{"id":146,"date":"2026-08-17T19:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/?page_id=146"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:35:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commoningstandard.org\/?page_id=146","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style> body.page-id-146 .content-container.site-container{max-width:none;padding:0}body.page-id-146 #primary{width:100%;margin:0}body.page-id-146 .site-main{margin:0}body.page-id-146 article.entry{margin:0;border-radius:0;box-shadow:none;background:transparent}body.page-id-146 .entry-content-wrap{padding:0}body.page-id-146 .entry-content{margin:0}\nbody:has(.tcs-about) .entry-hero.page-hero-section{display:none}.tcs-about{--green:#445A46;--deep:#294D36;--sage:#AEB99B;--cream:#F7F4EE;--soft:#ECEBDD;--line:#D9D5CD;--ink:#4A3C33;--accent:#D94C32;font-family:'Source Sans 3',Arial,sans-serif;color:var(--ink)}.tcs-about *{box-sizing:border-box}.tcs-about h1,.tcs-about h2,.tcs-about h3{font-family:'Josefin Sans',Arial,sans-serif;color:var(--green);margin-top:0}.tcs-about a{text-decoration:none}.tcs-about-shell{width:min(1160px,calc(100% - 48px));margin:auto}.tcs-about-kicker{color:var(--accent);font-size:14px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.13em;text-transform:uppercase}.tcs-about-hero{position:relative;overflow:hidden;background:var(--cream);padding:94px 0}.tcs-about figure.tcs-about-photo{margin:0;height:clamp(280px,34vw,430px);overflow:hidden;background:var(--sage)}.tcs-about-photo img{display:block;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;object-position:center 52%}.tcs-about-hero-grid{display:grid;grid-template-columns:1fr .85fr;gap:70px;align-items:center}.tcs-about h1{font-size:61px;line-height:1.07;margin:18px 0 24px}.tcs-about-lead{font-size:21px;line-height:1.67;margin:0;max-width:650px}.tcs-about-symbol{position:relative;min-height:470px;display:grid;place-items:center}.tcs-about-symbol:before,.tcs-about-symbol:after{content:'';position:absolute;border-radius:50%;border:2px solid var(--sage)}.tcs-about-symbol:before{width:440px;height:440px;opacity:.42}.tcs-about-symbol:after{width:330px;height:330px;border-color:var(--line);opacity:.9}.tcs-about-symbol img{position:relative;z-index:2;width:230px;height:230px;object-fit:contain}.tcs-about-symbol:before,.tcs-about-symbol:after{display:none}.tcs-about-symbol svg{position:relative;z-index:2;width:115%!important;max-width:680px;transform:translateX(3%)}.tcs-about-purpose{padding:78px 0;background:#fff}.tcs-about-purpose-grid{display:grid;grid-template-columns:.75fr 1.25fr;gap:70px}.tcs-about-purpose h2{font-size:43px;line-height:1.18;margin:0}.tcs-about-purpose p{font-size:18px;line-height:1.75;margin:0 0 18px}.tcs-about-dimensions{padding:76px 0;background:var(--cream)}.tcs-about-center{text-align:center;max-width:780px;margin:0 auto 42px}.tcs-about-center h2{font-size:43px;margin:16px 0}.tcs-about-center p{font-size:18px;line-height:1.65}.tcs-about-grid{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(4,1fr);gap:18px}.tcs-about-card{background:#fff;border:1px solid var(--line);border-radius:9px;padding:27px}.tcs-about-card img{width:62px;height:62px;object-fit:contain;margin-bottom:15px}.tcs-about-card h3{font-size:24px;margin:0 0 8px}.tcs-about-card strong{display:block;color:var(--accent);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:10px}.tcs-about-card p{font-size:15px;line-height:1.55;margin:0}.tcs-about-living{padding:78px 0;background:#fff}.tcs-about-living-grid{display:grid;grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr;gap:34px}.tcs-about-living-copy h2{font-size:42px;line-height:1.18;margin-bottom:18px}.tcs-about-living-copy p{font-size:18px;line-height:1.72}.tcs-about-principles{display:grid;grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr;gap:15px}.tcs-about-principle{background:var(--cream);border-radius:8px;padding:22px}.tcs-about-principle b{display:block;color:var(--green);font-family:'Josefin Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:19px;margin-bottom:6px}.tcs-about-principle