PosiPair's Council of Advisors

Gar Alperovitz

Alperovitz is the founder of The Democracy Collaborative, which focuses on the role community economic stability plays as an essential foundation of civic practice and democratic life. He is a historian, political economist, activist, and writer. Gar is the author of America Beyond Capitalism.

Website: http://www.garalperovitz.com

Michael Shuman

Shuman is the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) research and public policy director. He is an economist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur. Michael has authored, coauthored, or edited seven books, including The Small Mart Revolution and Going Local.

Website: http://small-mart.org/

Francis Moore Lappé

Moore Lappé is world famous as the author of Diet for a Small Planet, as well as fifteen other books. She is an advocate for living economies, founder of the Small Planet Institute, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award, often called "the alternative Nobel."

Website: http://www.smallplanet.org/

Ronnie Cummins

Cummins is a pioneer of the organics revolution and the National Director of the Organic Consumers Association.

Website: http://www.organicconsumers.org/
Website: http://www.grassrootsnetroots.org/

Terence Ow

Terence T. Ow is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology in the Management Department,School of Business Administration at Marquette University. 

Website: http://www.marquette.edu/~owt/

Pete Johnson

 
Johnson is founder of 5Elements, Inc., and Director of Sonoplot. He has over 12 years of sales, marketing and technical experience in rapid-growth technology companies. 

Website: http://www.sonoplot.com/company

Allen Dines

 
Dines is the Assistant Director of the UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations. He is an expert on entrepreneurship, new ventures, private equity and commercialization of university technology through startup business development.

Website: http://www.ocr.wisc.edu/