Want to join us? The Council is open to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Individuals can join on their own or as a representative of a community. Communities that wish to join must assign a BIPOC representative to join the Council.
BIPOC Council Membership Process
- Join the BIPOC Council Google Group to receive email updates for the Council. Potential members can request to join. Click here to join the Group.
- Review the documents linked in the group such as the BIPOC Council Agenda or other meeting minutes.
- Ask questions during Council meetings or through the Google Group.
- Attend a Council meeting or subcommittee meeting or participate in an offline conversation to remain an active member.
Council Board Members
Zarinah Agnew, Co-President
Studying, building & supporting experimental commons and autonomous communities. Related endeavors that might be of interest here include – Haight St Commons – a Bay Area collective of around 70 intentional community houses that brings together people from different co-living spaces and helps them cross-pollinate, curate open-source resources, guides and financial models to help others get set up, District Commons – a non-profit geared to support experimental commoning across the globe, and The Second Life Project – building intentional communities centered around the needs and wisdoms of the formerly incarcerated.
Crystal Byrd Farmer, Co-President
Crystal Byrd Farmer is an organizer and speaker in the intentional communities movement. She serves as Co-Director with the Foundation for Intentional Communities and is on the Editorial Review Board of Communities Magazine published by the Global Ecovillage Network-United States. She also serves as Co-President for the BIPOC Intentional Community Council. In 2020 she published The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization. Crystal is passionate about encouraging people to change their perspectives on diversity, relationships, and the world.
Hayley Feinberg, Secretary
Raymund Lew, Co-Treasurer
Aitalohi Amaize, Co-Treasurer
Aleta Toure’
Aleta Toure’ a homeschooling mother, liberation organizer/community strategist and worker-owned cooperative member with Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative, a co-lead for Just Recovery through the Climate Justice Alliance. Aleta has six documentary films on PBS/WFSB -TV, The first being “Eyes On the Prize II Documentary Film and together their cooperative members will be doing organizer services and products, which will include the film documentary “Reviving the Black Cooperative Movement.”
Dr. Myra Miller
LaRahna Hughes
Sister Maria Muhammad
Council Members
Organizations
Baldwin House Community Collective
B2tB community
Casa Sabera of the Life Center Association; Gente de Tierra
Deepstep Collective
District Commons
Ekaha Village
Emergent Phoenix
Endue Enterprises Inc.
The Freedom Georgia Initiative
Grandmothers’ Village Project
Green Horizons
Indigenous Mothers Community Land Trust
Kerawa Village at Rancho Spondylus
Let’s Be Whole
Moonseed
Nature Bliss
Nawaya Village
OurSpace World, Inc.
Our Collective Power
Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative
Paradise East Cohousing
People of Color Sustainable Housing Network
Ráithold Cooperative Union
Ravenswood
Regenerative Institute of Community Education’s: Intergenerational Land Stewardship for Sustainable Community Development
Sankofa Village Arkansas
Serenity Solidarity
Shiloh Divine Farms
Soul Sanctuary
Stellar Roots Coop
Tender Care Farm
Together for Nature
Willowhaven Society
Individuals
Zarinah Agnew
Arcadian Barrett
Michael Bonilla Del Rio
Brandy Brooks
Francis Burroughs
Katia Carranza
Hoiyee Cheung
Helena Cragg
LesleyAnne Crosby
Rev Dele
Binta Dixon
Crystal Byrd Farmer
Steve Fuji
LaRahna Hughes
Christina Hylton
LaQuinta S Jackson
Danielle Jones
Raymund Lew
Donnie Austin Livingston
Porchea Octavia McGuire
Ashley D. Mocorro Powell
Alyssa Moncure
Kirah “Layla” Monroe
Angela Moon
kaamilah muhammad milton
Evvie Ormon
Leonardo Æshwa Rainbow Dragon
Rev. Dr. Sandy Range
Syreeta Sevé
Ashley Scott
Muirén Ní Sídach
Alina Talladen
Aleta Toure
Whitney Tymas
Ericka Williams Rodriguez
Queenmother Nina Womack
Christine Wyche