{"id":5060,"date":"2021-01-29T14:33:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/?page_id=5060"},"modified":"2025-05-15T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:27:34","slug":"meet-our-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/meet-our-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-8129f2a2\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-8129f2a2\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-25p vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-4c2604c1\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-4c2604c1\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-4c2604c1\"><div class=\"vce-single-image-container vce-single-image--align-left\"><div class=\"vce vce-single-image-wrapper\" id=\"el-6ee934db\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-6ee934db\"><figure><div class=\"vce-single-image-inner vce-single-image--absolute\" style=\"padding-bottom: 97.3633%; width: 1024px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vce-single-image\" width=\"1024\" height=\"997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250120_173555132.MP_-2-scaled-1024x997.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250120_173555132.MP_-2-scaled-320x312.jpg 320w,https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250120_173555132.MP_-2-scaled-480x467.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250120_173555132.MP_-2-scaled-800x779.jpg 800w,https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250120_173555132.MP_-2-scaled-1024x997.jpg 1024w,https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250120_173555132.MP_-2-scaled-2048x1994.jpg 2x\" data-img-src=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250120_173555132.MP_-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"PXL_20250120_173555132.MP\" \/><\/div><figcaption hidden=\"\"><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-75p vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last\" id=\"el-586eac39\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-586eac39\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-586eac39\"><div class=\"vce-text-block\"><div class=\"vce-text-block-wrapper vce\" id=\"el-4f1a4632\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-4f1a4632\"><h2>Ghislain Guiebo | Co-Executive Director<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #222222; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Ghislain was born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. Ghislain has a background in finance and has worked in the past with DHL account receivable and Bank Of Africa in Kenya. Ghislain has been working with The Working World since 2016, starting as a Project Steward and currently acting as Co-Executive director of the organization. Ghislain is also a business owner in Burkina Faso and on the board of Seed Commons. Ghislain is deeply committed to creating a more just and equitable world, redefining finance, eliminating income disparities, ending poverty and giving back power to the workers.<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-780c2366\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-780c2366\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-25p vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-e680720b\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-e680720b\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-e680720b\"><div class=\"vce-single-image-container vce-single-image--align-left\"><div class=\"vce vce-single-image-wrapper\" id=\"el-0499d8bf\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-0499d8bf\"><figure><div class=\"vce-single-image-inner vce-single-image--absolute\" style=\"padding-bottom: 174.15%; width: 588px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vce-single-image\" width=\"588\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_9604-1-1-588x1024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_9604-1-1-320x557.jpg 320w,https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_9604-1-1-480x836.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_9604-1-1-588x1024.jpg 588w\" data-img-src=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_9604-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Trumbull photo\" title=\"IMG_9604 (1)\" \/><\/div><figcaption hidden=\"\"><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-75p vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last\" id=\"el-7338b62e\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-7338b62e\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-7338b62e\"><div class=\"vce-text-block\"><div class=\"vce-text-block-wrapper vce\" id=\"el-766a598a\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-766a598a\"><h2>Scott Trumbull | Co-Executive Director<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #313131; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">In 2011, Scott joined The Working World team as a Project Steward in Leon, Nicaragua. There, he led investments in over 20 worker and producer cooperatives and facilitated strategic alliances with local government and nonprofit organizations. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #313131; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">In 2013, he returned to the United States where he managed The Working World\u2019s New York City-based programs. Scott played a leading role developing and managing cooperative academies, launching our cooperative conversions program, and building out early infrastructure for Seed Commons, a national network of locally-rooted, non-extractive loan funds of which The Working World is a founding member. In 2020, Scott was named Co-Executive Director of The Working World\u2019s New York City office.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #313131; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Scott holds a B.A. in Government and History from the University of Virginia and a M.P.A. in Public Finance and Financial Management from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. He has also served on the board of the New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYC NOWC), was a 2015 Democracy at Work Institute Fellow, and has consulted for Banco Popular y de Desarrollo Comunal in Costa Rica.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-16ce2c45\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-16ce2c45\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-25p vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-2db69d29\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-2db69d29\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-2db69d29\"><div class=\"vce-single-image-container vce-single-image--align-center\"><div class=\"vce vce-single-image-wrapper\" id=\"el-4e7ddd64\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-4e7ddd64\"><figure><div class=\"vce-single-image-inner vce-single-image--absolute\" style=\"padding-bottom: 133.333%; width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vce-single-image\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Karen-7-300x400.