Karissa Frolov
CEAD Program Associate
Karissa’s passion lies is in our relationship with the earth and understanding it is critical to take into account our impact or our relationship with the environment around us. Her commitment deepens our capacity to embed sustainability concepts into CEAD programming at Collective REMAKE.
Karissa started taking Collective REMAKE’s workshops in 2022 and went on to complete the Train-the-Trainer program in 2023. As our CEAD Program Associate, Karissa is one of our lead co-facilitators for the Introduction CEAD workshop series. She is also supporting the Train-the-Trainer program to bring in future Cooperative Education facilitators and expand Collective REMAKE’s capacity to reach more people.
Mary Sutton, Design and Management
Founder and Board Member
Sutton has been an activist most of her life working in the anti-apartheid movement in Minneapolis, and more recently, in Los Angeles, in the local and statewide coalition work to stop prison and jail expansion. She designed Collective REMAKE in the MA in Urban Sustainability program at Antioch University Los Angeles; and now works at Collective REMAKE to promote cooperative education and development programs and the implementation of democratic participatory practices. Sutton has over 25 years experience in non-profit management, development, and programming. She is also a graphic designer, and print production artist. In July 2025, she earned her PhD in Leadership and Change at Antioch University.
Charlene Tan
Co-operative Business Development
Charlene is a food sovereignty advocate. She’s most proud of co-founding and co-nurturing Good Food Community, a social enterprise that promotes solidarity economy and food activism through community shared agriculture in the Philippines. The almost 15 years of growing this grassroots, democratically-run community organization has informed her sense of possibility and purpose. Witnessing the precarity of small holder farmers has made the words ‘organized abandonment’ real to her. Showing up week after week for collective labor, nourishment and struggle has demonstrated the meaning of kinship and care. And building the organizational conditions for agency, equity and autonomy– this is life-giving joy. She is thrilled to be able to offer her experience and energy as a Co-op Business Development Manager of Collective REMAKE.