Bloom Network Team
- Financial decision-making decentralization for philanthropic and other institutions
- Bioregional hackathon production
- Sustainable technology design and development
Magenta Ceiba
New Hampshire, USA
Magenta Ceiba
New Hampshire, USA
Magenta is an interdisciplinary artist and technologist, building infrastructure for globally networked bioregional economies. As a member of dOrg.tech, she manages high-level teams building new blockchain tools for decentralized governance of financial resources, with state of the art UX. As a movement organizer, she trained for 3 years with Radical Women in San Francisco, which trains women to be leaders in social movements. The events she produced as a Local Bloom organizer catalyzed the formation of the Decriminalize Nature movement which has put forth legislation to decriminalize entheogens in over 100 cities.
Role at Bloom: Mage designed Bloom`s financial system for bioregional economies and the digital-physical network architecture of Bloom Network. She has decades of experience as a local community organizer and healer.
Meg Rivers
Missouri, USA
Meg Rivers
Missouri, USA
Meg is technology transformation expert, instructional designer, technical project manager, workforce and labor expert, and senior systems admin. She was previously a life and career coach in social services before making the switch to IT. Meg also makes visual art and writes about humans` oceanic origins.
20+ years of professional end-user tech training and systems administration, teaching people how to overcome obstacles to understanding technology. She has led Fortune 500 companies in rolling out new technical solutions across their workforce, including designing digital production coordination interfaces for HBO.
Role at Bloom: Meg is a co-founder of Bloom since 2008 and our systems admin. She developed the automated onboarding for Local Bloom hubs and our global decentralized governance model for bioregional health. Lastly, she developed guidelines for team development to support local community security.
Z Johnson
Oregon, USA
Z Johnson
Oregon, USA
Using her experience as a learning scientist, neuroscientist, dancer, and dharma practitioner, Zanette invites the work of designing for life from a place of joy. Through embodied experiences that reveal and connect, Zanette activates teams and community leaders as they co-create specific new habits with the power to make visionary aspirations into reality. Zanette`s two decades of work with Indigenous learning communities have taught her that values alignment, embodiment, and deep integration are keys to transformation that lasts.
Relationship to place and ecology, relationship to kin and community, and relationship to self and shadow are vital elements that inform how each of us walks upon the Earth. Bringing to life new patterns for relationship, resilience, and regenerativity is the work that inspires Zanette`s multifaceted dance with living systems design.
Role at Bloom: Z facilitates the monthly Local Blooms Leadership call, including from her experience with transformative kinship circles.
Laissa Duclos
Madrid, Spain
Laissa Duclos
Madrid, Spain
Professionally, Laissa is interested in creating inclusive and equitable technologies. Previously product manager at Meta, and manager of digital supply chain at Paramount, she has 5+ years of experience in Fortune 500 multinational companies driving cross-functional teams. Leveraging her sociology background, she operates at the intersections of product and DEI to decode the intricate tapestry of users` diverse life experiences, translating them into transformative product features. Ultimately, Laissa`s goal is to empower global communities, guiding them from the margins to the heart of digital inclusion, harnessing the very tools designed to unite us.
Role at Bloom: Laissa advises on product for Bloom Platform, with an emphasis on community inclusion and accessibility of Bloom`s collective wisdom.
Vikas Minocha
Nomad, Southeast Asia
Vikas Minocha
Nomad, Southeast Asia
Vikas is a solutions Architect with extensive experience in data analysis, application and web development using Content Management Systems like Drupal and infrastructure deployment on cloud using services like Amazon Web Services. Specialties: LAMP, PHP, Drupal, MySQL, AWS, GCP, Docker, BI Tools, Pentaho, .Net, VB, C++, Unix/Linux, PERL, SQL Server, Business Intelligence, Agile, ScrumMaster. Vikas studies with Shamanic Reiki Worldwide and is a talented photographer.
Role at Bloom: Vikas is a co-founder of Bloom Network since 2008. He manages @bloomnetwork on Instagram and contributes to cross-team connectivity from his experience as a shamanic reiki master, local organizer in Washington D.C., and leading teams building multinational technical financial infrastructure.
Josephine Watson
Connecticut, USA
Josephine Watson
Connecticut, USA
Josie is an Earth Law specialist and regenerative ag food systems thinker who has converted from global governance (UN level) to bioregional level climate resilience. As a scholar, she has spported publications with the Stockholm Environment Institute, Global Development and Environment Institute, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, across commons, food and watershed management. She authored a brief on the Rights of Manoomin case, a pathfinding Rights of Nature case led by the White Earth Band of the Ojibwe in Minnesota, with the Center for Democracy and Environmental Rights. She founded a brain trust advocacy network for public sector investment in regenerative agriculture in the Northeast, and has done legal counsel for environment-focused blockchain startups.
Role at Bloom: Josie is the founder of Mycelial Law, collaborating with Bloom Network to support financial processes: specifically blended finance grant strategy and agrifood network engagement.
Anita Caldera
Madrid, Spain via Venezuela
Anita Caldera
Madrid, Spain via Venezuela
Anita has a masters degree in political marketing and institutional communication and certification in Community Management. She has held different roles in the marketing and communications world. Mainly in digital marketing and social media as a member of agencies such as dOrg.tech, working as a freelancer or on contract. Anita is a creative and proactive person, totally passionate about marketing, communications and social media. Anita`s current interest is to continue growing in the digital marketing and PR business.
Role at Bloom: Marketing communications on Twitter and LinkedIn, newsletter editor.
Allegra DeAngelo
New York City
Allegra DeAngelo
New York City
Allegra is a designer, innovator, and collaborator with a master`s degree in sustainability from Harvard and many years of experience as an industrial and graphic designer for a wide range of consumer goods companies. She continually endeavors to merge her deep industry knowledge of consumer goods with her passion for systemic improvements and design-thinking, and hopes to bring fruition to her vision of a world in which companies do not have to choose between people, planet, and profit to become successful. Allegra brings a passion for the environment and social justice that underpins every decision she makes and engages stakeholders and collaborators to maximize the beneficial impact on the planet we all share.
In her spare time, Allegra enjoys trying out new vegetarian recipes, playing video games with far-away friends, anything that gets her out of NYC and into nature, and entertaining her two rescue cats, Cricket and Hunter.
Role at Bloom: Strategic creative communications and IRL design assets.
Miriam Mendez
Barcelona, Spain
Miriam Mendez
Barcelona, Spain
Miriam`s mission is to assist companies in efficiently managing their time and resources through the outsourcing of recruitment processes.
She has Master`s degree in Human Resources Management and a bachelor`s degree in Psychology from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, dev during a part time bootcamp plus multiple certifications from LinkedIn on strategic thinking, strategic human resources, and HR as a business partner.
Before launching her own recruiting agency, Miriam worked as an HR Manager at FRIDAY Insurance and a Career Coach Manager at Ironhack, where she led and executed several projects across different countries, hired key players for technical teams, managed and refined employee core processes, and delivered career services to over 500 graduates.
Role at Bloom: Volunteer talent recruiting
Emily Schoerning
Iowa, USA
Emily Schoerning
Iowa, USA
Emily is an experienced leader with a demonstrated history of working in the research and non-profit industries with science education issues. Skilled in Discourse Analysis, Mixed-Methods Research, Communicating Complex Concepts, and Data Analysis. Strong research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Microbiology and Science Education from Arizona State University. Emily has previously collaborated with NASA. She runs her own nonprofit, American Resiliency, where she posts educational climate videos to help Americans understand the coming climate changes where they live, and make adapatations to help their families stay safe and well.
Role at Bloom: Emily is on the Treasure Builders team, developing the capacity of Local Bloom leaders to win grants, and collaborating with Bloom Network to develop partnerships with aligned financial institutions.
Brian N. Hewlett aka L.I.F.E.
Colorado, USA
Brian N. Hewlett aka L.I.F.E.
Colorado, USA
Brian is a dynamic educator, counselor, and community leader. He works as a Social Psychological Scientist, Inter-Disciplinary Methodologist, Consciousness Studies Researcher, Alternative Educational Event Organizer, Theorist, Workshop Facilitator, Writer, Podcast Host and Media Producer. His specialties are Budgeting, Customer Relations, English, German, Grant Writing, Marketing, Proposal Writing, Research, Spanish, Supervisory Skills, Script Writing. Brian has a Ph.D in sociology, an M.A. in Counseling, and a Masters degree in Sociology.
Role at Bloom: Brian is on the Treasure Builders team, teaching Local Blooms how to assess their needs for growth and success in securing grants, while engaging local stakeholders in the community. He is working on financing a cooperative CSA program for local food sovereignty in Colorado and Arizona.