span{font-size:14px;line-height:1.45}.tcs-about-for{padding:70px 0;background:var(--soft)}.tcs-about-for-grid{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(3,1fr);gap:22px}.tcs-about-for h2{font-size:40px;grid-column:1\/-1;margin-bottom:8px}.tcs-about-for-card{background:#fff;border:1px solid var(--line);border-radius:8px;padding:27px}.tcs-about-for-card h3{font-size:23px;margin-bottom:10px}.tcs-about-for-card p{font-size:15px;line-height:1.58;margin:0}.tcs-about-board{padding:78px 0;background:#fff}.tcs-about-board-head{display:grid;grid-template-columns:.75fr 1.25fr;gap:70px;margin-bottom:38px}.tcs-about-board-head h2{font-size:42px;line-height:1.18;margin:0}.tcs-about-board-head p{font-size:17px;line-height:1.68;margin:0}.tcs-about-board-grid{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(3,1fr);gap:22px}.tcs-about-person{border:1px solid var(--line);border-radius:9px;background:var(--cream);overflow:hidden}.tcs-about-person-photo{position:relative;aspect-ratio:4\/3;overflow:hidden;background:linear-gradient(145deg,#E4E5DC,#F7F4EE);display:grid;place-items:center;color:var(--sage);font-size:54px}.tcs-about-person-photo img{position:absolute;inset:0;display:block;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;object-position:center 34%}.tcs-about-person-link{display:inline-block;margin-top:15px;color:var(--green)!important;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.045em;text-decoration:none}.tcs-about-person-link:hover{text-decoration:underline}.tcs-about-person-body{padding:24px}.tcs-about-person h3{font-size:24px;margin:0 0 5px}.tcs-about-person-role{color:var(--accent);font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase}.tcs-about-person p{font-size:16px;line-height:1.62;margin:14px 0 0}.tcs-about-board-note{font-size:13px;color:#756A61;font-style:italic;margin-top:22px}.tcs-about-staff{padding:78px 0;background:var(--cream)}.tcs-about-staff .tcs-about-person{background:#fff}.tcs-about-cta{padding:92px 32px 32px;background:var(--green);color:#fff;text-align:center}.tcs-about-cta-grid{display:block;max-width:860px}.tcs-about-cta h2{color:#fff;font-size:48px;line-height:1.12;margin:0 0 24px}.tcs-about-cta p{font-size:20px;line-height:1.65;color:var(--cream);margin:0 auto 32px}.tcs-about-btn{display:inline-block;background:var(--accent);color:#fff!important;border-radius:6px;padding:15px 30px;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase}@media(max-width:900px){.tcs-about-board-head{grid-template-columns:1fr;gap:22px}.tcs-about-board-grid{grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr}.tcs-about-hero-grid,.tcs-about-purpose-grid,.tcs-about-living-grid,.tcs-about-cta-grid{grid-template-columns:1fr}.tcs-about-grid{grid-template-columns:repeat(2,1fr)}.tcs-about-symbol{min-height:390px}.tcs-about-for-grid{grid-template-columns:1fr}.tcs-about-for h2{grid-column:auto}}@media(max-width:560px){.tcs-about-board-grid{grid-template-columns:1fr}.tcs-about-shell{width:min(100% - 32px,1160px)}.tcs-about h1{font-size:43px}.tcs-about-symbol:before{width:330px;height:330px}.tcs-about-symbol:after{width:245px;height:245px}.tcs-about-symbol img{width:170px;height:170px}.tcs-about-grid,.tcs-about-principles{grid-template-columns:1fr}}\n.tcs-about-staff .tcs-about-board-grid{grid-template-columns:repeat(2,1fr)}@media(max-width:900px){.tcs-about-staff .tcs-about-board-grid{grid-template-columns:1fr}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"tcs-about\"><section class=\"tcs-about-hero\"><div class=\"tcs-about-shell tcs-about-hero-grid\"><div><div class=\"tcs-about-kicker\">About the work<\/div><h1>Commoning is how we learn to hold power together.<\/h1><p class=\"tcs-about-lead\"><strong>Enabling self-governance at scale.<\/strong> The Commoning Standard is an open, living framework for people, organizations, institutions, communities, and networks seeking more relational, regenerative, and accountable ways to govern themselves and steward what they share.