Erbin Crowell serves as Executive Director of the Neighboring Food Co-op Association (NFCA), a secondary co-operative of more than 40 food co-ops and start-ups with a combined membership of over 185,000 people across the Northeast United States. He brings more than 25 years of experience in the co-operative and Fair Trade movements, serves on the board of the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA CLUSA) and DotCooperation, and is a member of the Cooperative Identity Advisory Group of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA). Erbin received his Master of Management: Co-operatives & Credit Unions from Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia where he is an adjunct professor.