Alice Maggio is the Executive Director at BerkShares, Inc., as well as Director of Programs at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. Since 2012 she’s worked with the board of BerkShares, now in its 11th year, to use the currency as a tool for local economic development. Maggio has represented the currency in places around the world, including conferences in New York City, Barcelona and the Hague. After earning a B.A. in Sociology and French Studies at Wesleyan, she went on to bake pies in Brooklyn, teach English in the Alps, and cook Basque food in Manhattan before returning to the Berkshires. She serves on the boards of the Berkshire Children’s Chorus, the Berkshire United Way and the 1Berkshire Strategic Alliance, as well as the Community Advisory Board for WAMC Northeast Public Radio. Read more about Alice Maggio and her involvement throughout the greater community >>
