Ann Marie Utratel

Ann Marie Utratel is a co-founder of Guerrilla Translation [1], a P2P translation collective and cooperative founded in Spain in 2013. Guerrilla Translation’s core mission and values are oriented and inspired by the ideal of a commons-based equitable society, and GT sees itself as a group of communication facilitators toward that end. GT has built its own innovative cooperative business model to support its unique vision of a self-sustaining system of pro-bono and paid work within the collective, prototyping ideas from contemporary writing on the new economy and its power to change. In 2014, GT was voted one of five OuiShare award winners, recognized as “exceptional collaborative economy initiatives from across the globe”, and participated in its weeklong acceleration program in Paris, France.

Ann Marie is also a project development coordinator for the P2P Foundation, contributing to projects such as the Commons Transition platform, e-book and wiki, and the ongoing development of the Open Cooperativism and Commons-Based Reciprocity License (CopyFair) projects, among other activities. As of February 2015, she has joined Platoniq and Goteo.org as an international coordinator.

A native New Yorker now living in Madrid, Spain, Ann Marie enjoys all the usual pleasures of life, and more when practical.

Twitter: @AMUtratel