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-symbol\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 640 640\" role=\"img\" aria-labelledby=\"tcs-system-title tcs-system-desc\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:auto;overflow:visible\">\n<title id=\"tcs-system-title\">The Commoning Standard living system<\/title>\n<desc id=\"tcs-system-desc\">Knowledge, Practices, Skills and Traits arranged clockwise around the approved Commoning Standard logo.<\/desc>\n<defs>\n <filter id=\"node-shadow-2\" x=\"-30%\" y=\"-30%\" width=\"160%\" height=\"160%\"><feDropShadow dx=\"0\" dy=\"5\" stdDeviation=\"7\" flood-color=\"#445A46\" flood-opacity=\".11\"\/><\/filter>\n <clipPath id=\"approved-icon-crop\"><circle cx=\"320\" cy=\"320\" r=\"108\"\/><\/clipPath>\n <radialGradient id=\"leaf-center-glow\"><stop offset=\"0\" stop-color=\"#FFFFFF\" stop-opacity=\".92\"\/><stop offset=\".38\" stop-color=\"#FFFFFF\" stop-opacity=\".58\"\/><stop offset=\"1\" stop-color=\"#FFFFFF\" stop-opacity=\"0\"\/><\/radialGradient>\n <style>\n  .station-circle{fill:#F7F4EE;stroke:#D9D5CD;stroke-width:2}\n  .station-icon{fill:none;stroke:#445A46;stroke-width:3.2;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round}\n  .station-name{fill:#445A46;font-family:'Josefin Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.5px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.035em}\n  .station-sub{fill:#4A3C33;font-family:'Source Sans 3',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.5px}\n <\/style>\n<\/defs>\n\n<!-- four broad interwoven loops, closely following the original field-guide diagram -->\n<circle cx=\"320\" cy=\"224\" r=\"166\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#AEB99B\" stroke-width=\"7\" opacity=\".40\"\/>\n<circle cx=\"416\" cy=\"320\" r=\"166\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#D9D5CD\" stroke-width=\"7\" opacity=\".72\"\/>\n<circle cx=\"320\" cy=\"416\" r=\"166\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#AEB99B\" stroke-width=\"7\" opacity=\".40\"\/>\n<circle cx=\"224\" cy=\"320\" r=\"166\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#D9D5CD\" stroke-width=\"7\" opacity=\".72\"\/>\n<circle cx=\"320\" cy=\"320\" r=\"206\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#667C5C\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" opacity=\".22\"\/>\n<path d=\"M146 320C146 224 224 146 320 146s174 78 174 174-78 174-174 174-174-78-174-174Z\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#D9D5CD\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" opacity=\".55\" transform=\"rotate(45 320 320)\"\/>\n\n<!-- approved braid\/leaf logo, cropped from the exact logo file already used by the site -->\n<g filter=\"url(#node-shadow-2)\">\n <circle cx=\"320\" cy=\"320\" r=\"98\" fill=\"none\"\/>\n <circle cx=\"320\" cy=\"320\" r=\"15\" fill=\"url(#leaf-center-glow)\"\/>\n <image href=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TCS_Icon_Sage_Accent.png\" x=\"212\" y=\"212\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\" clip-path=\"url(#approved-icon-crop)\"\/>\n<\/g>\n\n<!-- Skills: top -->\n<g transform=\"translate(320 76)\" filter=\"url(#node-shadow-2)\">\n <circle class=\"station-circle\" r=\"77\"\/>\n <g class=\"station-icon\" transform=\"translate(-30 -56)\">\n  <circle cx=\"30\" cy=\"12\" r=\"8\"\/><circle cx=\"11\" cy=\"20\" r=\"6\"\/><circle cx=\"49\" cy=\"20\" r=\"6\"\/>\n  <path d=\"M15 50c0-11 6-18 15-18s15 7 15 18\"\/><path d=\"M-1 48c1-9 5-14 12-14 4 0 7 2 9 5\"\/><path d=\"M61 48c-1-9-5-14-12-14-4 0-7 2-9 5\"\/>\n <\/g>\n <text class=\"station-name\" text-anchor=\"middle\" y=\"29\">SKILLS<\/text>\n <text class=\"station-sub\" text-anchor=\"middle\" y=\"43\"><tspan x=\"0\">What we are able<\/tspan><tspan x=\"0\" dy=\"13\">to do<\/tspan><\/text>\n<\/g>\n\n<!-- Traits: right -->\n<g transform=\"translate(564 320)\" filter=\"url(#node-shadow-2)\">\n <circle class=\"station-circle\" r=\"77\"\/>\n <g class=\"station-icon\" transform=\"translate(-31 -57)\">\n  <path d=\"M32 11C22 1 10 16 32 33c22-17 10-32 0-22Z\"\/>\n  <path d=\"M16 46c4 0 8-6 13-6h10c5 0 5 7 0 8H29\"\/>\n  <path d=\"M13 46l11 10h17c7 0 11-3 15-8l4-5c2-3 7 0 5 3l-7 10c-4 5-10 8-18 8H22L4 53\"\/>\n <\/g>\n <text class=\"station-name\" text-anchor=\"middle\" y=\"29\">TRAITS<\/text>\n <text class=\"station-sub\" text-anchor=\"middle\" y=\"43\"><tspan x=\"0\">Who we are<\/tspan><tspan x=\"0\" dy=\"13\">becoming<\/tspan><\/text>\n<\/g>\n\n<!