Personal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\nCharity Schmidt<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
As a cooperative development specialist at the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, Charity provides technical assistance to start-up co-ops and facilitates outreach efforts to cooperators and community-based organizations. She coordinates the work of the La Coalici\u00f3n de Desarrollo de Cooperativas de Madison<\/a> (MCDC), the City of Madison\u2019s funded initiative to form worker cooperatives that address income inequality and racial disparities by creating living-wage and sustainable jobs. She takes pride in creating spaces for co-op education and coordination, building relationships between entrepreneurs and community organizations, and contributing to community-driven economic development in Madison.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCharity earned masters degrees in Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies, and Sociology from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She taught classes on social theory, sociology of race and ethnicity, and American contemporary society at Madison College and UW-Madison. She has published work in topics ranging from diversity in and access to service learning, sociology in action beyond the university, and the crisis facing bee colonies. She serves on the Board of MadWorC<\/a>, the peer to peer network of Madison worker cooperatives, the Board of Worker Justice WI<\/a>, which builds collective worker power through training, labor rights education, collective action and community engagement, with an emphasis on interfaith involvement, and the Board of the Association of Cooperative Educator<\/a>s (ACE), which united cooperative researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers primarily across Canada, United States, and the Caribbean, and the Board of Shared Capital Cooperative<\/a>, a lending and investment fund for co-ops. When she\u2019s not working, Charity likes to kayak, play pool, listen to spooky podcasts, or just relax in her garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\nContacto: charity.schmidt@wisc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Schmidt_Charity_20180830_4x5crop-819x1024.jpg\")
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Mesa Ejecutiva<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\nCourtney Berner<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Courtney se sum\u00f3 al Centro para Cooperativas de la Universidad de Wisconsin en 2011 y trabaj\u00f3 como especialista en desarrollo de cooperativas hasta que pas\u00f3 a ser Directora Ejecutiva en enero de 2018. Como Directora Ejecutiva, ella desarrolla cursos, conferencias y otros programas educativos y trabaja estrechamente con el director docente en la direcci\u00f3n estrat\u00e9gica del Centro. Courtney da un curso sobre cooperativas<\/a> en la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison con un enfoque en el rol y el manejo de cooperativas, los grupos cooperativos y la acci\u00f3n colectiva.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCourtney ha brindado apoyo a cooperativas nuevas y establecidas de todo tipo y en un rango de industrias tales como la agricultura, las tiendas de comida, la manufactura, la energ\u00eda, la salud y la silvicultura. Sus \u00e1reas de conocimiento incluyen el desarrollo de empresas, el financiamiento y la gobernanza de las cooperativas, y los usos innovadores del modelo cooperativo. Courtney escribe y presenta frecuentemente sobre el modelo cooperativo de negocios y \u00faltimamente coescribi\u00f3 Coordinating Farm Labor Across Farms: A Toolbox for Diversified Farmers and Farmworkers<\/a> con Farm Commons.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAntes de sumarse al Centro, Courtney trabaj\u00f3 en el Worldwatch Institute, un instituto de investigaci\u00f3n independiente dedicado a problemas ambientales globales. Courtney tiene una maestr\u00eda en agroecolog\u00eda de la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison y bachilleratos en biolog\u00eda, franc\u00e9s y estudios ambientales de Pacific Lutheran University en Tacoma, Washington. Courtney fue parte de la Mesa Directiva de Willy Street Grocery Co-op de 2013 a 2016 y en la actualidad es parte la Mesa Directiva de la Wisconsin Economic Development Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Informaci\u00f3n de contacto: (608) 890-0966 o cberner@wisc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Rebecca is a worker-owner at Union Cab Cooperative where she has worked as a taxi driver and served in various governance and management positions since 2000. She is the past President of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives and the past President of CICOPA North America, the sub-regional body of the worker cooperative sector of the International Cooperative Alliance. She was also the Vice President of CICOPA Americas and served on the Executive Board of CICOPA worldwide for six years. An elected Alderperson on the Madison Common Council from 2015 – 2021, Rebecca is currently involved with many projects, including the Line 5 Coalition, Madison Mutual Aid Network, Solidarity Economy Principles Project, regional food systems advocacy, and various worker cooperative and media projects.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Martin Alvarado<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Martin Alvarado (he\/him\/\u00e9l) is the Community Engagement Librarian for Business and Technology at Madison Public Library. His work focuses on equitable support for diverse entrepreneurs, promoting the worker cooperative model, digital inclusion, and oral community histories through the library\u2019s Living History Project archive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>He has an Associate in Arts from Madison Area Technical College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and Geophysics from UW-Madison, and a Masters of Library and Information Science with an IT concentration from UW-Milwaukee.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMartin is a founder and former worker-owner at the Interpreters’ Cooperative of Madison. He currently serves on the boards of DANEnet, We are Many – United Against Hate, and AFSCME Local 6000. You can catch him on Monday mornings from 9 to noon on WORT 89.9FM Madison, where he co-hosts the folk and international music show Global Revolutions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nHe can be reached at malvarado@madisonpubliclibrary.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Martin-headshot-1024x683.jpg\")
