As a Co-Operator
Trenda has always been excited by creative collaboration and over the last 3 years, she has come to understand just how essential the cooperative movement is. Prioritizing people over profits, the voices of those most impacted by decisions, and liberation for all of us she is thrilled to dream into reality community-based systems that address the need of home, health, & creativity.
The Founding Director and President of Willow Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, Trenda is honored to be working with an incredible team to develop this QTBIPOC founded and led, multi-stakeholder cooperative..This membership driven cooperative works to mobilize collective resources to develop community assets.
Find out more about that work HERE
A Worker-Owner of The Compost Co-operative, Trenda has the opportunity to collaborate with others who've been impacted by incarceration. The Compost Co-operative provides food scrap pick ups for residential and commercial customers. She takes lead on the Cooperative Affordable Housing Initiative in partnership with Oxbow Design Build Cooperative.
As a Consultant
As an Artist
With a B.A. from Smith College in Political and Social Theatre, Trenda has been working to integrate understandings of social issues and performance techniques since 2005. Some of her work includes acting in The Media Education Foundation Film “Flirting With Danger,” and the plays “Legal Tender: Women and the Secret Life of Money,” and “The Lonely Soldier Project.” She is the author of the short play “When The System Swallows You” and the children's theatre piece "And Then...A Quest For An Original Story." She is currently a governing member of Real Live Theatre Company based in Sunderland, MA.