-- Knowledge: bottom -->\n<g transform=\"translate(320 564)\" filter=\"url(#node-shadow-2)\">\n <circle class=\"station-circle\" r=\"77\"\/>\n <g class=\"station-icon\" transform=\"translate(-29 -57)\">\n  <path d=\"M29 14C19 7 8 8 4 12v42c8-4 17-3 25 3V14Z\"\/>\n  <path d=\"M29 14c10-7 21-6 25-2v42c-8-4-17-3-25 3V14Z\"\/>\n  <path d=\"M29 14v43\"\/>\n  <path d=\"M9 18v41c7-3 13-2 20 2\"\/>\n  <path d=\"M49 18v41c-7-3-13-2-20 2\"\/>\n  <path d=\"M13 24c4-1 8 0 12 2M13 32c4-1 8 0 12 2M45 24c-4-1-8 0-12 2M45 32c-4-1-8 0-12 2\"\/>\n <\/g>\n <text class=\"station-name\" text-anchor=\"middle\" y=\"29\">KNOWLEDGE<\/text>\n <text class=\"station-sub\" text-anchor=\"middle\" y=\"49\">What we understand<\/text>\n<\/g>\n\n<!-- Practices: left -->\n<g transform=\"translate(76 320)\" filter=\"url(#node-shadow-2)\">\n <circle class=\"station-circle\" r=\"77\"\/>\n <g class=\"station-icon\" transform=\"translate(-30 -57)\">\n  <path d=\"M31 40V17\"\/>\n  <path d=\"M31 28C21 28 16 22 16 13c10 0 15 6 15 15Z\"\/>\n  <path d=\"M31 22C31 12 37 6 47 5c1 10-6 17-16 17Z\"\/>\n  <path d=\"M15 48c4 0 8-5 13-5h10c5 0 5 7 0 8h-9\"\/>\n  <path d=\"M12 48l11 9h17c7 0 11-3 15-8l4-5c2-3 7 0 5 3l-7 10c-4 5-10 8-18 8H21L4 55\"\/>\n <\/g>\n <text class=\"station-name\" text-anchor=\"middle\" y=\"29\">PRACTICES<\/text>\n <text class=\"station-sub\" text-anchor=\"middle\" y=\"49\">What we do<\/text>\n<\/g>\n<\/svg><\/div><\/div><\/section> <figure class=\"tcs-about-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/original-photo-lettering-removed.png\" alt=\"People gathered in conversation outdoors beneath trees\"><\/figure>\n<section class=\"tcs-about-purpose\"><div class=\"tcs-about-shell tcs-about-purpose-grid\"><div><div class=\"tcs-about-kicker\">Why the Standard exists<\/div><h2>Make cooperation across difference learnable and practicable.<\/h2><\/div><div><p>Many of humanity\u2019s most urgent challenges are also challenges of cooperation. Across sectors and societies, people are experimenting with governance, organizational design, commons stewardship, digital coordination, and healthy power-sharing\u2014but much of this learning remains separated by discipline, institution, technology, or mission.<\/p><p>The Commoning Standard connects these efforts in an open shared framework. It helps knowledge travel across teams, organizations, institutions, networks, and communities without prescribing one model or erasing local sovereignty.<\/p><p>Self-governance at scale does not mean centralizing control. It means strengthening our capacity to coordinate across contexts while preserving agency, relationship, and accountability.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class=\"tcs-about-dimensions\"><div class=\"tcs-about-shell\"><div class=\"tcs-about-center\"><div class=\"tcs-about-kicker\">One living system<\/div><h2>Four dimensions of commoning<\/h2><p>The framework connects what we understand, what we do, what we are able to do, and who we are becoming.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-grid\"><article class=\"tcs-about-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TCS_Icon_Knowledge.png\" alt=\"\"><h3>Knowledge<\/h3><strong>What do we understand?<\/strong><p>Research, evidence, principles, lived experience, and mental models for understanding cooperation, governance, power, and the commons.<\/p><\/article><article class=\"tcs-about-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TCS_Icon_Practices.png\" alt=\"\"><h3>Practices<\/h3><strong>What do we do?<\/strong><p>Methods, processes, governance structures, tools, and repeated actions that transform shared purpose into coordinated action.<\/p><\/article><article class=\"tcs-about-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TCS_Icon_Skills.png\" alt=\"\"><h3>Skills<\/h3><strong>What are we able to do?<\/strong><p>Listening, facilitation, collaboration, decision-making, conflict transformation, coordination, and shared stewardship.