Alice Maggio
Schumacher Center for New Economics Local Currency Program Director
Great Barrington, MA
Alice Maggio is the Schumacher Center’s Local Currency Program Director. She is working to educate people in her own community and around the world about the potential of local currencies to serve as democratic tools for building more vibrant and resilient local economies.Alice has become a national and international advocate for non-profit, place-based currencies. She was interviewed by Paul Solmon for a story on the PBS NewsHour entitled “
What’s Minted in Berkshire County Stays There: Finding Reward in Local Currency,” as well as stories by
Al Jazeera America and
Truthatlas.com. In 2013 she presented a panel entitled “Community Supported Industry” at the Left Forum and at the New Economy Coalition’s ReRoute conference. She represented BerkShares on a panel at the 2nd International Conference on Complementary Currency Systems in 2013.Alice is especially engaged in the Berkshire region’s own local currency,
BerkShares. Since starting work for the Schumacher Center as the BerkShares Intern in May of 2012, she has developed an annual membership drive for BerkShares, Inc., organized two Annual Meetings, signed up more than 60 businesses to accept BerkShares, and spearheaded multiple BerkShares promotions and events.