Meet the FIC Team

Adder Oaks has spent most of his adult living communally with over a decade of membership at Twin Oaks Community in Virginia. Over the years he has worked as a parent, teacher, IT technician, machine operator, community administrator, economic planner, and more. He loves board games, rationalist fiction, novel voting systems, and meditation. He also serves as Director and Treasurer for Sirimangalo International Buddhist Meditation Society, a Canadian Registered Charity dedicated to teaching mindfulness meditation.

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Bianca is a journalist who dropped the newsroom to explore communitarian ways of living in this world. She volunteered at intentional communities in Brazil and Asia and has been living at permaculture farms since 2019. She is a member of Pertim.org, a collective that connects small organic farmers to vulnerable communities in peripheral regions. She is also a farmer and seed saver.

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Cristo is a veteran digital nomad from the island of Puerto Rico. After spending 7 years in tech startups building websites for the top fortune 500 companies, he now helps people and non-profits manifest their dreams through eCommerce, ecstatic dance, and fire ceremony. Cristo has spent the last 12 years consulting and traveling to various intentional communities to bring back knowledge of sustainability, holistic living and permaculture to help build a healthier future for the community of Puerto Rico.

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Back in 1998, following his Ph.D. dissertation on Growing up in Intentional Communities, Daniel founded Living Routes, which ran study abroad programs in ecovillages around the world. In 2012, he started Earth Deeds, which offers online tools to account for our unavoidable CO2 emissions. Over the years, Daniel visited over 100 communities and lived in many, including Sirius in Massachusetts, Auroville in south India and, most recently, the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland, where he served as Director of Education. Daniel is co-founder and past Board Member of Gaia Education and served as President of the Global Ecovillage Network from 2015-2019. Daniel’s passion is to support the development of whole people, living well and lightly together.

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Eva Goldfarb leads the ongoing management of FIC’s directory with care and clarity, ensuring a smooth user experience and responsive support. She is coordinating the directory migration and will continue to maintain and moderate it post-launch, while also supporting customer service and technical needs, especially with WordPress. Eva brings a strong background in community-building as a founding member of an intentional community and serves as Communications Leader with the Global Ecovillage Network. Offscreen, she’s an artist, plant witch, connector, writer, and new mom, passionate about creating initiation-based educational programs for kids of all ages.

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Eza is a creative marketer whose passion for intentional communities began through attending transformational festivals and discovering alternative ways of living. She lived in an intentional community in Santa Cruz, California, where she began hosting her own community events. Throughout her career, she has supported nonprofits with marketing and event production, driven by her passion for social justice and her desire to create a healthier, more sustainable world. Now based in Boulder, CO, she continues to support community projects and meaningful causes. In her free time, she loves hiking, producing music, and practicing yoga.

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Kim has been an active member of the FIC team for over a decade. Having held many different roles over the year, she now serves as the executive director. Kim 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. She is currently residing in Bloomington, Indiana.

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Kim worked as a Certified Public Accountant in San Antonio, TX before moving to Northeast Missouri in 2005. She is a founding member of Red Earth Farms, a co-homesteading community, and lives there on a homestead of 12.6 acres named Dandelion, an egalitarian-style sub-community based on the ideals of simple-living, permaculture, feminism, and open kind communication. She works part-time doing accounting work for the FIC, GEN-US and some local non-profits. Kim likes to be the change she wishes to see and aims to have a lifestyle such that if everyone on Earth was living this way there would be plenty for all.

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Rodrigo Braga (33), Computer Engineer, traveled for 3 years exploring intentional communities and regenerative projects. He volunteered in the European and Latin American ecovillage network. He lives in Serra Grande, Bahia, Brazil and works as IT Director at the Foundation for Intentional Communities and is part of the Coordination Circle of the Global Ecovillage Network. He is also a Sociocracy facilitator, and his areas of interest are: project management, self-management, health of body and mind, agroecology, ecosystem restoration, nonviolent communication and self-development.

