Cohousing-L Mailing List: Fwd: [tvc] A new Cohousing US Executive Director

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

A few weeks ago CohoUS announced that both the Executive Director and the 
Director of Communications (I think the only two full-time staff) were leaving 
at the same time. I was fearful of the long months before the Board would 
decide on the Executive Director replacement and the old one was already gone. 
Hiring can so often drag on that all the momentum is lost and has to be 
rediscovered. A one year hole. For an underpaid position, we have had many of 
those.

I was greatly relieved this week when the CohoUS board announced the new 
Executive Director. Her bio is below with all the details but even better, I 
looked up her TedX talk and it is fabulous. If you are looking for something to 
explain to your family and friends what cohousing is, or to remind yourself, 
this is it. She is an experienced presenter and founded a cohousing community 
so she isn’t just effusing over her imagined idea of cohousing. I highly 
recommend it. 

TEDx Talk: Cohousing: The Future of Community and Human Connection
https://www.ted.com/talks/trish_becker_hafnor_cohousing_the_future_of_community_and_human_connection

Bio from CohoUS newsletter:

> CohoUS is thrilled to announce our new Executive Director, Trish Becker. A 
> social worker to the core, Trish brings over a decade of experience working 
> in nonprofit and higher education with a focus on community engagement, 
> strategic partnerships and event design. For the past 7 years, she has served 
> as the Director of Community Engagement at the University of Denver’s 
> Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW), leading community engagement 
> initiatives and creating gatherings that advance social justice. Her 
> consulting group, Storyspring Consulting, provides strategy, facilitation and 
> coaching to nonprofits, social changemakers, and intentional communities.
> 
> Trish is a founding member of Aria Cohousing and Chase Street Commons, a 
> micro-village built upon the principles of cohousing. She is a Tedx speaker 
> and a passionate advocate for housing solutions that address our collective 
> crises of loneliness, environmental degradation and housing inaccessibility. 
> Above all, she believes that humans need one another for meaning and 
> survival, and that collective housing is poised to be among the signature 
> movements of our time. 
> 
> She will join us in mid-February, and we are very excited about the many 
> gifts Trish brings to our movement. 

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org