Staff

Susan Witt, Executive Director Susan has served as executive director of the E. F. Schumacher Society in Great Barrington, Massachusetts since its founding in 1980. She created the SHARE micro-credit program, founded the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires, champions the use of local currencies, and actively serves her local community. Her essays on regional economics appear in a variety of books and publications.

Christopher Lindstrom, Special Projects Coordinator Chris has worked for the Schumacher Society since 2003. He organized the Society's June 2004 conference "Local Currencies in Twenty-First Century: Understanding Money, Building Local Economies, Renewing Community." The conference brought together 300 local currency theorists and activists from 17 countries in a seminal gathering. Chris is a founding board member of BerkShares, a local currency for the Southern Berkshire region. He organizes and presents at conferences on the subject of transforming money. A graduate of Simon's Rock College of Bard, he grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sarah Hearn Sarah Hearn moved to the Berkshires from her home in New York City in January of 2008. She came to join a group of her peers inspired by the social and economic thinking of Rudolf Steiner to form Think OutWord, a peer-led training in social threefolding.

Interns

Jan Rejeski joined the Schumacher Society for part of Summer 2008. Jan has done exemplary work for the Society researching and writing grant proposals.

Amalia has recently joined the Schumacher Society team. She is undertaking the task of organizing and cataloguing E. F. Schumacher's personal archives. Her interests include sustainable food economies and agricultural communities.