Susan Witt

Bio

Executive Director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, (heir to the legacy programs of the E. F. Schumacher Society founded in 1980), co-founder of the BerkShares local currency programme, founder of the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires. Her essays appear in ‘Rooted in the Land’, ‘A Forest of Voices: Conversations in Ecology’, ‘The Money Changers: Currency Reform from Aristotle to E-cash’, ‘Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered’. She speaks regularly on the topic of citizen responsibility for shaping local economies. centerforneweconomics.org