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 new book, Building Belonging: Your Guide to Starting a Residential Intentional Community, was released in May 2023.

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 lives with her partner and a couple of very fluffy four-leggeds. 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 is a leading consultant in the field of intentional communities. She’s the founder of CommunityFinders, offering programs to help people join and start residential communities. She’s also the founder of Ecovillage Tours, bringing people on inspirational journeys to regenerative communities around the world. She has visited more than 150 intentional communities globally, including the Vermont ecovillage where she lives in her self-built passive solar home. 

Formerly a Co-Director, Cynthia is a partner and educator with the Foundation for Intentional Community. She’s a former trustee of the Global Ecovillage Network and former Director of the youth ecovillage network, NextGEN North America. She holds a degree in Sustainability from Goddard College, as well as certificates in Permaculture and Ecovillage Design, and Yoga Teacher Training.

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, then managing the bookstore. Kim is a member of Sandhill Farm, serves on the board for Red Earth Farms, both neighboring communities to Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in northeast Missouri. She’s dedicated to the re-imagination of 50 year-old Sandhill Farm and also strengthening the wider community in her region. When not behind the computer, she is often found in her gardens, walking her two dogs, or crafting something by hand.