About

We are a group of six working towards just transition of land into community land trusts to serve the needs of the residents in perpetuity.

Our first building is Template House, an intentional community in Lower Haight that is centered around the needs of people coming out of long term incarceration in California.

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Jeremy Mack

Jeremy is passionate about transformative approaches to public policy. Determined to help work towards more liberatory and empowered collective conditions, Jeremy strives to work with, and follow the lead of, directly impacted communities to undo harmful systems and replace them with healing ones.

Jeremy is invested and experienced in social justice-oriented policy research, community movement building, and anti-oppressive approaches to urban development. His key competencies include: public policy research, community organizing, coalition building, Restorative Justice-oriented facilitation, political canvassing, fundraising, and speech writing. His research has been published by the University of San Francisco, the State of Maine's Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Tribal and Indigenous Populations, and The Black Institute. In 2023, Jeremy presented the findings of his Master's Thesis at the European Urban Affairs Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Dr Zackary Dunivin

Zackary is a computer scientist and sociologist who has lived in intentional communities for 9 years. As a member of Bloomington Cooperative Living in Bloomington, Indiana they coordinated the purchase of BCL’s second house in 2020, lobbied the city council to rewrite the definition of “single family” to include cooperative houses, and successfully diverted municipal HUD funds to support affordable cooperative housing development. They currently reside at Beacon House, a co-op in South Mission.

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Ashoka Findley

Ashoka works at the intersection of what would make the world better right now, and what needs to be better 20 years from now. They are trained in political economy, global finance, resource wars, security studies & economic development. They have spent the last 10 years working on issues and systems related to food, energy, housing, and most recently blockchain as a way to coordinate the future resources that we need. Ashoka’s passion is working towards a mutually beneficial and restorative economy

Prof. Seth Frey

Seth (enfascination.com/research) is an organizer for the cooperative movement. In the intentional community space, he has served the cooperative business movement for 20 years, developing housing cooperatives, helping several communities in the transition to resident ownership, and serving national cooperative development boards (NASCO). He currently serves on the advisory board of of Vital Arts, a non-profit organization founded by families of the Ghost Ship Fire victims to provide safe affordable housing for artists in the Bay Area. Academically, he is a professor of Communication at the University of California, Davis. He earned his B.A. in Cognitive Science from Berkeley in 2004

Diva Harsoor

Diva is a computer scientist & engineer, living in the communes of the Bay. They are passionate about

Zarinah Agnew

Dr. Zarinah Agnew: (https://www.zarinahagnew.com/community) is a scientist by training and now runs two non-profits. One dedicated to the study of social science in the wild, and one dedicated to engineering experimental spaces where humans can ‘be otherwise’. Together these allow Zarinah to both prefigured new social configurations, as well as study them. These experimental spaces projects range from radical reading rooms, co-living spaces, to prison abolition and The Alternative Justices Project. The Second Life Project is a community centered around the needs and wisdoms of returning citizens, that centers collective emancipation and stewarded autonomy at its core. They have recently helped to start two intentional community houses centered around the experience of returning citizens. Zarinah stewards Haight Street Commons, a Bay Area organization that brings together people from different co-living spaces and helps them cross-pollinate, collaborate and create a parallel economy. Together all of these diverse endeavors fall into the realm of helping humans be and live otherwise.

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