Brendan Martin

Having been a co-founder of The Working World in 2004 along with Avi Lewis and its Executive Director from 2004 to 2020, Brendan has passed on the position of ED to the leadership of Ghislain Guiebo and Scott Trumbull. Brendan now serves as a Senior Fellow as a close advisor and support for the executive team and focuses on capital placement and investment plans with the cooperative projects The Working World focuses on. Brendan is also Co-Director of Seed Commons, the national infrastructure for non-extractive finance that TWW helped launch and that it is now a member of, and his work there builds off of and helps support his ongoing role at TWW. Brendan is an Ashoka fellow and two-time Ashoka Globalizer, serves on the board of the Southern Reparations Loan Fund, the New Economy Project, California Harvesters farmworker cooperative, Brooklyn Stone and Tile cooperative, and serves as key technical support to New Era Windows.