Jess Rimington

Co-founder, Futuring Collective

Co-author of Beloved Economies: Transforming How We Work

Jess is a next-economy practitioner, scholar and activist. With two decades of experience as a small-business practitioner and inclusive-economy strategist, she advises organizations and businesses in efforts to transform their work practices to be in alignment with social justice. Jess’s work focuses on awakening the economic imagination of individuals and groups to step out of business as usual and into more just and resilient economies, one practical step at a time.

Her practice is informed by her experience leading three nonprofit organizations, place-based activism for economic justice, advising philanthropy and directing capital toward enterprises and groups building an inclusive economy, and running a small consultancy business. In her roles as an Executive Director and Managing Director, Jess built cross-cultural, global staff teams with innovative work cultures rooted in post-capitalism.

She served as a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Global Projects Center and co-director of the Beloved Economies research initiative, learning alongside more than sixty organizations and companies that were boldly breaking out of business as usual and generating forms of success that audaciously prioritized well-being, meaning, connection, and resilience. Based on this research, Jess co-authored Beloved Economies: Transforming How We Work (Aug 2022) which was shortlisted for the 2022 Porchlight Business Book Awards.

Jess is co-founder of the Futuring Collective which supports business leaders and culture-makers to build wildly imaginative futures rooted in well-being for all. Jess is also an Executive Producer of the scripted, speculative fiction podcast The Light Ahead.

Jess is driven by her belief that our collective liberation is inextricably bound with one another.

Joanna Levitt Cea

Co-author of Beloved Economies: Transforming how we work

Co-director, 2019-2023 Beloved Economies research and narrative-change initiative

Joanna is an advocate, researcher and facilitator for funding and economic practices that lift up the well-being of all.

She is the co-author of the collaborative book, Beloved Economies: Transforming how we work, which was shortlisted for the Porchlight 2022 Business Book of the Year award, and co-director of the 2019-2023 Beloved Economies research and narrative-change initiative.

In 2015-2019, as the founding director of the Buen Vivir Fund at Thousand Currents, Joanna facilitated a co-design process with grassroots organizations from Latin America, Asia and Africa and progressive investors to create a groundbreaking model for investment based in grassroots practices for building community wealth, well-being, and power.

From 2006-2014, Joanna served as Executive Director of International Accountability Project. Under her IAP leadership, IAP won precedent-setting policies for ensuring citizen participation and human rights safeguards at global financial institutions including the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, and Asian Development Bank.

Prior to joining IAP, Joanna worked as a Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador with the Centro de Derechos Económicos y Sociales, and as a John Gardner Fellow with the Center for International Environmental Law, in Washington D.C. She is a Board member of International Accountability Project and a member of the Kaulele Advisory Committee with INPEACE, the Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture.

Joanna holds a BA from Stanford University.