Rebecca Bauen
Communities of Practice Program Director

Rebecca Bauen directs DAWI’s Fellowship Program for Worker Coop Developers. As Executive Director of WAGES in Oakland, California from l999-2003, Rebecca directed the organization toward scaling green cleaning cooperatives.  Prior to this, she supported the start-up of an interpreting coop and led a workplace conversion project of a union cabinet making company in Washington State.  She has taught courses on worker cooperatives and popular education at UC Berkeley and The Evergreen State College. She has published multiple articles and reports on community development and cooperatives for GEO, the ICA Group and Dollars & Sense. She has participated in study trips of Mondragon, Emilia Romagna, Manitoba, and the Argentine recuperated factories. Rebecca holds a M.P.A. with a focus on regional economic development and environmental sustainability.

Cooperative Developer

Joe Marraffino is a Cooperative Developer for the Democracy at work Institute, focusing on rural areas of the Northeast.  He became a baker at cooperatively-owned Arizmendi Bakery in San Francisco in 2003, and in 2007 joined the Arizmendi Association’s Development and Support Cooperative, providing bookkeeping and training services a growing network of businesses.  In 2010 Joe helped launched two new bakeries for the Association. After moving to Upstate New York, Joe served as the Finance Manager for GreenStar Cooperative Market for three years, and was a founding organizer of the New York Cooperative Network. He joined DAWI in 2015.  Joe has a Master’s degree in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Communities from the New College of California. He maintains a library of worker cooperative literature and videos at American.coop.