The People’s Disruption: Platform Coops for Global Challenges

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

Brendan Martin Founder & Director, Working World

William Azaroff Executive Lead, Vancity

Hal Plotkin Former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary of Education

Mathias Sager Founder, Platform Cooperativism Japan Consortium in Tokyo

Debby Kaplan Pioneer and Thought Leader in the Disability Civil Rights Movement

Alicia Trepat Pont Fellow, Workable Future Program at the Institute for the Future

Teresa Munchick Co-Founder, The Movement

Lucius Gregory Meredith Musician and Mathematician

Caitlin Pierce Director of Advocacy and Member Engagement, Freelancers Union

Ashley Taylor Cultural Activist

Brianna Wettlaufer Co-Founder, Stocksy

Jamie Burke CEO of Outlier Ventures, Europe's first blockchain venture capital firm

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

Fredrik Söderqvist Senior Economist, Unionen

Juan Jose Rodriguez Co-Founder, Aarhus Makers

danah boyd Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research & Founder/President, Data & Society.

Yaso Cordova Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center, & Fellow at Digital Harvard Kennedy School and CTS-FGV

Alicia Garza Strategy and Partnerships Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance & Fo-founder, Black Lives Matter Network

Howard Brodsky Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CCA Global Partners

Juliet Schor Professor of Sociology at Boston College

Maru Bautista At-Large Director, Center for Family Life

Ana Martina Rivas Membership Director, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives

Marco Tognetti Co-Founder and Executive Director, Lama Agency & Design Management Professor, ISIA University in Florence

Samer Hassan Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard Univ.) & Associate Professor, Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

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

Jim Kennedy Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate development at Associated Press

Ana Manzanedo Publicist & Fellow in the Workable Future Initiative of the Institute for the Future

Derek Razo Co-ZFounder & Partner, Purpose Economy Ventures

Matthew Cropp Community Operations Team Coordinator, Social.coop

Mara Zepeda Managing Director, Zebras Unite

Camille Kerr Founder & Principal of Upside Down Consulting

Maribel Torres Founding Member, Brightly Cleaning of Staten Island Co-op

Abigail Solomon Founder, Carina

Marina Gorbis Executive Director of the Institute for the Future (IFTF)

Trebor Scholz Researcher, author, New School professor, and Founding Director of the PCC

Duncan Wallace Education Officer, Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals

Felicia Wong President and CEO, Roosevelt Institute

Pia Mancini Co-Founder, Open Collective & Chair, Democracy Earth Foundation

Ela Kagel Managing Partner, SUPERMARKT

David Hammer Executive Director, ICA Group

Marcy Chong Director of Research, Public Division, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

Thorben Wieditz Lead, Fairbnb.ca Campaign

Jen Horonjeff Founder and CEO of Savvy Cooperative

Sam Witherbee Launched Peers.org & Co-Founder, Groundswell.org

Antti Virolainen Co-founder and COO at Sharetribe

Christina Jennings Executive Director, Shared Capital Cooperative

Damiano Avellino Co-founder, Fairbnb

Elena Como Head of Research& Evaluation, LAMA Agency,

Deb Socia Executive Director, Next Century Cities

Jutta Treviranus Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre

Sasha Costanza Chock Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT, Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, and creator of the MIT Codesign Studio