CII Board Members
Rahmin Sarabi
Rahmin is dedicated to creating a world that supports the thriving of all life. He brings a human-centered approach and systemic orientation to his work, with a background in mission-driven consumer startups and the non-profit sector. His roles span product management, design research, and people operations leadership.
He is currently focused on supporting systemic impact through client projects that include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with additional research interests in deliberative democracy and collective intelligence processes to help groups of people wisely address challenges at the community to national scale.
Rahmin was part of the early team at Good Eggs where, through human-centered design methods, they discovered how they could create a consumer business that grew and sustained local food systems. He also was the Head of People & Culture at Opendoor, exploring how culture, operational systems, and leadership can adapt during hypergrowth so its people and the organization continue to thrive.
Rahmin has a BS in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering from Duke University.
Sita Magnuson
Sita has over two decades experience in the fields of process co-design, facilitation, and visualization. She has worked all over the globe facilitating creative and collaborative approaches to dialogue and complex decision-making at all scales.
She has worked in a wide variety of contexts—from global convenings of world leaders grappling with climate change, food insecurity, and managing the spread of disease across borders; to national networks developing equitable pathways from school to career; to bio-regional groups exploring the possibilities of place-based regenerative development; to local community groups navigating the challenges of access to housing. Much of her work now is focused on organizational learning, community development, and experimenting with adaptive architecture and knowledge curation for global communities of practice.
She has piloted a number of municipal experiments that offer scaffolding for a radical reconfiguring of relationships—opening opportunities and invitations for community members to redefine their understanding of themselves; one another; democracy; and to claim their agency as active co-creators of place and community. Learn more about her latest experiment in reimagining civic engagement and community-driven decision-making.
https://www.dpict.co/
Andy Paice
Andy Paice is a participatory democracy facilitator, convener, and consultant based in London, England. His interest in facilitating group conversations began with involvement in democracy campaigns in the early 2010s. Experiences of collective breakthroughs in group discussions ignited a desire to learn more about facilitation and how communities and societies come to mutually beneficial outcomes. This led him to discover Tom Atlee’s work and in 2017 he attended the Institute’s “Ways to a Wiser Democracy” online course.
Since then, inspired by frequent interactions with Tom, he endeavors to integrate Co-Intelligence principles into his work with local municipalities. This has included designing a series of over 40 community assemblies in the London Borough of Newham, public engagements using the Pol.is interactive survey tool, facilitating Citizens’ Assemblies and deliberative forums on diverse issues such as Climate Change, the Future of Britain after the EU referendum, Digital Ethics and Assisted Dying.
He is also passionate about working with different ways of knowing and has experience with modalities like Dynamic Facilitation, Theory U, Voice Dialogue, and Deep Democracy. In the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, Andy was a Buddhist monastic in a community in France. Nowadays when not doing democracy-related activities he enjoys swimming, cycling, and gardening. www.andypaice.net
Tom Atlee
Tom founded the Co-Intelligence Institute (CII) in 1996 to provide an organizational means to manifest ideas and possibilities he had been researching since the Great Peace March in 1986, as represented by the articles on this website.
An avid writer, activist and community volunteer since the late 1950s, Tom has been involved in many citizens groups and publications, particularly around peace, democracy, and public participation.
He has served on several nonprofit boards and has consulted internationally. His book The Tao of Democracy has sold several thousand copies in more than a dozen countries and his articles have been published in dozens of alternative journals. The websites he has built are visited by thousands of visitors every month.
Tom specializes in creating inspiring, useful ideas and resources and helping change agents think strategically about transforming social systems.
He lives in a co-op house in Eugene, OR, with a changing population of about ten friendly people, several dogs and cats, a flock of chickens, many plants, and thousands of books.
He is motivated by a vision of a civilzation capable of sustainable functioning, conscious evolution, and tremendous meaning, joy and quality of life.
For further biographical and bibliographical information on Tom and his ideas, click here
Jennifer Atlee
Jennifer Atlee is a green building professional, climate justice activist, gardener, regenerative homesteader, and parent. Jennifer has decades of experience supporting sustainable and regenerative practices in building design, construction, and manufacturing industries. She is active in climate and racial justice organizing, with an eye toward shifting economy and culture in regenerative and liberatory ways.
At 10 years old, Jennifer joined the great peace march that sparked Tom’s co-intelligence journey. She started paying deeper attention to her father’s work only after many years observing how group processes could make or break initiatives she was involved in. She was motivated to join the board after it became unavoidably clear that how we collectively govern our affairs underlies our ability to address everything else she cares about.
Jennifer brings strategic and operational capacity and a commitment to bringing wise democracy to life in the world. She is passionate about cultivating capacity in the change ecosystem through supporting practitioners engaged in related experimentation, uplifting the work of indiginous peoples and communities engaging in effective wise governance and systems change by other names, and helping multi-stakeholder networks and communities work well together in implementing a practical and transformative climate justice agenda.
As a living being, time outdoors with more-than-human kin is her nonnegotiable counterpoint to computer-based systems change work. She lives in Nipmuc land in the Connecticut River Valley, in Western Massachusetts.
Adin Rogovin
Adin has 30 years of varied experience as a corporate manager including 10 years as Chief Financial Officer. He has 17 years of service on non-profit Boards and Staff including, The Home of Truth Spiritual Center, Seven Generations Land Trust, Lost Valley Educational Center, Parker Street Coop, The Natural Heritage Institute, The Eugene Children's Peace Academy, The Center for Wise Democratic Processes, Climate Neutral Network, and The Co-Intelligence Institute.
Adin's passion is promoting wise collective process and transforming democracy and civic governance through developing, teaching, and implementing citizen deliberative councils and integrated process design.
He is co-founder of the Eugene Facilitator's Collective and is a trained Dynamic Facilitator who has worked with The Blue Mountain School, Alpha Farm Community, The Veterans for Peace, Trillium Hollow Cohousing, The New Orleans Community Congress II, and the Pleasantville, NY Great Oak Council. Adin organized The Lane County Low-Income People's Wisdom Council and the Walnut Street Coop, a coop house in Eugene.