Rimington, JessJess Rimington is a next economy strategist focused on the design and ethics of emerging next systems. Her research and practice is grounded in historical analysis, accessible truth-telling, and imaginative present-day experimentation. After a decade in the non-profit sector, Jess served as a Visiting Scholar with Stanford University's Global Projects Center from 2015-2019 where she co-facilitated research with more than 200 collaborators on co-creative practices that awaken next economies. As a 4th generation small business person, Jess is focused on helping inspire the imagination of small business and organizational leaders to step out of current extractive systems into more resilient paradigms by transforming their practice and mindset. Jess splits her time between Atlanta and rural central Georgia where she and her husband steward a regenerative farm.Levitt Cea, JoannaJoanna Levitt Cea is dedicated to reimagining investment to lift up the well-being of all. She has worked in community-driven efforts to stop destructive investments that threaten local livelihoods and ecosystems, and she has also helped launch solutions that enable communities to determine our own economic futures. Joanna led the human rights organization International Accountability Project for eight years, and served as founding director of the Buen Vivir Fund with Thousand Currents. In addition, beginning in 2015 as a Visiting Scholar with Stanford University's Global Projects Center, she co-facilitated a research initiative with more than 200 collaborators to identify co-creative practices that awaken next economies. Joanna lives on Oahu in Hawaii with her husband and son, both of whom inspire her continued commitment to life-giving economic futures.

Beloved Economies defines what it takes to co-create US economic futures that work for all.

From rising inequality, to systemized oppression, and an increasing consolidation of wealth, it's clear that work isn't working for us anymore. Rather, it's working for a select few. What changes can we implement at all levels of organizations, now, to make them healthier and more just?

Based on five years of data, Beloved Economies offers seven practices for individuals who are part of teams within enterprises-from businesses to nonprofits, farms, and after-school groups-to build economic realities of more purpose, meaning, and joy. These seven practices are:

-Choose Trust
-Share Power
-Reckon with History
-Prioritize Relationships
-Seek Meaningful Difference
-Source from Multiple Ways of Knowing
-Prototype Early and Often

In their work with a range of communities and leading voices across the United States who are building the next economy, researchers Jess Rimington and Joanna Cea have found that when individuals commit to these practices, they transform their enterprises to be "less capitalist" and more of an emerging system that expands economic imagination. Those working in this way awaken to the fact that our economies are not distant, abstract and cold forces acting upon us, enabling us to survive. Rather, our economies can be about mutual cooperation and should exist to facilitate our need to thrive.

Beloved Economies shows that work is not just a source of meaning or income, nor that the "best work" must be restricted to some rather than others. Large-scale change does not require a policy prescription or a degree in economics, just a commitment to show up every day with a vision for a better tomorrow. Rimington and Cea show that work can work for us all, and we can build an economic future that we can all love.