Brook joined the ICA Group in 2024 as a Senior Cooperative Business Consultant on the Home Care Team. Prior to joining ICA, Brook worked in a home health training program for Latinx immigrants in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she connected home health aides to economic and leadership opportunities and helped develop a worker-owned home care cooperative. She also worked as a consultant supporting cooperatives in Albuquerque and rural New Mexico. Brook also has experience in adult education, facilitation, and training, and works to create spaces that are participatory, emergent, and allow for multiple ways of arriving at understanding. Their most recent organizing work has focused on community and alternative financing as a way to move resources, and is currently involved in bringing participatory budgeting to Albuquerque.
Brook has a BA in Biology and a Masters in Geography with a focus on solidarity economies.
I work on the home care team to transform the home care industry by strengthening existing home care cooperatives, supporting the development of new home care cooperatives, and scaling the home care cooperative sector and its impact on the care economy.
I have been able to support the development of ABQ Assisted Care en Comunidad, a worker-owned home health care cooperative, and Valley Abortion Group, a queer and BIPOC-led, employee-directed abortion clinic. With both, I have been so inspired by the commitment, dedication, persistence, and creativity of the members.
I work from home on unceded Tiwa lands in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A book that has impacted me is The Many Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. It details the histories of some of the many people that fought against the rise of global capitalism, colonialism, and the transatlantic slave trade. I find it helpful to ground in and take inspiration from the stories of those who have acted creatively and collectively to envision, struggle for, and create a better world.
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