Bloom Network Team

Volunteer Opportunities

Join our global volunteer program and help grow the mission of Bloom Network! We're looking for passionate individuals to contribute their skills and expertise.

Video Editor

Create compelling video content, and short-form social videos from podcasts and Local Bloom chapter videos from our global community.

Team: Content & Media
Time: 3-5 hours/week
Video EditingMotion GraphicsSocial Media ContentDocumentary Style
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Graphic Designer

Create visual content, social graphics, and maintain brand consistency.

Team: Content & Media
Time: 3-5 hours/week
Graphic DesignBrand IdentitySocial Media GraphicsVisual Content
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Magenta Ceiba

New Hampshire, USA

Magenta is an interdisciplinary artist, technologist, and movement organizer building infrastructure for globally networked bioregional economies. She is a member of dOrg.tech, where she manages senior teams developing blockchain-based tools for decentralized governance of financial resources with state-of-the-art UX. With her leadership, Bloom has mobilized significant resources to build the platform, legal structures, and support for grassroots initiatives across multiple continents.

With decades of experience in community organizing and healing, Magenta trained for three years with Radical Women in San Francisco and catalyzed the Decriminalize Nature legislation now active in over 100 cities. She has lectured at Harvard and Yale and speaks internationally on regenerative finance, cooperative media, and rebalancing global financial power.

Role at Bloom: Magenta is CEO of Bloom Network, where she designed the platform’s financial systems for bioregional economies and its digital–physical network architecture. She leads Bloom’s mission to align grassroots communities, impact entrepreneurs, and philanthropic partners through cooperative media and regenerative finance.

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Meg Rivers

Missouri, USA

Meg Rivers is a writer, editor, and cultural systems thinker whose work explores humanity’s deep evolutionary and ecological relationship with the living Earth. Her non-fiction work in progress, The Primordial Dream: Reimagining Ourselves as Oceanic Composites, examines personal and physical connection to the ancient sea through science, evolution, and narrative. With a background in Cultural Anthropology, Meg has spent two decades as a cultural translator between humans and emergent technologies, working at the forefront of technological change within major global media enterprises and guiding organizations through the adoption of powerful new tools, including artificial intelligence. Her work weaves together Earth science, technology, and storytelling, offering a lexicon for finding the sacred within planetary systems and more expansive ways of seeing ourselves in relation to the world.

Role at Bloom: Meg Rivers is Managing Editor at Bloom Network, where she leads the Guest Blogger Program, featuring a diverse body of writers whose work highlights regenerative culture, inspiring solutions, and the arts. As a co-founder of Bloom since 2008, Meg brings deep institutional knowledge to the editorial vision, grounding Bloom’s storytelling in its long-standing commitment to decentralized, place-based community and planetary health. Languages: English, Spanish.

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Vikas Minocha

Nomad, Southeast Asia

Vikas is a visionary solutions architect and community leader with a high-level background working with governments and corporations to build multinational technical financial infrastructure. With extensive expertise in data analysis, application and web development, and cloud infrastructure, he has led many teams designing scalable solutions using Drupal, AWS, GCP, Docker, and various business intelligence tools. Vikas is also a talented photographer who sees to the heart of what will make Bloom successful, contributing key insights for efficiency, scalability, and impact.

Role at Bloom: Vikas is on the Creatives team and contributes to cross-team connectivity from his experience as a shamanic reiki master, local organizer in Washington D.C., and global financial infrastructure leader. Vikas is a beloved co-founder of Bloom Network since 2008. Languages: English, Hindi.

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Tolu Ajayi

Dallas, Texas

Tolu is a Principal Product Designer with over a decade of experience crafting user-centered solutions for clients ranging from innovative startups to Fortune 500 corporations like Google and Boston Scientific. Through her work, she has developed a deep understanding of how thoughtful design can bridge the gap between complex technical systems and human needs, creating experiences that empower users and drive meaningful impact.

