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Gar Alperovitz
/ Steve Dubb / Ted Howard
/ Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Gar Alperovitz
Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political-Economy at
the University of Maryland and a founding Principal of The Democracy
Collaborative. He is a former Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University,
of the Institute of Politics at Harvard, of the Institute for Policy
Studies, and a Guest Scholar of the Brookings Institution. His most
recent book is America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth,
Our Liberty and our Democracy, www.americabeyondcapitalism.com
(John Wiley & Sons, 2004). He is also author (with Jeff Faux)
of Rebuilding America (Pantheon) and co-author (with Thad
Williamson and David Imbroscio) of Making a Place for Community
(Routledge, 2002). Well-known works in other areas include: The
Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (Knopf) and Atomic Diplomacy
(Simon & Schuster). Alperovitz received his Ph.D. in Political
Economy as a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University, a Masters Degree
from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science
Degree from the University of Wisconsin. Previously he was a Legislative
Director in the U.S. House of Representatives (with Rep. Robert Kastenmeier
of Wisconsin) and the U.S. Senate (with Senator Gaylord Nelson of
Wisconsin), and a Special Assistant concerned with United Nations
issues in the Department of State.
Steve Dubb
Steve Dubb has been a Senior Research Associate with The Democracy
Collaborative since March 2004. Dubb is the principal author of The
Democracy Colaborative's most recent book, Building Wealth:
The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems,
which was published by The Aspen Institute in 2005. Previously, he
was Executive Director of the North American Students of Cooperation
(NASCO), a U.S. and Canadian nonprofit association that provides education
and technical assistance to university and community-based housing
and retail cooperatives. For much of the past two decades, he has
worked in various positions in the cooperative or civil society sector.
Dubb received his Masters and Ph.D. in Political Science from the
University of California, San Diego. He received his Bachelor's
in Economics (with honors) and Spanish from the University of California,
Berkeley.
Ted Howard
Ted Howard is the founding Executive Director of The Democracy Collaborative.
Previously, he was the Executive Director of the National Center for
Economic and Security Alternatives, a research institute based in
Washington, D.C. For the past three decades, he has worked in the
not-for-profit/civil society sector, including more than 15 years
in international development with NGOs and agencies of the UN system.
He is author or co-author of several books, including Ending Hunger,
Entropy, and Who Should Play God? He serves as Chairman of the
Board of Search for Common Ground, the world's largest conflict
resolution NGO, and Blue Frontier, an environmental advocacy organization
committed to saving America's living oceans.
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Jessica Gordon Nembhard is Assistant Professor and economist in the
African American Studies Department, and a Founding Principal of The
Democracy Collaborative. Previously she served as Research Director
at the Washington, D.C.-based Preamble Center. Her current areas of
interest include democratic community-based economic development,
alternative urban development strategies, cooperative economics, race
and economic inequality, wealth inequality, and popular economic literacy.
Her recent publications include: Wealth Accumulation and Communities
of Color in the U.S.A.: Current Issues edited by Jessica Gordon
Nembhard and Ngina Chiteji (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and
From Community Economic Development and Ethnic Entrepreneurship
to Economic Democracy: The Cooperative Alternative edited by
Jonathan Feldman and Jessica Gordon Nembhard (2002). Nembhard earned
her Masters and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. She earned her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in Literature
and African American Studies from Yale University, and an M.A.T. in
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