<\/p><\/article><article class=\"tcs-about-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TCS_Icon_Traits.png\" alt=\"\"><h3>Traits<\/h3><strong>Who are we becoming?<\/strong><p>Humility, courage, reciprocity, integrity, trustworthiness, and care\u2014the qualities that help healthy power endure.<\/p><\/article><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class=\"tcs-about-living\"><div class=\"tcs-about-shell tcs-about-living-grid\"><div class=\"tcs-about-living-copy\"><div class=\"tcs-about-kicker\">How the Standard develops<\/div><h2>Open orgware, governed as a commons.<\/h2><p>Organizations depend on more than software and hardware. They also need \u201corgware\u201d: the agreements, practices, processes, and human capacities that enable people to work together.<\/p><p>The Standard develops this organizational infrastructure through an ongoing cycle of convening, synthesis, application, research, and learning. Because this knowledge belongs to humanity as a whole, the people who use and contribute to it should also participate in its evolution.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-principles\"><div class=\"tcs-about-principle\"><b>Access<\/b><span>Useful across sectors, cultures, technologies, and walks of life.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-principle\"><b>Integrity<\/b><span>Trust cultivated through accountability, rigorous inquiry, and honest learning.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-principle\"><b>Alignment<\/b><span>Shared orientation that helps diverse efforts connect without erasing difference.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-principle\"><b>Continual evolution<\/b><span>Tested and renewed through practice, participation, and further research.<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class=\"tcs-about-for\"><div class=\"tcs-about-shell tcs-about-for-grid\"><h2>Who this work is for<\/h2><article class=\"tcs-about-for-card\"><h3>Organizations and institutions<\/h3><p>Businesses, cooperatives, nonprofits, universities, banks, public institutions, and associations seeking more participatory, adaptive, and accountable ways to govern.<\/p><\/article><article class=\"tcs-about-for-card\"><h3>Communities, networks, and platforms<\/h3><p>People stewarding shared resources, relationships, places, movements, digital spaces, and collective decisions.<\/p><\/article><article class=\"tcs-about-for-card\"><h3>Researchers, practitioners, and technologists<\/h3><p>People studying, building, facilitating, funding, teaching, or supporting the knowledge, tools, and infrastructure of effective self-organization.<\/p><\/article><\/div><\/section>\n<section class=\"tcs-about-board\"><div class=\"tcs-about-shell\"><div class=\"tcs-about-board-head\"><div><div class=\"tcs-about-kicker\">Guidance and stewardship<\/div><h2>Board of Advisors<\/h2><\/div><p>The Board of Advisors brings experience from research, practice, technology, institutions, and movements to help strengthen the Standard\u2019s integrity, relevance, and long-term direction.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-board-grid\"><article class=\"tcs-about-person\"><div class=\"tcs-about-person-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/liz-barry-profile.png\" alt=\"Liz Barry, Executive Director of Metagov\"><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-person-body\"><h3>Liz Barry<\/h3><div class=\"tcs-about-person-role\">Executive Director, Metagov<\/div><p>Liz Barry is Executive Director and a Research Director at Metagov. Her work focuses on self-determination, collective action, and technologies that support democratic movements. Previously, she led partnerships at the Computational Democracy Project, which she established with the creators of Polis to steward its open-source technology and methods. Liz works with facilitators, social movements, civil-society organizations, journalists, Indigenous nations, democratic governments, and peacebuilders to advance \u201clistening at scale.\u201d Her engagement with Taiwan\u2019s civic-technology community helped introduce the participatory vTaiwan process to Western audiences.<\/p><a class=\"tcs-about-person-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elizabethbarry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/article><article class=\"tcs-about-person\"><div class=\"tcs-about-person-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lauren-wood-profile-clean.png\" alt=\"Lauren Wood, Founder and Lead Consultant of Continuum Collective\"><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-person-body\"><h3>Lauren Wood<\/h3><div class=\"tcs-about-person-role\">Founder and Lead Consultant, Continuum Collective<\/div><p>Lauren Wood is the founder and lead consultant of Continuum Collective, where she supports community-centered food systems, democratic ownership, and neighborhood-led economic development. A cooperative developer based in Atlanta, Lauren works alongside communities to build practical structures for local ownership and collective power, including the development of Black-owned grocery cooperatives. Her experience includes leading the Fresh MARTA Market program, which expanded access to locally grown food through Atlanta\u2019s transit network. Lauren\u2019s work brings together cooperative development, food access, and community organizing to help residents shape and steward the institutions that affect their lives.<\/p><a class=\"tcs-about-person-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wood-laurenc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/article><article class=\"tcs-about-person\"><div class=\"tcs-about-person-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/noemi-giszpenc-source.jpg\" alt=\"No\u00e9mi Giszpenc, Executive Director of Keystone Development Center\"><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-person-body\"><h3>No\u00e9mi Giszpenc<\/h3><div class=\"tcs-about-person-role\">Executive Director, Keystone Development Center<\/div><p>No\u00e9mi Giszpenc is Executive Director of Keystone Development Center and a dedicated cooperator with more than twenty years of experience in cooperative development and democratic ownership. From 2009 through 2022, she led the Cooperative Development Institute through a period of significant growth. No\u00e9mi holds a master\u2019s degree in cooperative economic development from Southern New Hampshire University and is a certified Level II Collab Facilitator. At Keystone, she works with the organization\u2019s team to deliver high-quality services that advance cooperative development and strengthen democratically owned enterprises.<\/p><a class=\"tcs-about-person-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/noemi-giszpenc-aa48604\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/article><article class=\"tcs-about-person\"><div class=\"tcs-about-person-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/andy-crownshy.webp\" alt=\"Andy Paice, Head of Engagement at CrownShy\"><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-person-body\"><h3>Andy Paice<\/h3><div class=\"tcs-about-person-role\">Head of Engagement, CrownShy<\/div><p>Andy Paice is a facilitator and engagement designer specializing in public participation and deliberative democracy. As Head of Engagement and Facilitation at CrownShy, he connects digital tools with real-world democratic practice to support inclusive and effective citizen engagement. Andy has designed and facilitated more than a dozen citizens\u2019 assemblies, juries, and panels across the United Kingdom. He also advised the Austrian Climate Assembly on using Polis to involve thousands of people in climate dialogue. Andy serves as President of the Board of the Co-Intelligence Institute and brings extensive experience helping communities and policymakers turn dialogue into meaningful action.<\/p><a class=\"tcs-about-person-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/andypaice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/article><article class=\"tcs-about-person\"><div class=\"tcs-about-person-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2025_headshot_square.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Doug Webb\"><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-person-body\"><h3>Doug Webb<\/h3><p>Doug Webb has spent more than a decade building cooperatives, collectives, and other forms of commons, guided by a persistent question: How can we out-cooperate domination? With a background in chemistry, he brings a structural lens to complex and often chaotic circumstances\u2014revealing patterns, clarifying relationships, and refining systems. His approach is influenced by Elinor Ostrom\u2019s institutional analysis, computational theories, and historical study. Across his work, Doug explores how people can develop durable structures for cooperation, collective stewardship, and shared power.<\/p><\/div><\/article><article class=\"tcs-about-person\"><div class=\"tcs-about-person-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/greg-cassel2.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Greg Cassel\"><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-person-body\"><h3>Greg Cassel<\/h3><div class=\"tcs-about-person-role\">Founder, Inclusive Organizing<\/div><p>Greg Cassel is the founder of Inclusive Organizing and a designer of open-source tools for prosocial organizing. He specializes in consent-based governance, scalable systems, compassionate dialogue, and transformative justice. In addition to founding and stewarding InclusiveOrganizing.net, Greg has written for the P2P Foundation and contributed deeply to projects and communities including Metagov, Contributor Covenant, the Collaborative Technology Alliance, Value Flows, and the Enspiral Network.<\/p><p>Greg is also passionately devoted to organic gardening and habitat management that restores local ecosystems. Whenever he can, he enjoys exploring the Appalachian woods.<\/p><a class=\"tcs-about-person-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/greg-s-cassel-623b9369\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"tcs-about-staff\"><div class=\"tcs-about-shell\"><div class=\"tcs-about-board-head\"><div><div class=\"tcs-about-kicker\">Our team<\/div><h2>Staff<\/h2><\/div><p>The staff carries the work forward day to day through research, coordination, community building, training, and stewardship of the Standard.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-board-grid\"><article class=\"tcs-about-person\"><div class=\"tcs-about-person-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/seth-frey-ucdavis.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Seth Frey\"><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-person-body\"><h3>Seth Frey<\/h3><div class=\"tcs-about-person-role\">Co-founder, The Commoning Standard<\/div><p>Dr. Seth Frey is co-founder of The Commoning Standard and an associate professor of Communication at the University of California, Davis. He is also an affiliate of Indiana University\u2019s Ostrom Workshop and a Research Director at Metagov. Seth specializes in computational institutional science, using online communities as model systems for understanding emergent organizational phenomena and the governance of shared resources.<\/p><p>Alongside his academic work, Seth has spent twenty years organizing within the cooperative movement, developing intentional communities and helping transition them into collective ownership. He earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Informatics from Indiana University and his B.A. in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley. Previously, he worked as a behavioral economist at Disney Research within Walt Disney Imagineering. His research has appeared in PNAS, Nature Scientific Reports, and Proceedings of the Royal Society, with support from the NSF, NASA, and the Ford Foundation.<\/p><div><a class=\"tcs-about-person-link\" style=\"margin-right:16px\" href=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website \u2197<\/a><a class=\"tcs-about-person-link\" style=\"margin-right:16px\" href=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Research \u2197<\/a><a class=\"tcs-about-person-link\" style=\"margin-right:16px\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/enfascination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">X\/Twitter \u2197<\/a><a class=\"tcs-about-person-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/enfascination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article><article class=\"tcs-about-person\"><div class=\"tcs-about-person-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"object-position:22% center\" src=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/me-smiling-in-front-of-board.webp\" alt=\"Cecile Green smiling in front of a collaborative whiteboard\"><\/div><div class=\"tcs-about-person-body\"><h3>Cecile Green<\/h3><div class=\"tcs-about-person-role\">Co-founder, Round Sky Solutions and The Commoning Standard<\/div><p>Cecile Green is a visionary, entrepreneur, homesteader, and builder devoted to developing practical approaches to healthy shared power. An integral scholar-practitioner and lifelong learner, she holds a B.S. in Community Supported Agricultural Systems from UMass Amherst and brings three decades of experience in entrepreneurial environments.<\/p><p>Cecile is the innovator of Collab, an ecology of practices for effective power sharing developed through extensive research and experimentation with social power, decision-making, and organizational operations. She is the author of \u201cCollaboration that Works: A Ruthlessly Practical Handbook for a Generative World,\u201d a training manual that makes these practices accessible to organizations. Cecile co-founded the worker cooperative Round Sky Solutions and teaches in its Cooperative Leadership Certification Program. Her academic publications include \u201cThe Organizational Power Matrix: Toward a Metapraxis of Power\u201d and \u201cInstantiating a Global Governance Commons.\u201d<\/p><p>Raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Cecile learned French at an embassy school and spent her childhood exploring ancient ruins and the waters of the Aegean. Outside her work, she enjoys the wilds of Vermont, dancing, and building community by growing food together.<\/p><div><a class=\"tcs-about-person-link\" style=\"margin-right:16px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.roundskysolutions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website \u2197<\/a><a class=\"tcs-about-person-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cecilegreen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"tcs-about-cta\"><div class=\"tcs-about-shell tcs-about-cta-grid\"><h2>The Standard grows through participation.<\/h2><div><p>Bring your research, methods, institutional experience, technology, community practice, and questions into an open framework designed to be governed and shaped together.<\/p><a class=\"tcs-about-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/cs.enfascination.opalstacked.com\/?page_id=36\">Join the community<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the work Commoning is how we learn to hold power together. Enabling self-governance at scale. The Commoning Standard is an open, living framework for people, organizations, institutions, communities, and networks seeking more relational, regenerative, and accountable ways to govern themselves and steward what they share. The Commoning Standard living system Knowledge, Practices, Skills and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-146","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commoningstandard.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commoningstandard.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commoningstandard.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commoningstandard.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commoningstandard.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/commoningstandard.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/commoningstandard.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commoningstandard.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}