Designing Economies That Work For Life
For communities, local governments, enterprises, and economic development organizations ready to redesign how value flows — from extraction to regeneration.
For communities, local governments, enterprises, and economic development organizations ready to redesign how value flows — from extraction to regeneration.
My family lost its business and home in the 2008 financial crisis while I was earning my degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Political Economics. That experience set the direction of my work: helping communities protect themselves on the basis of their own local resources and capabilities.
Over fifteen years later, I design community currencies, governance systems, and regenerative finance infrastructure — with governments, universities, and grassroots networks. Every engagement is tailored to the context and stakeholders involved.
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Four service areas built over fifteen years of real-world practice.
Economic architecture for networks, platforms, and communities — currencies, incentives, and payment mechanics.
Governance frameworks that distribute power, clarify roles, and enable collective decisions.
Policy and strategy for governments, institutions, and enterprises navigating regenerative finance.
Keynotes, workshops, and curriculum design that build capacity in others.
I don't bring a single tool to every problem: I bring a toolkit.
The first thing we do is find the right tool for the job.
A canvas that helps map how value moves across your organization. Breaks down silos, reveals hidden leaks, and aligns teams around a shared picture of your value architecture.
Organizational development & transparency
A multi-stakeholder design process for whole communities and regional economies. Brings together government, business, finance, and civil society to architect regenerative systems from the ground up.
Longest-term engagement
A systematic visual framework for tracking how money enters, moves through, and leaks out of a local economy — and identifying where to intervene to keep value circulating locally.
In development
Landmark projects from over fifteen years of practice — from local currencies to state legislatures.
Succeeded America's "oldest and largest" local currency with a modernized system & mobile-first payments platform.
Rewrote the foundational whitepaper on decentralized exchange and automated market making.
Testifying expert on blockchain-based community micro-bonds before the City Council at the behest of the Vice Mayor.
Co-authored a book connecting the history of currency innovation to a modern framework for place-based economic systems architecture via multi-stakeholder co-design.
Books and co-created work that build capacity in others.
With Stephen DeMeulenaere · 2025
A framework for place-based economic systems architecting through multi-stakeholder co-design.
With Jeff Emmett & Jessica Zartler · 2024
Mycelial design patterns for decentralized, resilient, and regenerative financial systems.
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