Platform Cooperativism: The Internet. Ownership. Democracy.

Sara Horowitz Union Organizer

Thomas Doennebrink Partner at SUPERMARKT

Rebecca Smith Deputy Director of the National Employment Law Project (NELP)

John Duda Communications Director at the Democracy Collaborative

Ra Criscitiello Deputy Director of Research, SEIU United Healthcare Workers West

Kanyi Maqubela Teacher and Venture Capitalist

Nathan Schneider Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The University of Colorado Boulder

Michelle Miller Co-Founder and Co-Director of Coworker.org

Yochai Benkler Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard University

Janelle Orsi lawyer, advocate, writer, and cartoonist

Vanessa Barth Works for IG Metall

McKenzie Wark Professor of Culture and Media, The New School

Danny Spitzberg Lead Researcher, Turning Basin Labs

Kristy Milland Community Manager of TurkerNation.com

Michel Bauwens Founder Director, P2P Foundation

Rachel Sherman Associate Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research

Emma Yorra Co-Director of the Cooperative Development Program at the Center for Family Life (CFL) in Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Karla Morales Member-Owner of Beyond Care Childcare Cooperative

Brad Burnham Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures

Arun Sundararajan Professor and NEC Faculty Fellow, New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Laura Y. Liu Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School

Juliet Schor Professor of Sociology at Boston College

Brishen Rogers Associate Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law

Karen Gregory Ethnographer and Theory-Building Scholar

Palak Shah Founding Director of Fair Care Labs & Social Innovations Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance

Astra Taylor Filmmaker, Writer, Activist, and Musician

Xtine Burrough Co-Directs SP&CE Media Lab

Micky Metts Worker/Owner, Agaric

Dmytri Kleiner Venture Communist, Telekommunisten

Caroline Woolard Director of Research and Partnerships, Open Collective & Art.coop

Frank Pasquale Member of the NSF-funded Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society & Affiliate Fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project

Scott Heiferman Co-founder and Chairman of Meetup

Trebor Scholz New School professor and Founding Director of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium

Felix Weth CEO, Platform21

Rachel O’Dwyer Lecturer in Digital Cultures

Tom Slee Product Manager with SAP

Douglas Rushkoff Founder, Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens