Biography

Sol Kinnis, B.A., DipRNS

Sol brings to the institute a passion for co-operatives as a tool for social and economic justice. Sol's role at the institute is to help researchers, co-operators and community members access our tools and publications and help direct them to other available resources on co-operatives. In addition to this, Sol co-ordinates the Saxena Library for Co-operative Studies; is the production co-ordinator of the BCICS newsletter, the Anthill, manages our website content and co-ordinates the institute's conferences and speaker's series.

Sol's major contributions to the Institute have been: co-organizing the Ethical Purchasing Forum (2007), the Remaking the Economy Forum (2009) and the 6th Annual Building Co-operative Futures Conference (2008) with the BC Co-operative Association; editing Co-operatives by Design: Building Blocks for Co-op Development, a guidebook for developing co-operatives; and researching the current status of the co-operative housing movement.

Outside of the BCICS, Sol is a director of a new non-profit housing development co-operative in Victoria -the Roofs and Roots Housing Co-operative, which is the first new non-profit housing co-op in Victoria in over 10 years. Sol is also involved as a member of the newly forming South Islands Regional Co-op Council.

Sol is the proud member of six co-operatives in Victoria and is now able to meet her families' financial, housing, transportation, pre-school and outdoor adventure needs through the co-op model. Her greatest love is her 5 year old daughter.