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Charity Schmidt<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
As a cooperative development specialist at the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, Charity provides technical assistance to start-up co-ops and facilitates outreach efforts to cooperators and community-based organizations. She coordinates the work of the La Coalici\u00f3n de Desarrollo de Cooperativas de Madison<\/a> (MCDC), the City of Madison\u2019s funded initiative to form worker cooperatives that address income inequality and racial disparities by creating living-wage and sustainable jobs. She takes pride in creating spaces for co-op education and coordination, building relationships between entrepreneurs and community organizations, and contributing to community-driven economic development in Madison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Charity earned masters degrees in Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies, and Sociology from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She taught classes on social theory, sociology of race and ethnicity, and American contemporary society at Madison College and UW-Madison. She has published work in topics ranging from diversity in and access to service learning, sociology in action beyond the university, and the crisis facing bee colonies. She serves on the Board of MadWorC<\/a>, the peer to peer network of Madison worker cooperatives, the Board of Worker Justice WI<\/a>, which builds collective worker power through training, labor rights education, collective action and community engagement, with an emphasis on interfaith involvement, and the Board of the Association of Cooperative Educator<\/a>s (ACE), which united cooperative researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers primarily across Canada, United States, and the Caribbean, and the Board of Shared Capital Cooperative<\/a>, a lending and investment fund for co-ops. When she\u2019s not working, Charity likes to kayak, play pool, listen to spooky podcasts, or just relax in her garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contacto: charity.schmidt@wisc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div> Courtney se sum\u00f3 al Centro para Cooperativas de la Universidad de Wisconsin en 2011 y trabaj\u00f3 como especialista en desarrollo de cooperativas hasta que pas\u00f3 a ser Directora Ejecutiva en enero de 2018. Como Directora Ejecutiva, ella desarrolla cursos, conferencias y otros programas educativos y trabaja estrechamente con el director docente en la direcci\u00f3n estrat\u00e9gica del Centro. Courtney da un curso sobre cooperativas<\/a> en la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison con un enfoque en el rol y el manejo de cooperativas, los grupos cooperativos y la acci\u00f3n colectiva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Courtney ha brindado apoyo a cooperativas nuevas y establecidas de todo tipo y en un rango de industrias tales como la agricultura, las tiendas de comida, la manufactura, la energ\u00eda, la salud y la silvicultura. Sus \u00e1reas de conocimiento incluyen el desarrollo de empresas, el financiamiento y la gobernanza de las cooperativas, y los usos innovadores del modelo cooperativo. Courtney escribe y presenta frecuentemente sobre el modelo cooperativo de negocios y \u00faltimamente coescribi\u00f3 Coordinating Farm Labor Across Farms: A Toolbox for Diversified Farmers and Farmworkers<\/a> con Farm Commons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Antes de sumarse al Centro, Courtney trabaj\u00f3 en el Worldwatch Institute, un instituto de investigaci\u00f3n independiente dedicado a problemas ambientales globales. Courtney tiene una maestr\u00eda en agroecolog\u00eda de la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison y bachilleratos en biolog\u00eda, franc\u00e9s y estudios ambientales de Pacific Lutheran University en Tacoma, Washington. Courtney fue parte de la Mesa Directiva de Willy Street Grocery Co-op de 2013 a 2016 y en la actualidad es parte la Mesa Directiva de la Wisconsin Economic Development Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Informaci\u00f3n de contacto: (608) 890-0966 o cberner@wisc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div> Rebecca is a worker-owner at Union Cab Cooperative where she has worked as a taxi driver and served in various governance and management positions since 2000. She is the past President of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives and the past President of CICOPA North America, the sub-regional body of the worker cooperative sector of the International Cooperative Alliance. She was also the Vice President of CICOPA Americas and served on the Executive Board of CICOPA worldwide for six years. An elected Alderperson on the Madison Common Council from 2015 – 2021, Rebecca is currently involved with many projects, including the Line 5 Coalition, Madison Mutual Aid Network, Solidarity Economy Principles Project, regional food systems advocacy, and various worker cooperative and media projects.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Martin Alvarado (he\/him\/\u00e9l) is the Community Engagement Librarian for Business and Technology at Madison Public Library. His work focuses on equitable support for diverse entrepreneurs, promoting the worker cooperative model, digital inclusion, and oral community histories through the library\u2019s Living History Project archive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>He has an Associate in Arts from Madison Area Technical College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and Geophysics from UW-Madison, and a Masters of Library and Information Science with an IT concentration from UW-Milwaukee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Martin is a founder and former worker-owner at the Interpreters’ Cooperative of Madison. He currently serves on the boards of DANEnet, We are Many – United Against Hate, and AFSCME Local 6000. 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Mesa Ejecutiva<\/h2>\n\n\n\nCourtney Berner<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Martin Alvarado<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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