Leadership for the
ECOZOIC
Alternatives Beyond Capitalism is part of a series of Next Systems Teach-Ins taking place worldwide. This event will take place at the University of Vermont and downtown Burlington on Thursday, November 6th – Saturday, November 8th. Each day will offer a different set of opportunities to learn and connect, and people are welcome to come and go as they need.
Agenda
About the Speakers
Ronald Trosper
Emeritus Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Arizona
Ronald Trosper has just retired as Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. His latest work is Indigenous Economics; Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands (University of Arizona Press, 2022), which explores the consequences of Indigenous relationality for economic activity. He examined the institutions that provided stability for the peoples of the Northwest Coast in his book, Resilience, Reciprocity and Ecological Economics: Northwest Coast Sustainability (Routledge, 2009). His Ph.D. degree is in Economics, Harvard University (1974). He is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana.
Eleanor Finley
PhD, independent scholar
Eleanor is a political anthropologist and popular educator who writes, teaches, and conducts research about social ecology, radical municipalism, and direct democracy.
Michelle Eddleman McCormick
Director of Cooperation Vermont
Starting on this path advocating for systems change after running a mutual aid disaster relief project in the Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina, Michelle founded Cooperation Vermont as a sister organization to Cooperation Jackson and as part of the People’s Network for Land and Liberation.
Amanda Janoo
Economics & Policy Lead at Wellbeing Economy Alliance and Family Economic Security Fellow at New America
Blending expertise in heterodox economics, industrial policy and participatory democracy, Amanda has dedicated her career to advancing social and ecological wellbeing through economic systems change.
David Bollier
Director, Reinventing the Commons Program, Schumacher Center for a New Economics
David is a long-time activist, author, and podcast host who explores the commons as a new/old paradigm of social, economic and political change.
Joe Ament
Assistant Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics
Joe is an ecological macroeconomist who focuses on integrating ecosystem health and social justice in macroeconomic decision-making.
Keetu Winter
Executive Director, Wellspring Commons
Keetu is committed to giving all life the right to thrive and building community resilience through tools and methods that foster connectivity and support the health and dynamism of intact ecosystems, focusing at the intersection of place-based living, regenerative finance, regenerative food and material systems transformation, and systemic and cultural change.
Panel Opening
Emily Kawano
Wellspring Commons
Emily is a founder and co-coordinator of the US Solidarity Economy Network; in her day job as co-director of Wellspring Cooperative, she works to bring the solidarity economy into being by supporting the development of solidarity economy initiatives, including worker co-ops, in the underserved communities of Springfield and Holyoke, MA.
Matthew Burke
Research Assistant Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics and Leadership for the Ecozoic
Moderator