Jake Schlachter is the executive director of We Own It, a start-up nonprofit that is building a new national network for cooperative member rights, education, and organizing, with the mission goal of bringing co-ops and their 130 million members into the movement for a new economy. Its first focus is on inspiring and supporting member-owner organizing efforts for governance reform, local energy and efficiency, and economic development within rural electric co-ops. Previously, Jake trained new food co-op organizers with Food Co-op Initiative, and has been working in the cooperative movement since 2009. He lives in Madison, WI.