Hiya, I’m Keira, and I head up a youth climate movement called ReGeneration 2030 in the Nordic and Baltic Sea region. I first found RadHR through googling stuff when I was working in a community library for people stuck in refugee camps in Greece and have found it super useful in a bunch of different contexts.
Joining the discussion side of things as I realise now that some stuff is cool to talk about!
Hey, nice to e-meet you! I’m Veronica - I’m one of the Core Team members at RadHR. So glad to hear you’ve found the site useful. Looking forward to chatting more with you 
Hello,
My name is Abe. I’m in Newark, NJ, USA. I’m a member of Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) Collective (www.geo.coop), Homes For All Newark, and a steering committee for a food co-op. Earlier this year, I received my masters in management for co-ops and credit unions. My final research paper was on applying liberation psychology to anti-capitalist strategic planning for worker collectives. I’m a bit of a student of collective process. I’ve been doing work in the solidarity economy for twenty five years now.
I’m curious to learn more about what others are doing for HR done more with transformative justice and care work that is more transformative than how HR is done in more corporate settings.
-Abe
Hello everyone my name is Shivy, hollering all the way from the lower mainland of British Columbia. I currently work in many areas pertaining to community and mental health. I work as a Community & Human Resource Manager for a non-profit called Solid State Community Industries; where we incubate cooperatives ranging from worker and community services, I also work as a child and youth care counsellor for a local school district, director of youth services and programming for a South Asian led non-profit focus on peer networks for youth, and co-founder for a community services coop that bridges the gap between queer communities in Surrey, British Columbia and deals with universal food insecurity especially for seniors and vulnerable queer youth; and currently doing a masters in Counselling Psychology.
Recently been elected into this new HR role, and looking forward to learning so much and all of your and gaining and sharing new resources. It definitely will take time for me to grasp the full scope of the work; especially after our new governance restructuring so I’m grateful to be included in this community.
Hi @Shivneel_Reddy! Welcome! Sounds like an incredible range of things you’re doing! The connections between mental health/ counselling and being able to think more holistically around HR/operations work is such an important one! Looking forward to hearing your insights in the forum, if you have the chance to share your perspectives 
Hi @boyfromthefuture - sounds like the RadHR community will really benefit from your experiences in these areas! If that research paper was available publicly, I’m sure there are other co-ops and collectives in here that would benefit from it? (No pressure tho!)
Hello, I am Allison Wyatt and I’m the Founder & CEO of Edgility Talent Partners. Edgility is a mission-driven consulting firm that partners with nonprofits, and social impact organizations to build equitable, transparent, and sustainable people systems. With deep expertise in compensation design, performance management, hiring practices, and leadership development, we partner with organizations to align their talent strategies with their values. Our work centers equity at every stage, combining data-driven insights with a deep understanding of the unique challenges mission-focused organizations face. Many of our clients are small, bootstrapped organizations and I love helping them find creative ways to translate best people practices into their organization in a way that is sustainable, fair and competitive.
I am excited to connect with other leaders committed to doing right by their people!
Hi
I’m Sarah, I’m on the Board of Reliable Media. Who, you ask?
Reliable Media brings together the Stop Funding Hate and Stop Funding Heat campaigns under one organisational umbrella. Our mission is to make hate and climate misinformation unprofitable by persuading advertisers to stop funding media outlets and platforms that spread harmful narratives. We believe advertising shapes culture and that, by disrupting the financial incentives behind harmful media, we can build an information ecosystem that is inclusive, accountable and climate responsible.
We are currently seeking new Board members to strengthen our governance and support the next stage of our mission to make hate and climate misinformation unprofitable.
We’d like to ensure that we’re tapping into the widest pool of talent, to ensure that all voices are being heard at board level.
So here’s my request: Do you have any recommendations where I could post the vacancies that would attract new voices?
We’d especially welcome applications from racialised communities, people from ethnic minority backgrounds, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, people from minority faith backgrounds, including those disproportionately targeted by harmful or discriminatory media narratives.
All suggestions welcome! Thanks!
Sarah
what’s your name
what groups/orgs do you work with
what are you working on/grappling with/ excited about at the moment
Excited to be joining this network.
My name is Emi, and I am growing my role on the Worker Success Cluster (our internal organizational jargon for working group) at Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG), a worker co-operative that provides technical (energy and emissions modelling) and practical (policy analysis and public engagement) support for communities to transition to a more equitable and climate resilient future.
SSG is a fully remote organization where a majority of our workers are also co-owners of the business. We are also located across three different countries with different legal requirements.
We want our HR policies to reflect our values, while also meeting the legal requirements of the different legal jurisdictions where we operate.
As a worker co-operative, I believe strongly that HR is a reflection of membership engagement and would love our policies to reflect our desire for our worker-owners to feel empowered to shape our co-op, while also supporting the continued viability of our co-op as a business.
All this to say, I’m excited to learn from the resources and experiences of people in this network and hope to contribute our own learnings if it’s helpful!
Welcome @Emi_Do! Always great to see more co-ops in the community and keen to hear from your experiences! 
Hello!
I’m Avni, I work at Material Cultures as their organising and governance lead meaning I continue to close the gap between what we say we do, and what we actually do through understanding what we as a team want/need (I’m picking upfrom a lot of amazing work done by others before me!) I’m interested in how we all feed into the process and it adjusts and moves to suit needs.
Materials Cultures is a not-for-profit design and research organisation working at the intersection of natural materials, low embodied carbon construction and construction technology. Our mission is to work towards a bio-regional construction industry which is integrated into regenerative and socially just land and building systems. We argue for the reintegration of architecture and agriculture, understanding buildings as irrevocably linked to landscapes of extraction. Bio-based materials are low in embodied carbon and offer an alternative to the globally sourced, carbon-intensive, socially destructive materials commonly used in the construction industry. We challenge the systems, technologies, processes, supply chains, regulations and materials that make up the construction industry with the aim of transforming the way we build.
Huge fan of RadHR, so thank you for all your work! and lovely to meet everyone here.
Thanks @AvniPatel ! Had some chats with one of your predecessors going back a while now, but great to have MC represented here, as it’s definitely an org that can help bridge the gap around internal policy and process questions, into some very different organisational spaces!
Hi Everyone.
My name is Phil and I am part of a small group of people in the Tees Valley (NE England) who have set up a Tenants Union (Housing Action Teesside). We campaign for decent, safe and affordable housing and have just taken on a part time community organiser. Our aim is to get a couple of local community branches set up before the end of the year. We have very limited resources and are in no doubt about the enormity of the task we face, given that our region has some of the highest rates of socio-economic deprivation in the UK. Our intention is to give a voice to some of the most marginalised communities in our region and to amplify their voices when dealing with local councils, landlords and housing associations. I would love to hear from any other groups who have successfully built local community relationships and be able to learn from their experiences.
Hi @pjnewt - thanks for saying hello. Really glad you’re here and glad to have a tenants union joining the RadHR community! Having done a staff support role in another tenants’ union before my time with RadHR (and having done housing organising for years before that, generally), it’s definitely close to my heart. Let me know if you ever want to chat about what it might meant to start to employ people in that context. Would be up for a chat, if helpful and would be keen to hear how things are going in Teesside.
Hi Liam
Thanks for the welcome message.
I forgot to say that I came across this group via a conversation with the Social Change Nest who have been providing some training and mentoring.
Whilst we (Housing Action Teesside - HAT) we’re formed a few years ago, we haven’t moved on from being a core of volunteers doing some housing issue based case work and some local campaigns. We hope to change that over the next year or so by targeting specific areas with the help of a part time community worker. We managed to get some grant funding for this post but it will only last around a year. Apart from the perennial problem of fund raising (HAT is a free to join renters union - so not income generating) our biggest challenge is getting enough motivated people in the communities that need decent representation to “step up”.
Hello everyone,
I’ve long been a fan of RadHR and I’m currently doing some work to figure out how deeper conversations and concerns might be better supported for the online community. My approach is based on social pedagogies
I want to help y’all realise your hopes for sharing with, and learning from each other. Start here
See you around the forum
Roxanne
Hey I’m Bonnie,
I work for Farming the Future which is an unincorporated collective pooled fund that uses sociocracy and participatory grant making to fund collaboration and movement building within UK agroecology.
We only have a couple of paid staff and so HR is in my purview. I’m here to help me strengthen connection to allies in this area who we can lean on as we develop as an organisation.
Soon I’m going to have to recruit a new staff member and I’m wondering how to do this in a way that reaches into networks of diverse people who have weaving and facilitation skills…but without getting more applications than I can handle. I’m hoping to find a freelance recruitment consultant who gets us might be able to support application sifting but I don’t even know if they exist!
Hi awesome folx! My name is Élysse and I work for the Milwaukee Turners at Turner Hall. We have an awesomely radical leadership team and finally need some formal employee policies, as we’ve grown exponentially. I think our leadership team would be open to radical HR, but I’ll have to do the work to make it easy for them.
