THE TEAM:
A beautiful crew
Luckily, the people who came together to write Beautiful Trouble stayed together and became an extraordinary alliance of artists and organizers, trainers and practitioners, sharing their best practices and schooling our movements in the most effective and strategic creative organizing approaches. Our dynamic network spans coast to coast in the US, and across three continents.
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Our toolbox is the work of 175 activists around the globe. Read each of their bios alongside the pieces they contributed in the toolbox.
Core Team
Adrian Carpenter, Senior Developer & Secret Weapon
Ashley Waudo, Impact Amplifier
Chelsea Byers, Speaker of the House & Universe
Darya Alikhani, Juggler of Words & Worlds
Dave Mitchell, Political Corrections Officer
Nadine Bloch, Executive Train(ing) Conductor (ETC.)
Nawa Villy Sitali, Mutompehi the Villager (Senior Village Person)
Priscilla Grim, Mass Communications Matriarch
Rachel Kinbar, Touwslager (Ropemaker, Director of Operations)
Rae Abileah, Prime Minister of Special Projects
Zena Wubneh, Mistress of Consequences
Beautiful Trouble Editors
Andrew Boyd, Chairman of the Blurb
Beautiful Rising Editors
Beautiful Solutions Editors
Laura Daley, editorial assistant
Mark Fairbrother, editorial assistant
Aaron Fernando, editorial assistant
Africa Edition Editors
Study Guide Editors
Brittany McGillivray
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
Paul Kuttner
Hannah Jones
Chelsea Byers
Strategy Card Deck Editors
Translators
Zulaikha Aburisha, Arabic
Juman Abujbara, Arabic
Mohammad Abdel-Hameed, Arabic
Fareed El-Shantory, Arabic
Rim Menia, Arabic
Cyrille Rivallan, French
Becca Richie, French
Ismaël Lebret, French, Spanish
Camila Mena, Spanish
Joseph Spir Rechani, Spanish
Cesare Bulegato, Italian
Lara Brugnera, Italian
Carolina Munis, Portuguese
Hailey Kaas, Portuguese
Cidia Chissungo, Portuguese
Designers
Josiah Werning, book design
Gan Golan, card deck design
Eduarda de la Aun, card deck design
Cristian Fleming, logo design, former artistic director
Diana Haj Ahmad, Beautiful Rising design lead
Stephanie Lukito, book design
Andy Menconi, logo creator
Adrian Carpenter, website design
Rabotnik Collective, website design
Dan Katz, video design
Fellow Travelers in the Beautiful Universe
Andy Bichlbaum • Annie Kraus • Araceli Argueta • Ariel Vegosen • Aurelia Moser • Becca Richie • Beth Grupp • Bethelehem Yirga • Celia Alario • Colin Robinson • Coumba Toure • Cy Wagoner • Dan Glass • Daryn Cambridge • Donald Crumpet • Duncan Meisel • Esteban Kelly • Farhad Ebrahimi • Frank Kearl • Gabi Sobliye • Hazel Sher-Kisch • Isa Fremeaux • Janice Fine • Jason Cummings • Jay Jordan • Jesse Firempong • Jessica Solomon • John Oakes • John Sellers • Josh Bolotsky • Joshua Kahn Russell • Judith Dembetembe Chiyangwa • Kara Andrade • Kate McNeely • Katharine Ainger • Laura Walker McDonald • Leonidas Martin Saura • Lola Michel-Infante • Lowell Daniels • Mara Ranville • Marybeth Onyeukwu • Michael Beer • Molly Campbell • Monica Hunken • Muhammed Lamin Saidykhan • Nisreen Haj Ahmad • Phillip Smith • Rachel Schragis • Rae Breaux • Raquel de Anda • Riwa Hamwi • Robin LaVerne Wilson (Dragonfly) • Sarah Nahar • Shani Smith • Søren Warburg • Steve Dumbombe • Steve Lambert • Suzan Joy • Thinzar Shunlei Yi • Todd Hawley • Tom Allen • Yeun Byun • Yukata Dirks • Zack Malitz • Verdana 11 • and YOU!
Shout out to our publishers at O/R Books & Community Printers and card deck distribution partners at TESA Collective!