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Jennifer Ladd, Co-Founder and Staff Associate
Jennifer Ladd, Ed.D. is warm, straightforward and resourceful. She is an  experienced coach, facilitator, philanthropic advisor and diversity trainer working to support individuals and organizations in achieving their goals. She has worked with people with earned and inherited wealth for over 25 years. She has a doctorate in education and has spent many years in elementary education and teacher training in the fields of global, cross-cultural communication and anti-bias education. She works closely with Responsible Wealth, a program of United for a Fair Economy.
Chuck Collins
Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy (IPS) and directs IPS’s Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is an expert on U.S. inequality and author of several books, including Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity (New Press, 2005). He coordinates a national effort to preserve the federal estate tax, our nation’s only tax on inherited wealth. He co-authored with Bill Gates Sr., Wealth and Our Commonwealth, a case for taxing inherited fortunes.
In 1995, he co-founded United for a Fair Economy (UFE) to raise the profile of the inequality issue and support popular education and organizing efforts to address inequality. In 1997, he co-founded Responsible Wealth, a project of UFE to bring together business leaders and investors to publicly speak out against economic policies and corporate practices that worsen economic inequality. He was Executive Director of UFE from 1995-2001 and Program Director until 2005.
Zoe Greenberg, Filmmaker
Zoe is the Writer/Director/Producer of "Enough: A Kid's Perspective", an  11-minute documentary film that explores issues of wealth, poverty, and what is "enough" through interviews with Philadelphia kids. She made the film when she was twelve, but she is
sixteen now, and a junior at Springside School in Philadelphia. After the film was made, she teamed up with Felice Yeskel and co-led workshops for both kids and adults about the film and the issues it raises.
Her work garnered her the 2007 Princeton Prize for Race Relations in the city of Philadelphia. She has been featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Jewish Exponent, and some other
places too. This year she is presenting to local teachers at the Multi-Cultural Resource Center in Philadelphia, as well as co-leading a workshop at the National Association of Independent Schools. She was inspired by Demetri Martin on the Daily Show and
has now become Class Action's trendspotter.
Alan Preston, MBA 
Alan is an independent consultant and experienced group facilitator who specializes in inspiring deep personal reflection and cultivating cross-class dialogue. Alan grew up with the advantages of class, race, and gender and is committed to using his privilege to challenge the growing economic inequality in society.
Alan has designed and facilitated programs around class, wealth and leadership for progressive foundations, giving circles, churches and nonprofit organizations. Alan draws on his training in the methods of Dr. Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage & Renewal in creating safe spaces for people to explore and talk about difficult issues such as money, class and power.
Alan has worked in the business, public and nonprofit sectors. Most recently he worked for four years as a philanthropy consultant and is himself active in several philanthropic networks (Social Venture Partners Seattle, Tides Center and Social Justice Fund Northwest.) His personal experience in philanthropy informs his professional practice.
Peter Redington
Peter grew up in the historical, affluent town of Concord, Massachusetts before embarking on a journey into education that has taken him from the Social Studies classroom of the rural North Country town of Canaan, Vermont to the ropes courses of the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in the Boston Harbor. Somewhere along the way, he heard someone talking about privilege and oppression, and he hasn’t been able to stop thinking about that since.
He lives down a dirt road in Wendell with his wife and dog. When not discussing social justice issues, they enjoy following the Red Sox, reading by the woodstove, and wandering about in the woods.
Peter writes about class and is currently gathering stories from people across the class spectrum.
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