Visiting Assistant Professor, Occidental College

Dr. