Jess Rimington

Research Co-Director and Co-facilitator of the Co-learning Community

Jess Rimington is a next-economy strategist, practitioner, and scholar focused on ethics and methodologies of emerging post-capitalisms. Her research and practice is grounded in historical analysis, accessible truth-telling, present-day prototyping, and imagination. Jess is a female small-business owner, and considers herself a microeconomic activist.

With Beloved Economies, Jess serves as co-director of the research and facilitator of the co-learning community; was lead author on the book Beloved Economies: Transforming how we work; and co-founded the campaign. In August 2022, Jess transitioned from being a member of the Beloved Economies campaign team to stepping into a role as a strategic partner through her longer-term work with Possible Futures. As a partner to BE, Jess offers experience in narrative change aimed at a just transition and connections to those leading the way in organic marketing.  

Since 2013, Jess has supported nonprofit and business enterprises in transforming their internal work practice to be  in alignment with their justice-oriented missions. Her applied work is informed by eleven years of experience leading two global nonprofit organizations–as both an Executive Director and Managing Director–building cross-cultural staff teams with innovative work cultures in alignment with post-capitalist frameworks. 

From 2015 to 2019, Jess served as a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Global Projects Center, co-facilitating the research effort that would later come to be called Beloved Economies. In applying this research, she has co-led several multi-stakeholder co-creation processes amongst finance, philanthropic, government, small business, and community actors focused on developing new models of economic interaction grounded in emerging, next-system values. 

You can learn more about her work here.