Staff

John Emmeus Davisis a co-founder of Burlington Associates in Community Development, a national consulting cooperative. He was on the staff of the Institute for Community Economics from 1981 to 1985 and later served for ten years as the housing director for the City of Burlington, Vermont (under Mayor Bernie Sanders). He co-authored the federal definition of a CLT that was enacted into U.S. law in 1992.

Greg Rosenberg is a founder of both the National CLT Network and the CLT Academy, Greg served as the first Academy Director through 2011. Prior to coming to the CLT Network, he was the Executive Director of the Madison Area CLT, where he developed Troy Gardens, an urban ecovillage project featuring a working farm, community gardens, a restored prairie, and a mixed-income cohousing project.

Line Algoed is an urban anthropologist whose research explores processes of gentrification and displacements in informal settlements in Latin America. Her research focuses on collective forms of land ownership, and how these forms protect informal communities from gentrification while promoting participation in neighbourhood improvement and local economic development. She is presently a PhD researcher at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research (Belgium).