities and grass-roots community groups of all kinds. Sam is also an accredited Community Led Housing Adviser working with enabling hubs in London and the West Midlands.

Sarah Arthurs with Cohousing Connections is a graduate of the 500 Communities Program and an affiliate of CoHousing Solutions. She has lived at Prairie Sky Cohousing Cooperative for 15 years. Sarah is a Psychologist and a community developer. She finds cohousing endlessly fascinating and is always thrilled to join forming and established groups in sinking deeper into the goodness that being neighbours, in the fullest sense of that word, can offer. Recently she has started working with developers and groups regarding setting up Intentional Neighbourhoods which seek to replicate cohousing culture in a rental or housing co-operative context. When she pulls herself away from all things cohousing, she likes walking Rosie ( Havanese Poodle, making soup , going to the mountains, playing Pickleball and hanging out with two lovely adult children.

Sarah is passionate about empowering people and businesses through ownership. She enthusiastically jumped into real estate after she and her partner found a 5,000-square-foot house in Denver, Colorado, recruited members, and together transformed it into the democratically-run and cooperatively-owned Queen City Cooperative. Her previous background includes nonprofit and sustainability as well as marketing and community relations, so it’s no surprise that she loves enfranchising artists, activists, and entrepreneurs through property ownership. Considered an expert in collective living, co-buying, and a champion for housing innovation, Sarah thrives in finding creative solutions and spaces for all.

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I am part 2 student of Architecture at Sheffield University with an interest in alternative strategies to housing in the United Kingdom.

Our Mission is to create senior cohousing resources and make them readily available, which will enable seniors to find existing communities or learn how to start a community.

Shelly Parks is passionate about cohousing and committed to offering more cohousing opportunities for future cohousers. In 2016, she left her Marketing and Sales career in the Senior Living Retirement industry to found Covision Consulting, a firm focused on supporting developing cohousing communities recruit their community members. Most recently, she has expanded her services to include Cohousing PNW, a collective of professional partners and future cohousers committed to developing more cohousing in the Pacific Northwest. Shelly and her partner, Charles, are members of Skagit Cohousing, a community under construction in Anacortes, WA.

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Sky Blue (They/Them pronouns) has spent 22 years living, working, and organizing in intentional communities, cooperatives, and community organizations. Their parents met in Twin Oaks Community in the late 70’s, where Sky moved as an adult and raised a child. Sky has visited over 130 different communities, worked with the Federation of Egalitarian Communities and Global Ecovillage Network of North America, co-organized numerous communities conferences, and has served as Executive Director and on the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Intentional community. They are currently working with a group of people to start a new community, and contribute to a variety of groups as an organizer, consultant, and speaker as part of The Next Big Step.

Stefani Danes FAIA is a founding member of Rachel Carson EcoVillage on the campus of Chatham University’s School of Sustainability in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During the development phase, she is also serving as project manager. As an architect, she has designed urban affordable housing, cohousing, and community facilities. She has been active in her own neighborhood community organizations since helping to found them in 1989. She teaches courses on housing, intentional communities, and sustainable neighborhood revitalization in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon. Over the past ten years, she has visited more than forty communities in the US and Denmark, prepared post-occupancy evaluations, and has completed a course in cohousing development. She has been a presenter at at national Cohousing Conferences.

Stephen Eckert is a registered architect with 20+ years experience in residential design and construction. Before joining Caddis in 2018, Stephen was principal at Eckalizzi design and a part time adjunct teacher at the University of Colorado, School of Environmental Design. Stephen spearheaded a course in design/build for five summers at the Lama Foundation in Taos, NM, where he facilitated the design and construction of four unique cabin/tiny homes and one shower facility. In private practice he has worked on projects ranging from single family homes to multifamily projects. A passion for affordable housing lead Stephen to serve five years as a board member for Boulder Housing Partners, the local housing Authority. Stephen brings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to his work. He was a founding member of Wildsage cohousing, and recently completed a gap year around the world with his family. He is eager to put what he learned to practice in Caddis’s projects. Stephen believes in the power of good design, community, and sustainability to transform our world.

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I am a founding member of Heartwood Commons, a 55+ cohousing community for active adults in Tulsa opening later in 2023. Raised by my grandparents, I became a gerontological nurse and specialized in developing and funding community-based programs to help older adults remain healthy and active, and to support family caregivers. I saw what happened when people thought ahead, and when they didn't. Thankfully my grandmother was a terrific role model. She refused to becoming stuck and isolated, staying in her home too long. With her strong will and self-determination, she chose where and how she wanted to live. And, now I am too. The first time I set foot in a cohousing community. I knew it was how I wanted to live the rest of my life.

Ted is an advocate, trainer and consultant for self-governance with sociocracy. After his PhD in linguistics, he encountered peer-oriented governance system and became curious about ways of organizing grassroots groups effectively yet equitably. He is co-founder of Sociocracy For All, a nonprofit with a mission to equip people with the skills and knowledge to self-govern and self-organize. Ted identifies as a transgender man; he has 5 children between 8 and 18. Born in Germany, he has lived in an intentional community in Massachusetts since 2011. He has written many articles and two books on the topic of self-governance, the sociocracy manual Many Voices One Song (2018) and a how-to-start guide for new groups, Who Decides Who Decides (2021).

PAST SESSIONS

Tim Riley is the founder and Managing Director of Property Collectives. Since 2010 Property Collectives has established itself as the leading deliberative development group in Australia. They focus on development & investment advisory, impact investment, and an at cost citizen led building group model which is developing 80 homes across 10 projects in Northcote, Thornbury, West & North Melbourne, St Kilda, Brunswick and Eltham.

Tim Riley is the founder and Managing Director of Property Collectives. Since 2010 Property Collectives has established itself as the leading deliberative development group in Australia. They focus on development advisory for build to hold clients, impact investment, and an at cost citizen led building group model which is developing 80 homes across 10 projects in Melbourne.

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PAST SESSIONS

Tom is currently studying a Architecture and Landscape Architecture masters at the University of Sheffield. Prior to this, he practiced as an Architectural Assistant and a Landscape Architect in London