Author

Amy Hart is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She researches women who joined intentional communities in 19-century United States. She lives in a small intentional community located on the Central Coast of California called The Lavra.

Read Tim Anderson's bio here.

The Response was created by:

• Executive producer and host: Tom Llewellyn
• Senior producer, designer, and technical director: Robert Raymond
• Field producers: Juan C. Dávila, Paige Ruane, Ninna Gaensler-Debs, and Robert Raymond
• Consulting producer: Asher Miller
• Editors: Ambika Kandasmy and Neal Gorenflo
• Marketing: Courtney Pankrat and Amy Buringrud
• Operations: Joslyn Biele
• Translation and transcription: Ellie Llewellyn, Kate Riestenberg, and Juan C. Dávila
• Voice-over: Luisa Cardoza, Monique Hafen, Neda Raymond, and Ellie Llewellyn
• Graphic art and design: Kane Lynch and Ellie Llewellyn

This season of The Response is part of the "From Stories into Action" project, a collaboration between Shareable,  Post Carbon Institute, Transition US, Upstream Podcast, and NewStories, with distribution support from Making Contact. Funding was provided by the Threshold and SHIFT Foundations.

James Collector is a graduate of the Master of Development Practice program at the University of California, Berkeley where he studied sustainability through the lenses of business, impact evaluation, and project management. He earned his Bachelors in Journalism from the University of Colorado where he wrote his senior thesis on the structure of the internet and its consequences for digital media. His firsthand experiences living and working in intentional communities in the United States, Argentina, and India have convinced him that there is no better place in which to raise a family and live a healthy life.

Evie is a Southern Californian and recent graduate of Barnard College, where she majored in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a concentration in Race and Ethnicity Studies. Over the past couple of years, Evie has been involved with anti-mass incarceration work, environmental justice organizing, and facilitating a radical discussion group about all things related to gender and sexual identity. Her passion for environmental, economic, racial, and gender justice brings her to the world of solidarity economy work, where she serves as Program Manager for CEANYC and as a worker-owner of Sunset Scholars.