As the Founder of UI Narrative, Tolu has built a platform that democratizes design education through podcasts, mentorship, and online learning resources focused on Product Design, UI/UX, Interaction Design, and Research. Her commitment to knowledge sharing and community building reflects her belief that great design should be accessible to everyone, regardless of their background or location. When not designing digital solutions or mentoring emerging designers, Tolu can be found channeling her creativity through music, particularly shredding on her guitar.

Role at Bloom: Tolu advises on product design and user experience strategy for Bloom Platform, bringing expertise in creating inclusive and accessible digital experiences that serve diverse global communities.

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Z Johnson

Oregon, USA

Using her experience as a learning scientist, neuroscientist, dancer, and dharma practitioner, Zanette invites the work of designing for life from a place of joy. Through embodied experiences that reveal and connect, Zanette activates teams and community leaders as they co-create specific new habits with the power to make visionary aspirations into reality. Zanette`s two decades of work with Indigenous learning communities have taught her that values alignment, embodiment, and deep integration are keys to transformation that lasts.

Relationship to place and ecology, relationship to kin and community, and relationship to self and shadow are vital elements that inform how each of us walks upon the Earth. Bringing to life new patterns for relationship, resilience, and regenerativity is the work that inspires Zanette`s multifaceted dance with living systems design.

Role at Bloom: Z facilitates the monthly Local Blooms Leadership call, including from her experience with transformative kinship circles.

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Allegra DeAngelo

New York City

Allegra is a designer, innovator, and collaborator with a master`s degree in sustainability from Harvard and many years of experience as an industrial and graphic designer for a wide range of consumer goods companies. She continually endeavors to merge her deep industry knowledge of consumer goods with her passion for systemic improvements and design-thinking, and hopes to bring fruition to her vision of a world in which companies do not have to choose between people, planet, and profit to become successful. Allegra brings a passion for the environment and social justice that underpins every decision she makes and engages stakeholders and collaborators to maximize the beneficial impact on the planet we all share.

In her spare time, Allegra enjoys trying out new vegetarian recipes, playing video games with far-away friends, anything that gets her out of NYC and into nature, and entertaining her two rescue cats, Cricket and Hunter.

Role at Bloom: Strategic creative communications and IRL design assets.

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Alip Emma

Kampala, Uganda

Alip Emma plays a key role in supporting Bloom’s local chapters by managing the Local Action Rewards program, which distributes resources to initiatives worldwide. They oversee the process by sending reminders, verifying reports, and suggesting improvements that strengthen fundraising and operational practices.

Alip has also contributed to enhancing the donations experience, developing templates for annual financial reporting, and guiding the team on effective fundraising strategies.

Their expertise includes working with both local and international organizations to raise funds for impactful programs, particularly in sectors such as education, agriculture, and social entrepreneurship. Alip is passionate about creating opportunities for underserved communities and ensuring that resources are allocated to projects that foster long-term, positive change.

Role at Bloom: As the Local Action Rewards Lead, Alip drives initiatives that connect local actions with meaningful support, developing strategies to engage the community and secure resources for sustainable projects. Known for their strategic approach, attention to detail, and ability to engage stakeholders in meaningful ways. Languages: English,Luganda, Luo, Kiswahili, English, French

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Tina Trout

Abiquiú, New Mexico

Tina is a regenerative storyteller, systems thinker, and garden-side philosopher weaving together ecology, economy, and inner transformation. For more than a decade she stewarded LaLa Gardens Cooperative, a community-owned experiment in permaculture, mutual aid, and living-systems design. Relocating to her ancestral home of Abiquiú, New Mexico, she distilled those lessons into the Natural Being Framework, a life framework aligned with human needs and indigenous cycles of moon and season. Today she writes & teaches through Natural Being, hosts rebel-hearted conversations with healers, seed keepers, and systems innovators, and designs curricula for Natural Farming and Permaculture Teachers Collectives with a declaration of interdependence and hyper-local trade ethics. Tina advises brands & cooperatives on empowerment marketing and regenerative strategy.

Role at Bloom: Tina leads a marketing training cohort called Signal Craft and leads the social media team in effective network marketing.

