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We’re a 100% BIPOC worker-owned cooperative

As we sought to build community-owned models for real estate, it was equally important for us to live into those democratic values within our company.

When each worker (member) shares in the ownership, where there is democratic participation in decision-making, and when we move in solidarity as workers in navigating the highs and lows of operating the business, there is a greater sense of unity, ownership and commitment. Investing the time and energy to achieve consensus on critical or urgent decisions, adapting the way we communicate and practice accountability as a collective, and overcoming our reflexes from traditional, hierarchical workplace structures are just a few of the ways we continue to grow and evolve.

What propels us forward are our collective values. We understand that to partner well with and support communities in their journey to shared ownership and collective governance of local assets, it’s important for us to live into those same values at an organizational level too

Nikishka Iyengar
(she/her)

Founder & CEO (Chief Ecosystem Officer)

Nikishka Iyengar
(she/her)

Founder & CEO (Chief Ecosystem Officer)

Nikishka has over a decade of experience in building the solidarity economy as an entrepreneur, consultant, organizer and writer. She uses a ‘systems thinking’ and emergent strategy approach across her work in finance, racial justice, urban development, and climate action. Nikishka believes “another world [beyond capitalism] is not only possible, she is on her way” (word to Arundhati Roy). She is a co-host and producer of the podcast Road to Repair and a Community Advisory Board member at the Olamina Fund. Nikishka has completed fellowships from UC Berkeley’s Terner Housing Lab, Aspen Institute, Common Future, Just Economy Institute, and was a 2016 “30 Under 30” Greenbiz leader in sustainability. As mama to two toddlers, spare time is a foreign concept, but Nikishka is passionate about weaving the same questions around our collective liberation that she applies across her work to her parenting.

Dani Brockington
(she/her)

Director of Storytelling & Engagement

Dani Brockington
(she/her)

Director of Storytelling & Engagement

Dani is a cultural worker with a focus on making space — literal and metaphorical — for Black love, joy, and leisure. She joined the team after first being a resident at The Guild. As Director of Storytelling & Engagement, she is focused on making the work of building alternative economic development models accessible and compelling so that everyone feels excited to join the movement.

Antariksh Tandon
(he/him)

Director of Development & Design

Antariksh Tandon
(he/him)

Director of Development & Design

Antariksh is an architect with over a decade of experience. He has a Master’s degree in Real Estate Development from Georgia Tech, and joined the team after doing his master’s capstone project on The Guild. As Development Director at The Guild, he is most interested in the design and development of cooperative and shared-equity forms of housing. Antariksh’s disciplinary interests in Finance, Policy, Architecture, and Urbanism, are undergirded by post-structuralist anarchist theory. In his spare time, Antariksh is an avid rock climber.