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-This is an *interim* team that is currently holding the GTA process to enable the weaving of alternatives. The team as a collective or as individuals doesn'​t hold any centralised power.+# Facilitation Team
  
-## Core members+This is an *interim* team, formed by 20 persons currently, that is currently holding the GTA process to enable the weaving of alternatives. The team as a collective or as individuals doesn'​t hold any centralised power. 
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 **Alex Jensen**: He has worked in the US and India, where he coordinates Local Futures’ Ladakh Project. ​ He has worked with cultural affirmation and hhe active in environmental health/​anti-waste and degrowth movements. **Alex Jensen**: He has worked in the US and India, where he coordinates Local Futures’ Ladakh Project. ​ He has worked with cultural affirmation and hhe active in environmental health/​anti-waste and degrowth movements.
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 **Ashish Kothari**: Founder-member of Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh. He has (co)authored or (co)edited over 30 books, and helps coordinate the Vikalp Sangam and Radical Ecological Democracy processes. **Ashish Kothari**: Founder-member of Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh. He has (co)authored or (co)edited over 30 books, and helps coordinate the Vikalp Sangam and Radical Ecological Democracy processes.
  
-**Brandon Liu**: Originally ​from the US and based in India, he has worked in global health and technology and is currently focused on communicating radical alternatives to climate change.+**Carlos Tornel**: is a Mexican researcher and activist. His work focuses on the pluriversal possibilities emerging ​from other energy relationalities and the struggles against the so-called "​energy transition" ​and the expansion of extractivism/​green capitalism.
  
-**Clare Westwood**: she holds an MBA and has had extensive experience ​in the areas of food, agriculture,​ biosafety, food sovereignty, and climate change resilience, mainly through working with NGOs serving poor rural communities across Asia.+**Christine Dann**: is a New Zealand writer ​and eco-gardener who has been active ​in feminist, peace and green movements since the 1970s. This has led to her developing an '​alternatives'​ world view which is now informed by degrowthdecolonial ​and indigenous perspectives.
  
-**Coumba Toure**: Coordinator for Africans Rising for peace justice ​and dignity ​based in DakarShe has more than twenty years of experience working with organizationsalso a writer ​and a storyteller.+**Eliana N’Zualo**: is a feminist organizer ​and storyteller ​based in Maputo, Mozambique but creating impact all over the continentHer writing ​has been published in MozambiqueBrazil ​and South Africa. She is moved by her deep commitment to African Feminist Principles and Practices.
  
-**Enric Duran**: Catalan ​activist ​involved in grassroot movements since 1999 was involved in People Global ActionFocused in developing cooperative ecosystems as alternative to the capitalist system and Nation-state.+**Franco Augusto**: Social ​activist, ​unprofessionalized intellectual,​ deschooled father, co-creator many of open collaborative projects and documentalist of alternatives around the planet, collaborating with processes of social transformation for more than 20 years now.
  
-**Fatma Alloo**: Founder journalist of Tanzania Media Women'​s Association ​(TAMWAsince 1988As a pan African activist she also founded FEMNET ​and Zanzibar Int'l Film Festival (ZIFF)She has participated ​in many advocacy events at grassroots and international level.+**Lebohang Liepollo Pheko**: Activist scholar, public intellectual,​ Decolonial Afrikan(istfeminist currently exploring alternatives to GDP, ‘post covid’ economics using an intersectional lensWorked ​and lived across several countries building solidarity and making good troubleExploring healing poetry ​in my work.
  
-**Gustavo Esteva**: A grassroots activist and public intellectualHe participates ​in many localnational ​and international organizations,​ networks and movements.+**Lina Álvarez Villarreal**: is Colombian activist researcherShe is interested ​in unveiling the practices/​knowledges that give existence to a politics of an inhabited earth, and in contributing to weave a dialogue between those geo-historical practices. She is currently teaching political theory at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá.
  
-**Injairu Kulundu**: South Africa ​based social practitionerlyricistvocalist ​and researcher interested in decolonial ​ social experiments that embrace transgressive learning and attune to the emerging songs lines of alternative cultures that are moving towards a future worthy of their longing+**Madhuresh Kumar:** is an Indian activist-researcher currently ​based in France and been part of anti-globalisation and climate justice struggles. He writes regularly on people’s resistancemovement dynamics, and development policy matters. Earlier, he was NAPM India'​s (National Alliance ​of People’s Movements) national coordinator till 2018 and an elected national convener till 2021. 
  
-**Itzel Farías**: Researcher of unschooling processes in Mexicofounder and active member of networks of learning and alternatives to educationcollaborator in Unitierra OaxacaMilpa and Crianza Mutua. +**Marina Sitrin**: is a mothermilitantdreamerteacher ​and studentShe writes about and participates ​in societies in movement. Based in the US where she now teaches sociology at Binghamton Universityshe has lived in Latin America, ​the Caribbean ​and Europe, where she continues collaborations.
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-**John Holloway**: Teaches ​in the posgrado de sociología ​in the Benemérita Universidad Autónomade PueblaMexico. Spends his time looking for hope in a hopeless world. This may result ​in the publication of a book to complement *Change the World without taking Power* ​and *Crack Capitalism*.+
  
 **Marta Musić**: A decolonial, feminist activist-researcher. Her work as a transnational movement organizer mainly consists of building bridges between struggles, movements and initiatives and creating networks of solidarity. **Marta Musić**: A decolonial, feminist activist-researcher. Her work as a transnational movement organizer mainly consists of building bridges between struggles, movements and initiatives and creating networks of solidarity.
  
-**Patricia Botero**: Academic and researcher from socioterritorial movements and collective actionshe writes collective biographies with persons ​and communities in resistances+**Mauricio del Villar Zamacona**: son, partner, father, and friend. During the last 20 years he has shared life with different ​communities ​of Mexico, learning and living the daily life through planting, preparing food, participating ​in celebrations,​ and strengthening social economy practices.
  
-**Shrishtee Bajpai**: Activist-researcher ​based in Pune, India and member of Kalpavriksh. Her research is focussed on documenting,​ analysing, and networking alternatives to development. She helps in coordinating the Vikalp Sangam (alternative confluence) process in India.+**Raquel Castillo**: is an activist, a lifelong learner and an ardent believer in genuine solidarity. ​ She works with the Movement for Alternatives and Solidarity in Southeast Asia, advocating for alternative regionalism grounded on people’s struggles and alternative practices, and is Lead Convenor of Solidarity for People’s Education and Lifelong Learning in the Philippines,​ which challenges the neoliberal concept of human capital development and its political economy. She has inadvertently found herself cast in coalition building roles time and again, though perhaps she would prefer to delve more into art and the culture of solidarity and resistance. 
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 +**Simon Ndonco Mitambo**: Born and raised in Tharaka indigenous community, Simon is an Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner and an initiated teacher of the ancient wisdom of Tharaka people. He is founder of SALT and a nature-based school in Kenya; The Kithino Learning Centre; a centre for stimulating,​ awakening and regenerating bio-cultural diversity. He is currently the Regional Programs Coordinator for African Biodiversity Network (ABN). 
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 +**Shrishtee Bajpai**: Activist-researcher ​from India and member of Kalpavriksh. Her research is focussed on documenting,​ analysing, and networking ​on alternatives to development. She helps in coordinating the Vikalp Sangam (alternative confluence) process in India.
  
 **Vasna Ramasar**: Academic and activist from South Africa living and working in Sweden. She has always been involved in environmental justice, politics of environment and alternatives to development. **Vasna Ramasar**: Academic and activist from South Africa living and working in Sweden. She has always been involved in environmental justice, politics of environment and alternatives to development.
  
 +**Xochitl Leyva Solano**: Activist researcher. She works to create other possible worlds hand in hand with women, young people of the peoples in resistance, both indigenous and Afro-descendant,​ as well as those of gender diversity.
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 +## Ancestral members in spirit
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 +**Gustavo Esteva** (1936-2022):​ A grassroots activist and a public intellectual. He participated in many local, national and international organizations,​ networks and movements. He was one of the founders and initiators of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives. ​
  
-### Former members and contributors+## Former members and contributors
  
-We appreciate and recognize the following former members of the core team that have offered their time and energy to our joint adventure: **Valiana Aguilar**, **Ana Cecilia Galindo Diego**, **Sujatha Padmanabhan**,​ **Milind Wani** and **Pablo Campoy**. We also acknowledge **Daniela Anaya**, who helped to create the first version of this website.+We appreciate and recognize the following former members of the Facilitation Team that have offered their time and energy to our joint adventure: ​**Ananeza Aban**, **Rafael Vicente Dimalanta**,​ **Arturo Guerrero Osorio**, **Patricia Botero**, **Injairu Kulundu**, **Nishara Rajah Naidoo**, **Enric Duran**, **Coumba Toure**, ​**Valiana Aguilar**, **Ana Cecilia Galindo Diego**, **Sujatha Padmanabhan**,​ **Milind Wani** and **Pablo Campoy**. We also acknowledge **Daniela Anaya**, who helped to create the first version of this website.