Meet the Founders

Our goal is for every organization working to shift harmful systems and solve society’s problems to have the capacity to identify, understand, and address harmful commercial root causes. 

The Commercial Determinants newsletter is our contribution to that effort and a gift to the community: making the ideas and solutions from commercial determinants and allied fields available to the broader social change sector.

For us, Commercially Determined is a ludicrously hopeful project because between us, we’ve lived and worked in 13 countries and visited 31 more, so we know that while the commercial systems we inhabit might feel natural and inevitable– just how things are – they’re, in reality, entirely changeable. 

Our economic systems become more changeable when we can study them, map them, and understand how they function. We apply our diverse systems analysis, research and evaluation, and dissemination toolkit to the task. We’ve shaped our expertise by studying business and consumer psychology, economic anthropology, international development, and health communications at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Combined, we’ve worked in the private sector, academia, and non-profits on, among other issues, food systems, public health, sustainability, climate change, poverty reduction, economic development, and modern day slavery. We’ve seen and facilitated change in multiple organizations, fields, and countries. We bring that experience to our partners in the movement to address harmful commercial determinants and rebuild thriving systems for people and planet.

Work with Us

Ready to dig in on naming the commercially determined elephant in the room in your work? Contact us to request a consultation, a talk, or a support strategy to address commercial determinants in your space. We tailor all our speaking and facilitation work to groups’ goals and areas of interest. We ensure maximum relevance to catalyze your ability to address commercial determinants.