Aerin Dunford

Aerin Dunford is many things: writer, upcycling artist, urban gardener and yoga instructor. She is also a process consultant at Coquixa Consultores using El Arte del Liderazgo Participativo (Art of Hosting) and other participatory approaches as a basis for her work with organizations and groups of all kinds. Aerin believes that meaningful connection and relationship-building is possible across distance and difference. In these times of much complexity and fear, she feels it is so important that folks around the world come together in new ways to explore an ecosystem of economic approaches and new ways of being in relationship with one another, not only to give us hope and inspiration but to remember that we are not alone in all this – we have each other.

Aerin is also the Chief Basketweaver at The Emergence Network, a translocal community of postactivists posing questions such as: what if the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis?

Since the death and stillbirth of her son in 2018, Aerin has been called to work with grief in new ways; she has been reflecting, writing and convening others to metabolize loss together. You can read some of these musing on her blog, In the Name of Rafa.