I'm a professor in the School of Social Innovation at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. My areas of research include the food movement and alternative food networks, co-operatives and collective organizing, and questions related to prefiguration and enacting a politics of possibility. Outside of academia I've worked with several non-governmental organizations in the areas of policy analysis, research, network coordination and popular education, and previously co-owned a small-scale organic vegetable farm. I'm a long-time activist and community organizer in Ottawa.