Featured Local Leaders

These senior Local Bloom Leaders are experts in community-led regenerative development.

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Datu Lanelio Sangcoan

Mindanao, Philippines

Datu Lanelio is a forest defender, community developer/shaper, social campaign worker, peace builder, and planner who is fully equipped in the field of developing the holistic personality of the person in bringing lives of the Tribal people and neglected individuals to help them air their voices through local campaign and to have the venue of Sustainable Business Enterprise and Economic Development that leads to a healthy environment and productive communities for unity amidst of diversity. He is tribal chief of the Higa-onon Indigenous Peoples in Southern Philippines.

Role at Bloom: Leader of Bloom Network`s Indigenous Leadership Fund, which is an iteration of our Local Action Rewards with a grants pool that goes 100% directly to Indigenous financial management.

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Charles Mugarura

Uganda

Charles is a permaculture social entrepreneur, tutor, designer, innovator with 17 years experience in permaculture ecosystem design. He has a background of Computer Science, Makerere University Business School and a number of specialized expertise disciplines. Charles is a Global Citizen based in the horn of East Africa - Uganda serving at national and global level, policy advocate on youth empowerment, gender equality, health and sustainable transformation through best and efficient alternatives from the environment.

Charles believes in reframing indigenous technologies using the permaculture approach. He has catalyzed the training of over 70,000 Ugandan school children and thousands of farmers in permaculture. He has successfully implemented and committed his deep understanding and works to use permaculture to develop various solutions from farming practices, education, leadership and lifestyle using permaculture. Awarded the 2019 E30U30 North American Association for Environment Education, Washington DC.

Role at Bloom: Expert in large-scale commercially viable permaculture agroforestry food systems.

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Flávia Macêdo

Rio de Janeiro

Flávia is a Community Builder of a non-convertible social currency project called Muda (in Portuguese Muda means change and also seedling). It`s a booster network that seeks to encourage cultural, educational, and socio-environmental actions, by experimenting with alternative economies based on joy and abundance. @mudaoutraseconomias . She is also an advisor at Educar+, an educational NGO bringing gamified self-directed learning to kids at a favela in Rio. @projeto.educar.mais

Role at Bloom: Expert in local community currencies and creative community stakeholder engagement.

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Will Masters

Texas Panhandle

Husband, dad, attorney, tech enthusiast, amateur(!) historian & ReFi advocate. Grew up exploring farms & ranches on the Texas Panhandle, fished & swam in creeks that are dry as a bone today (and were surrounded by swamp, said my grandad). Privileged with access to this landscape, given front row view of degradation, and driven to work at realigning (land use) incentives, rediscovering value and deploying decentralized, distributed, diverse systems to empower my community and improve health and wellbeing of its` people & the landscape (& groundwater) that sustains them. LFG ;)

Role at Bloom: Expert in arid and semi-arid aquifer restoration and watershed management.

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Danibelle Gennety

Diamante Valley, Costa Rica

An an advocate for ecological renewal and creator of community-centric living, Danibelle blends virtual technology with natural ecosystems to foster decentralized governance and sustainable economies. With over three decades of experience in IT project management, she now resides in Costa Rica, spearheading initiatives that integrate blockchain tools and crypto-philanthropy into tangible projects focused on environmental stewardship and indigenous rights.

In leading various organizations like Asociacion Puente Diamante Colectiva and ReFi Costa Rica, Danibelle is committed to cultural exchange endeavors that leverage web3 tools to incentivize contributions towards nature conservation and community development. Through decentralized frameworks inspired by Elinor Ostrum`s work on commons governance, we strive to unite global partners and local stakeholders in nurturing sustainable economies and regenerative land projects, empowering individuals to care for their bioregion and each other. Her journey from corporate IT to social activism has been fueled by permaculture ethics and a dedication to fostering resilient communities and equitable economies, driven by altruistic governance models enabled by decentralized technologies.

Role at Bloom: Co-founder of Bloom since 2011. Expert in land trusts, cryptoeconomic incentive systems for impact, wisdom council processes, and community building.