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= Sarah van Gelder = Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-at-large of YES! Magazine. Together with David Korten, she founded the nonprofit Positive Futures Network in 1996, based in Bainbridge, Island, WA.

Van Gelder writes regular columns for YES! Magazine, as well as for The Guardian and The Huffington Post. She lectures nationally and internationally, and interviews on radio and television. She has co-edited three books: Making Peace: Healing a Violent World; This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement; and Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference.

Early Life
Van Gelder was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She was raised by her Quaker parents to believe in the divinity of each person. At age 8, living in India with her parents, she became aware of the vast poverty and inequality in the world. This set her on a lifetime quest to understand the systemic causes of poverty and to figure out what people can do to change it.

Career
Before founding YES! Magazine, van Gelder was a television and radio producer, community organizer, and founder of a cooperative that linked organic farmers to urban food co-ops.

As founder and executive editor of YES! Magazine from 1996 to 2014, van Gelder led the framing and development of most issues of the magazine, and wrote a column introducing each issue. She writes regularly for YES! Magazine on topics including the new economy, climate solutions, alternatives to prisons, and happiness, and conducts interviews with notable figures like Secretary of State George Shultz, Ralph Nader , Naomi Klein Vandana Shiva, and Tim DeChristopher.

Van Gelder has been interviewed on PBS NewsHour, Thom Hartmann’s Big Picture, Democracy Now!, and Free Speech TV.

In August 2015 van Gelder took on the role of editor-at-large and embarked on a several month long road trip she is calling "The Edge of Change Road Trip." She is traveling around the United States to meeting people making grassroots change, blogging about what she learns, and ultimately plans to publish a book.

Other Work
Van Gelder helped found Winslow Cohousing, the first member-developed cohousing community in the United States, in 1989.

A non-Native resident of the Port Madison Indian Reservation, van Gelder co-founded Suquamish Olalla Neighbors in 2001 in response to the desecration of Chief Seattle's grave. In 2005, the organization of non-Native neighbors helped to return the waterfront park where Old Man House once stood to the Suquamish Tribe. She is a current board member of the Suquamish Foundation.