Community-founder and author, Yana Ludwig has dedicated her life to fostering cooperative cultures. She is the author of Building Belonging: Your Guide to Starting a Residential Intentional Community, released in May 2023; Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption; and co-author of The Cooperative Culture Handbook.
Yana lived in community for 26 years and was a founder four times – all of her work is grounded in deep community experience. She served on the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Intentional Community for over a decade and is the former Executive Director of the Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Commonomics USA and North Coast Food Web.
She is a dynamic, compassionate and thoughtful speaker and teacher, committed to creating a more just and resilient world.
Learn more about Yana here.
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May 6 – June 3, 2025
A residential project: people live here as their primary home.
An institution, business, network, or project that isn’t a residence (e.g. a learning center, farm, or network with no one living there full-time).
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