Meet the Peer Advisors:
[EN] = English speaking
[SP] = Spanish speaking
Ana Martina Rivas
Community Certified Peer Advisor
Ana [she/ella] is a community organizer and facilitator of Mexican origin. She was a founding worker-owner member of Colmenar Cooperative Consulting. Her background and political formation comes from her involvement in community independent media in Mexico inspired by the Zapatista struggle. For full bio click here.
SP / EN
Andrew Stachiw
Community Certified Peer Advisor
Andrew Stachiw [he/him] is a co-founder and worker-owner of Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA) where he is the Director of Curriculum Development and Cooperative Education. Full bio.
EN
Annie Winkler
Community Certified Peer Advisor
Annie [they/them] worked for 12 years at Real Pickles Cooperative where they cut their teeth on bylaw and policy creation during the conversion to worker-coop in 2012 and is Program and Operations Generalist at the Vermont Employee Ownership Center. Full bio.
EN
brandon king
Community Certified Peer Advisor
brandon [he/they] director/CEO of Resonate.coop, an international music streaming platform cooperative, a co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and former anchor for Freedom Farms Coop. Full bio.
EN
Daniel Park
Community Certified Peer Advisor
Daniel [he/him] is a queer, bi-racial, theatre and performance artist, movement facilitator, and organizer for racial and labor justice the cultural sector. Full bio.
EN
Daniella Preisler
Community Certified Peer Advisor
Daniella [she/ella], originally from Chile, brings extensive experience as a cooperative development consultant, certified community coach and trainer and co-founder of her second cooperative business, Colmenar Cooperative Consulting, which services the Latinx community. Full bio.
SP / EN
Emma Yorra
Community Certified Peer Advisor
Emma Yorra [she/ella] is a Brooklyn-based, Spanish-speaking bookkeeper with 12 years of experience bringing her financial management and facilitation skills to cooperatives, movement nonprofits, and small businesses. Full bio.
EN / ES
Jim Johnson
Community Certified Peer Advisor
Jim [he/him] has worked in small businesses and micro-enterprises for over forty years, and has spent over twenty of those years working with and for worker co-ops and other types of co-ops. Full bio.
EN
Jonah Fertig-Burd
Community Certified Peer Advisor
EN
Mavery Davis
Community Certified Peer Advisor
Mavery [he/him] is breaking poverty and creating wealth. CPA by day, a husband, father, community organizer, a motivator, and founder of New Economy Works West Virginia. Full bio.
EN
McKenzie Jones
Community Certified Peer Advisor
McKenzie [she/her] is founder of The Worker Place, which helps to build a new solidarity economy by helping people instill democratic practices into their workplaces. Full bio.
EN
Michael Tekhen Strode
Community Certified Peer Advisor
Mike [he/him] is a writer, cyclist, IT consultant, facilitator, and solidarity economy organizer residing in southeast Chicago. He is founding coordinator of the Kola Nut Collaborative. Full bio.
EN
Pedro Maturana-Figueroa
Community Certified Peer Advisor
Pedro’s [he/him] experience includes 7 years as a worker member with Arizmendi Bakery and Pizzeria where he was involved in board governance, recruitment & training, evaluations, and bakery operations. Full bio.
EN / SP
Randon Martin
Community Certified Peer Advisor
Randon [he/him], Philadelphia, PA. Biography coming soon.
EN
Sonia Erika Espinosa
Community Certified Peer Advisor
EN / SP
Stephen Switzer
Community Certified Peer Advisor
EN / SP
Trenda Loftin
Community Certified Peer Advisor
Trenda [she/her] is the founding director of Willow Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (Willow PREC), a theatre artist, social justice consultant, and former worker-owner of The Compost Co-operative. Full bio.
EN
Amethyst Carey
Peer Advisor: Pending Community Certification*
Amethyst [she/her] is a Philly-based organizer, solidarity economy practitioner, and a lover of cooperatives. Full bio.
EN
D Rooney
Peer Advisor: Pending Community Certification*
D [they/them] is a member of Rock Steady Farm in Millerton, NY. Full bio coming soon.
EN
Julian Hill
Peer Advisor: Pending Community Certification*
;Julian Hill [he/they] is an assistant professor at Georgia State University College of Law. Full bio.
EN / SP
Angela Walton
Apprentice
Angela [she/her] member of Sustainability Solutions Group Co-op and Treasure City Collective. Full bio.
EN
Dalaeja Foreman
Apprentice
Dalaeja [she/they] is a world-builder, martial artist, curator, wood-worker and first-generation Caribbean-New Yorker. Full bio.
EN
Delia Jovel
Apprentice
Delia [she/ella] a founding member of the Tierra Fertil Agricultural Cooperative and also works with an organization called Transplanting Traditions. Full bio.
SP
Dilcia Molina Sanchez
Apprentice
Dilcia [she/ella] is a Honduran migrant woman, working class, Feminist, Popular Educator, community organizer, Healer and Social Psychologist. Full bio.
SP
Franklin Salazar
Apprentice
Franklin [he/él] was a member of the Sunset Scholars in Sunset Park and now with Radiate Consulting NYC. Full bio.
EN/SP
Kimberly Britt
Apprentice
Kimberly Britt [she/her[ is member owner of Chifresh Kitchen Worker Cooperative in Chicago and member-owner of jumpstart housing co-op. Full bio.
EN
LaTierra Piphus
Apprentice
LaTierra [sib/kin/she] is a Womxnist-Marxist, Resource Mobilizer, and Cultural Organizer using sib’s talents and skills to invest in the liberation of QTBIPOC fol, Black women and femmes and co-founder of Womxnist Liberation Cooperative. Full bio.
EN
Luz Maria Martinez
Apprentice
Luz Maria [she/ella] is an immigrant woman and is part of the organizing team of Cooperacion Santa Ana. Full bio.
SP
Octavia Cordon
Apprentice
Octavia [she/her] is co-founder of PhatDaddy’s on the Tracks Co-op and is part of New Economy Works West Virginia and Seed Commons. Full bio.
EN
Zenayda Bonilla
Apprentice
Zenayda has resided in NYC for two decades, joining Golden Steps Elder Care Cooperative Inc, in 2013 and cofounding consulting cooperative, United Community Consulting, LLC, a women-led cooperative. Full bio.
SP / EN
Esther West
Community Certified Peer Advisor: Temporarily Inactive
Esther [she/they] has five years of first-hand worker ownership experience from Equal Exchange and as a current worker-owner at Ajani Cooperative. Full bio.
EN
Kate “Sassy” Sassoon
Peer Advisor: Pending Community Certification: Temporarily Inactive
Sassy is the founder of Sassy Facilitation, which provides facilitation, training, and organizational design to innovative organizations. Full bio.
EN
*Pending Community Certification: advisors have yet to a project and received positive feedback from the client and collaborators, in addition to Co-op Clinic staff having ensured they meet the Community Certification criteria.