Dave Smith is an affordable housing campaigner and practitioner, based in London, England. Working first as a Community Organizer in the city’s east end, from 2009 – 2014 he served as the founding Executive Director of the London Community Land Trust, which today is the largest CLT in United Kingdom. He has represented CLTs at meetings across Europe, the United States and at the UN. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.
Bonnie Acker is a visual artist and community activist who has lived in Burlington, Vermont since 1986. Her drawings and cut-paper images have illustrated a number of books, including Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered, The Community Land Trust Handbook, The Community Land Trust Reader, and On Common Ground. Since 1994, she has served on the board of the Intervale Community Farm Cooperative and has spent the last ten years working with the Burlington School Food Project, sharing food, art, and gardening adventures with students in the public schools.