Linda founded The Galaxy Bookshop in Hardwick, VT in 1988. During her bookselling career, Linda served as President of the New England Independent Booksellers Association, Board President of Preservation Trust of Vermont, and on the boards of the American Booksellers Association and the Center for an Agricultural Economy. Since selling the bookstore in 2014, Linda has worked as a bookkeeper for many area businesses and nonprofits. Linda lives in Craftsbury and first became interested in local housing solutions in 2019 while serving on the Craftsbury Planning Commission. Linda is a member of the Community Housing Forum and Northeast Kingdom Organizing.

Bill is a clinical law professor emeritus who for over twenty years, along with his students, represented people who could not afford a lawyer in housing cases. He founded a fair housing program that has raised over six million dollars in grant funding for fair housing testing, education and outreach, enforcement, and empirical research. Bill is also an advisor to the Greensboro Land Trust. He lives in Greensboro and is an avid lake swimmer and gravel biker. He also enjoys photography, raising vegetables, and chasing ground hogs.

Leslie fell in love with the people of rural Vermont as a young adult in West Fairlee, working in the schools, on a dairy farm, and as town clerk. A chance to co-own a farm took her to Wisconsin, where she went on to become the first staff person of Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust. Since then, Leslie has worked to support people organizing to improve their community – in conservation, in sustainability, and in mental health. She found her forever home in Craftsbury six years ago, and a purpose worth devoting herself to in the creation of Headwaters Community Trust.

Rick works as a consulting forester in northern Vermont, together with his wife (an ecologist) and father-in-law (a practicing forester with over fifty  years in the woods). Rick holds a Master of Forestry degree from the University of Maine and previously served as the Baxter State Park Resource Manager. He is a licensed forester in Maine and Vermont and has served on the Board of the Forest Stewards Guild, a national organization devoted to advancing a culture of forest stewardship. Rick feels strongly that we can and must pursue the interconnected goals of housing and conservation for the long term well-being of our communities and landscape.

Carey has lived and worked all over the Northeast Kingdom for the last 15 years, helping small businesses, nonprofits and community groups with marketing, communications, strategic planning and development. She's driven by connection, creativity, and making things a little easier for the people around her. Carey and her family are now rooted in Craftsbury--she’s grateful to be one among a community of folks having fun, making change and looking out for each other.

Bill worked variously as a copyeditor, production assistant, designer, acquisitions editor, marketer, and middle manager in scholarly and professional book publishing in Philadelphia and New York, followed by fifteen years as communications and development lead for an educational nonprofit in the New York City suburbs. Bill was raised in southern Vermont and has lived in Craftsbury since 2023.

Meryl is the Logistics Manager for Farm Connex at the Center for an Agricultural Economy in Hardwick, VT. She spent years working on a diversity of farms, building a skill set in each to form a larger holistic view of how agriculture shapes our communities and landscapes. Her work allows her to stay integrated with the community and help farmers and food producers bridge the gap to markets. Meryl holds a degree in Sustainable Agriculture Education with a minor in Draft Animal Management from Sterling College. She is passionate about local, community-driven work and deeply values everyone's right to affordable, accessible housing and land.

Mike is a resident board member of Wheelock Mountain Farm, a nonprofit popular education center, land trust, and intentional community. In his day job with KURRVE, the Northeast Kingdom’s Long-term Disaster Recovery Group, Mike works to repair and rebuild better the region’s existing housing stock devastated by flooding. Mike is passionate about cooperative economics, collective empowerment, and cultivating communal abundance, and he actively organizes with Rural Vermont and Northeast Kingdom Organizing (NEKO).