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Karen-7-300x400.jpeg 300w\" data-img-src=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Karen-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Karen\" \/><\/div><figcaption hidden=\"\"><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-75p vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last\" id=\"el-d78a8430\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-d78a8430\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-d78a8430\"><div class=\"vce-text-block\"><div class=\"vce-text-block-wrapper vce\" id=\"el-b52fc42e\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-b52fc42e\"><h2>Karen Haskins | Senior Fellow: Finance Advisor<\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-904a90da-7fff-48c3-cdd7-c998c538a4f6\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #333333; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;\">As Senior Fellow with a focus on financial advising, Karen contributes her financial know-how to both cooperative projects and to The Working World&#8217;s own finances. Karen joined our team in 2011 as a loan officer in Nicaragua, and was integral in forming the US office. Karen previously worked as a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Masters of Accountancy and a BBA in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin\u2012Madison.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-4f69a772\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-4f69a772\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-25p vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-bf11aa7f\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-bf11aa7f\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-bf11aa7f\"><div class=\"vce-single-image-container vce-single-image--align-left\"><div class=\"vce vce-single-image-wrapper\" id=\"el-331fc183\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-331fc183\"><figure><div class=\"vce-single-image-inner vce-single-image--absolute\" style=\"padding-bottom: 150.367%; width: 681px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vce-single-image\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brendan-681x1024.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brendan-320x481.jpeg 320w,https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brendan-480x722.jpeg 480w,https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brendan-681x1024.jpeg 681w\" data-img-src=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Brendan.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Brendan\" \/><\/div><figcaption hidden=\"\"><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-75p vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last\" id=\"el-13628641\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-13628641\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-13628641\"><div class=\"vce-text-block\"><div class=\"vce-text-block-wrapper vce\" id=\"el-d8c45180\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-d8c45180\"><h2>Brendan Martin | Senior Fellow: Capital Placement Advisor<\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-bb3cdac9-7fff-ccc5-755b-17bbe4488fda\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #333333; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;\">Having been a co-founder of The Working World in 2004 along with Avi Lewis and its Executive Director from 2004 to 2020, Brendan has passed on the position of ED to the leadership of Ghislain Guiebo and Scott Trumbull.&nbsp; Brendan now serves as a Senior Fellow as a close advisor and support for the executive team and focuses on capital placement and investment plans with the cooperative projects The Working World focuses on. Brendan is also Co-Director of<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/seedcommons.org\"> <span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #333333; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;\">Seed Commons<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #333333; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;\">, the national infrastructure for non-extractive finance that TWW helped launch and that it is now a member of, and his work there builds off of and helps support his ongoing role at TWW.&nbsp; Brendan is an Ashoka fellow and two-time Ashoka Globalizer, serves on the board of the Southern Reparations Loan Fund, the New Economy Project, California Harvesters farmworker cooperative, Brooklyn Stone and Tile cooperative, and serves as key technical support to New Era Windows Coop.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-adc5d3dd\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-adc5d3dd\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-25p vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-b46b1c4a\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-b46b1c4a\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-b46b1c4a\"><div class=\"vce-single-image-container vce-single-image--align-left\"><div class=\"vce vce-single-image-wrapper\" id=\"el-ed0f993e\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-ed0f993e\"><figure><div class=\"vce-single-image-inner vce-single-image--absolute\" style=\"padding-bottom: 131.451%; width: 779px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vce-single-image\" width=\"779\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Barry-Head-shot-DC-2022-779x1024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Barry-Head-shot-DC-2022-320x421.jpg 320w,https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Barry-Head-shot-DC-2022-480x631.jpg 480w,https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Barry-Head-shot-DC-2022-779x1024.jpg 779w\" data-img-src=\"https:\/\/www.theworkingworld.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Barry-Head-shot-DC-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Barry Headshot 2022\" \/><\/div><figcaption hidden=\"\"><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-75p vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last\" id=\"el-cceb3cf9\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-cceb3cf9\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-cceb3cf9\"><div class=\"vce-text-block\"><div class=\"vce-text-block-wrapper vce\" id=\"el-2971f392\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-2971f392\"><h2>Barry Pinckney | Senior Project Steward<\/h2><p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-212a1d3c-7fff-3d1a-096b-1b0abc7ae17b\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; color: #1d1c1d; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;\">Barry is a magna cum laude graduate of Rutgers University from Newark, NJ. Barry has experience with democratic workplaces after starting a cooperative youth development organization focused on combating the pipeline to prison that targets communities of color. Barry previously worked with the Urban Cooperative Enterprise &amp; Legal Center, organizing around agriculture, housing, and prison slavery legalized by the 13th amendment. Barry\u2019 vision calls for a movement of the people using cooperation as one of the main tools to move forward economic development and solidarity of underserved communities.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-17d98004\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-17d98004\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-25p vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-8dadebe1\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-8dadebe1\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-8dadebe1\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-75p vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last\" id=\"el-7533d1f6\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-7533d1f6\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-7533d1f6\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghislain Guiebo | Co-Executive Director Ghislain was born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. 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