Co-Founders & Advisors
Co-Founders of 1worker1vote
Kristen Barker
Passionate union worker co-op catalyst, mother, community organizer; co-founder of CoopCincy
Christopher Cooper
Committed to empowering people by helping to create economic opportunity; program coordinator at the Ohio Employee Ownership Center
William Generett Jr.
Working to make sure that all communities are connected to the new economy; founding CEO of Urban Innovation21 and now Vice President for Community Engagement, Duquesne University.
Carmen Huertas-Noble
Professor of Law at CUNY Law School; founding executive director for the CUNY LAW Community Economic Development Clinic (CEDC), recipient of the 2020 U.S. Cooperative Community Hall of Fame award
Michael Peck
Executive Director of 1worker1vote, co-founder of The Virtuous Cycle Collaboratory (tvc2) – a MBE worker cooperative & social enterprise whose mission is to “flatten the curves” with virtuous cycles, former International Delegate (USA) for the Mondragón Co-operative Corporation (1999 –2019), board secretary for the American Sustainable Business Network, and Blue Green Alliance corporate advisory board member
Missy Risser
Public interest attorney committed to social, racial, and economic justice; attorney with the Urban Justice Center’s Community Development Project, now Professor of Law at CUNY Law School and affiliated with the CUNY LAW Community Economic Development Clinic (CEDC)
Elizabeth Sholes
Union co-op catalyst organizing California progressive faith communities, labor, immigrant groups, and communities of color
Ellen Vera
Co-founder of Coop Cincy and former National Manufacturing Organizing Coordinator for the IUE-CWA
Advisory Board of 1worker1vote
National Vice President for Telecommunications & Technologies, Communications Workers of America (CWA)