Andrew Delmonte
Cooperation Buffalo Cooperative Developer
Buffalo, NY
Andrew is a founder and cooperative developer with Cooperation Buffalo, a movement to generate wealth and power in marginalized communities through employee ownership of capital and labor in Buffalo, New York. Andrew also assists cooperatives, B Corps, social enterprises, and other small businesses with planning and management decisions as a business advisor for the Small Business Development Center at SUNY Buffalo State.
Andrew organizes and advocates for sustainable, socially conscious, and community-owned businesses as president of Buffalo First! and they are a former member of the leadership team of the New York Sustainable Business Council. Andrew has served as president, clerk, and in other less formal roles including facilitator, vibes coordinator, and cat-whisperer for the Nickel City Housing Cooperative since 2014.
Andrew is just one small part of a diffuse, non-hierarchical resource-sharing economy dedicated to the expression of experimental, controversial, and anti-establishment artwork (collectively, the Buffalo infringement Festival), which organized arts and cultural experiences at the 2016 CommonBound conference in Buffalo.