Featured Local Leaders
These senior Local Bloom Leaders are experts in community-led regenerative development.
Datu Lanelio Sangcoan
Mindanao, Philippines
Datu Lanelio Sangcoan
Mindanao, Philippines
Datu Lanelio is a forest defender, community developer/shaper, social campaign worker, peace builder, and planner who is fully equipped in the field of developing the holistic personality of the person in bringing lives of the Tribal people and neglected individuals to help them air their voices through local campaign and to have the venue of Sustainable Business Enterprise and Economic Development that leads to a healthy environment and productive communities for unity amidst of diversity. He is tribal chief of the Higa-onon Indigenous Peoples in Southern Philippines.
Role at Bloom: Leader of Bloom Network`s Indigenous Leadership Fund, which is an iteration of our Local Action Rewards with a grants pool that goes 100% directly to Indigenous financial management.
Charles Mugarura
Uganda
Charles Mugarura
Uganda
Charles is a permaculture social entrepreneur, tutor, designer, innovator with 17 years experience in permaculture ecosystem design. He has a background of Computer Science, Makerere University Business School and a number of specialized expertise disciplines. Charles is a Global Citizen based in the horn of East Africa - Uganda serving at national and global level, policy advocate on youth empowerment, gender equality, health and sustainable transformation through best and efficient alternatives from the environment.
Charles believes in reframing indigenous technologies using the permaculture approach. He has catalyzed the training of over 70,000 Ugandan school children and thousands of farmers in permaculture. He has successfully implemented and committed his deep understanding and works to use permaculture to develop various solutions from farming practices, education, leadership and lifestyle using permaculture. Awarded the 2019 E30U30 North American Association for Environment Education, Washington DC.
Role at Bloom: Expert in large-scale commercially viable permaculture agroforestry food systems.
Flávia Macêdo
Rio de Janeiro
Flávia Macêdo
Rio de Janeiro
Flávia is a Community Builder of a non-convertible social currency project called Muda (in Portuguese Muda means change and also seedling). It`s a booster network that seeks to encourage cultural, educational, and socio-environmental actions, by experimenting with alternative economies based on joy and abundance. @mudaoutraseconomias . She is also an advisor at Educar+, an educational NGO bringing gamified self-directed learning to kids at a favela in Rio. @projeto.educar.mais
Role at Bloom: Expert in local community currencies and creative community stakeholder engagement.
Will Masters
Texas Panhandle
Will Masters
Texas Panhandle
Husband, dad, attorney, tech enthusiast, amateur(!) historian & ReFi advocate. Grew up exploring farms & ranches on the Texas Panhandle, fished & swam in creeks that are dry as a bone today (and were surrounded by swamp, said my grandad). Privileged with access to this landscape, given front row view of degradation, and driven to work at realigning (land use) incentives, rediscovering value and deploying decentralized, distributed, diverse systems to empower my community and improve health and wellbeing of its` people & the landscape (& groundwater) that sustains them. LFG ;)
Role at Bloom: Expert in arid and semi-arid aquifer restoration and watershed management.
Danibelle Gennety
Diamante Valley, Costa Rica
Danibelle Gennety
Diamante Valley, Costa Rica
An an advocate for ecological renewal and creator of community-centric living, Danibelle blends virtual technology with natural ecosystems to foster decentralized governance and sustainable economies. With over three decades of experience in IT project management, she now resides in Costa Rica, spearheading initiatives that integrate blockchain tools and crypto-philanthropy into tangible projects focused on environmental stewardship and indigenous rights.
In leading various organizations like Asociacion Puente Diamante Colectiva and ReFi Costa Rica, Danibelle is committed to cultural exchange endeavors that leverage web3 tools to incentivize contributions towards nature conservation and community development. Through decentralized frameworks inspired by Elinor Ostrum`s work on commons governance, we strive to unite global partners and local stakeholders in nurturing sustainable economies and regenerative land projects, empowering individuals to care for their bioregion and each other. Her journey from corporate IT to social activism has been fueled by permaculture ethics and a dedication to fostering resilient communities and equitable economies, driven by altruistic governance models enabled by decentralized technologies.
Role at Bloom: Co-founder of Bloom since 2011. Expert in land trusts, cryptoeconomic incentive systems for impact, wisdom council processes, and community building.