Interim Managing Director and Cooperative Director

Michael is the past Executive Director of the RP Group serving California’s 116 community colleges, past Chair of the National Task Force On Community Leadership at Stanford University, past President of the East Bay Community Foundation, past Founding Education Officer & Director of Evaluation at the Marin Community Foundation, Dean of Faculty at College of Marin, and past and founding Dean of the College of Professional Studies and tenured faculty member at the University of San Francisco. As a practicing sociologist he has, amongst other important professional and volunteer activities, dedicated his professional career to assisting California's justice impacted residents succeed once they have been paroled, have been released on probation or exonerated.

Operations Officer

Research and Project Coordinator

Michael has worked for several organizations that support and engage with workers facing barriers to employment. At TBL, Michael provides targeted support for worker research projects in collaboration with workers and relevant stakeholders. He develops project plans, monitors progress, and manages risk and issues. He is constantly improving research methodologies and approaches to ensure that worker research is effective and sustainable.

Lead Worker Researcher

Marti started as a Worker Researcher in 2020. She has had a 35-year career as a Personal Trainer. As a Worker Researcher she helped develop new training programs for workers to gain new skills in research, data collection and analysis. This has allowed workers to grow in their current roles, and or allow them to move onto new opportunities. Making a positive impact is at the heart of what she does. Her people facing experience has made it easy to interact and relate to workers while developing support services that ensure success in TBL programs

Founder of Turning Basin Labs and Cooperative Director

Stephen is a serial social entrepreneur who has spent the last five years working on worker research, future of work, and workforce issues in the US. Stephen is the founder of Path Group, a Board member of Start.Coop, and founding Director of TBL. In founding TBL, Stephen pioneered and developed the Worker Researcher model in response to the COVID-19 epidemic and as a way to recognize the value of workers' insights. The Worker Research model is based on the Community Research model developed by TSIP and Centric in the UK. Stephen brings deep experience and the ability to engage at both the senior level and community level around the strands of this work. He brings deep experience in managing and overseeing large/complex programs and projects in the UK and US. He built, ran, chaired, and now advises a leading evaluation organization in the UK. Stephen has led and overseen a number of projects focused on capacity building and participatory research both in London, UK, and California, US.

Chief Financial Officer

Cooperative Director/ Board Director