Yana Ludwig

Yana served on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Intentional Community for over a decade. She lived in community for 26 years and was a founder 4 times – all of her work is grounded in deep community experience. Her writing includes The Cooperative Culture Handbook (co-authored with Karen Gimnig) focuses on articulating a vision and practical pathway for intentional culture building; and many articles in Communities magazine. Her latest book is on starting intentional communities, Building Belonging: Your Guide to Starting a Residential Intentional Community.

Yana is the former Executive Director of the Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage and Commonomics USA (an economic justice organization). She currently serves in that role for the North Coast Food Web in Oregon, where she has taken many of the lessons of cooperative culture into the world of food systems. She is a dynamic, compassionate and thoughtful speaker and teacher, committed to creating a more just and resilient world.

Learn more about Yana here.

Cynthia Tina

Cynthia helps people discover intentional community living for better housing, health, and happiness. She has traveled to 200+ intentional communities around the world and resides in a Vermont ecovillage in her self-built natural home. Her speaking, businesses, and consultancy have contributed to the growth of numerous community-led housing projects.

 
Cynthia is the founder of CommunityFinders, offering programs to help people join and start intentional communities. She’s also the founder of Ecovillage Tours, bringing people on inspirational journeys to regenerative communities worldwide. Start your intentional community journey by taking this short quiz to discover the type of community that’s a fit for you: https://communityfinders.com/quiz

Jenny Myers

Jenny (she/her) is a sustainability educator with a passion for place-based learning and climate psychology. She lives at the EcoVillage at Ithaca where she leads educational programming for Thrive. Jen’s experience includes work in the non-profit sector fostering local food systems, seven years in higher education teaching sustainability and social justice, and summers leading backpacking trips in the Sierra Nevada mountains with Big City Mountaineers.

Learn more about Jenny here.

Kim Kanney

Kim began working for the FIC in 2014 fulfilling book orders and then managing the bookstore. She has lived for the majority of the last 13 years living in the intentional communities of northeast Missouri. Today she is exploring the questions of how intentional community living permeates our everyday lives and how we can use our experience as a tool for collective healing. Kim is a creative, dancer, gardener and herbalist, and is particularly excited about the world of natural dyeing and fiber art.