Research Background & Team

Beloved Economies research is a collaborative, grassroots research initiative that ran from 2015 to 2022. The research began with a burning question: Why are we trapped in exhausting, harmful modes of working, and what is possible when we innovate out of them? Joanna Cea and Jess Rimington initiated the research through a shared short-term visiting scholar position at Stanford University and subsequently organized to continue the research as a grassroots endeavor spanning seven years, and bringing together multifaceted research collaborators. Each of these collaborators brought their own additional questions and insights to the table, which sharpened the emerging analyses through their input. Over time, sixty people from a wide array of teams and enterprises together formed a co-learning community that unearthed clear answers to the burning questions they continued to explore together.