Kaleb Hoeffgen & John McNamara

John joined the Northwest Cooperative Development Center (NWCDC) in the Spring of 2014 and became Co-Executive Director in January 2023. Prior to joining NWCDC, John has 26 years of practical experience in the worker cooperative world with Union Cab of Madison.  John holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration and a Masters in Management: Cooperative and Credit Unions from Saint Mary’s University (Halifax) and now teaches in the Master’s program as part-time faculty.  John participated in developing the Co-op Index Tool and has taught at The Evergreen State College and Presidio Graduate School. He co-edited a collection of essays titled Co-operatives for Sustainable Communities (2015) with a chapter on Social Auditing and wrote a chapter in Humanistic Governance in Democratic Organizations (2022). John serves as Vice-Chair of the Washington State Employee Ownership Commission and Co-Chair of the Washington State Center for Employee Ownership and serves on Executive Committees of the Union-Coops Council and the Policy and Advocacy Council of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. As co-director of NWCDC, John heads the education and general cooperative development programs and the communications and networking teams for NWCDC.