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Sabrina strongly believes that community building is no longer an option during these times of extreme polarization, oppression and disconnection. She uses her background in yoga, Thai Yoga Massage, grief-tending, community singing and ritual to help build greater collective capacity to identify, presence, and release trauma and isolating emotions like anger and grief.  She believes that the work of healing our collective trauma is most effectively done in community. She is loyal to upholding a posture of curiosity for humanity, frequently inquiring with her personal mantra, “How do we work with this?” 

Sabrina cares deeply about the future of the global intentional communities movement, seeing it as one of the paths toward creating a culture that is dependent on and propelled by collaboration and cooperation. 

Sabrina is a world traveler with a background in nonprofit leadership and operations management. She currently resides in Eugene, Oregon but considers herself to be on a “perpetual intentional communities tour”.

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Christoph has been living in communities most of his life. After over 30 years in a catholic
spiritual community, he co-founded a residential cooperative with about 400 members in
three different places in southern Bavaria. He’s a software and financial professional and
started a company which builds insurance solutions for the uninsured in Sub-Saharan Africa
and Southeast Asia. He’s interested in all forms of community life and alternative economic
models and the commons. Christoph is married and a father of three.

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Crystal is a North Carolina native active in the cohousing and polyamorous communities. An engineer turned educator, she speaks and writes about ways communities can be more welcoming to people of all kinds of backgrounds. Crystal is the website editor for Black & Poly, an organization promoting healthy polyamorous relationships for people of color. She also serves on the Editorial Review Board of Communities Magazine published by the Global Ecovillage Network-United States. Her book The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization will be published in late 2020.

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Dave Booda is a writer, musician and social entrepreneur. He’s the co-founder of IntimacyFest and has led over 300 workshops on connection, touch and relationship. He has consulted for and facilitated experiences for companies, retreats and conferences in the areas of group cohesion, creativity and communication. He has published over 200 essays for boodaism.com, and played over 1000 shows as a touring singer/songwriter. He is a former Naval Officer and currently lives at the Emerald Village in San Diego, California with his wife Vicki, and their dog Thanos.

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Harvey is a cofounder (1974) of Dunmire Hollow Community, and helped reinvigorate the FIC in the mid-80s, serving on FIC’s board over 30 years, as well as on several committees. He is past president of the Communal Studies Association. He owns a custom woodworking business, and serves the Waynesboro community as high school soccer coach. He and his wife Dorie grow organic fruits and vegetables in their garden. He enjoys soccer, bicycling, and playing harmonica. He hosts community visitors, touring bicyclists, and SERVAS travelers, giving them a glimpse of a more community based lifestyle.

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For well over a decade, Ivy has been passionately involved in curating, fostering, managing, and actively involved in a variety of intentional communities across the U.S. and Europe. She is a serial entrepreneur and flight attendant currently living in both Philadelphia and Thessaloniki, Greece. She enjoys personal development of all kinds, learning new languages, cooking/baking, reading, and living her way into life’s big questions. Her “why” is about creating a sense of communion with people around how we develop into better human beings.

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Jonas has been interested in community living since he was 18. He spent time in ecovillages such as Auroville in India and lived for eight years in a small intentional community in Italy, growing food and organizing retreats. He serves as trustee and treasurer for the Global Ecovillage Network and currently lives in San Francisco, California. He and his wife Kristina love to travel, sing medicine songs, cook Italian food, practice acro-yoga, and spend quality time with their friends.

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Marty has lived most of his adult life in intentional community. He was a long term member of the Kerista commune in San Francisco where he introduced income sharing and was a key member of their business, Abacus, Inc., a major player in bringing Apple computers to both personal and business environments. After the commune dissolved in 1991 he was a co-founder of the Network for a New Culture. He has lived at Shannon Farm community since 2001 where he is an active gardener, works on process, plays poker with friends, and indulges in exploring a variety of interests. He has been on the FIC board for 22 years.

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