Jerry Koch-Gonzalez

CNVC Certified Trainer from Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

Jerry Koch-Gonzalez is a Certified Trainer with CNVC. Jerry founded Pioneer Valley NVC and New England NVC (http://www.newenglandnvc.org), and has served on the NVC Global Community Circle. Jerry has been learning, practicing and teaching sociocracy/dynamic governance since 2005, and is a candidate for certification in sociocratic consulting. As an organizational development and group process consultant, Jerry shares dynamic governance through his business, Both-And Consulting (www.both-and.net). Jerry has been organizing, educating and consulting for social justice for more than 30 years. Jerry has been a senior trainer/faculty member with the National Coalition Building Institute, Movement for a New Society, DiversityWorks, the Cambridge Youth Peace & Justice Corps, Lesley College Center for Peaceable Schools, the Boston College Center for Social Justice, Spirit in Action, the Institute for Peaceable Communities, and Class Action. Jerry holds an M.Ed. in Organizational Development from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Jerry lives in the Pioneer Valley Cohousing Community in Amherst MA with his two children.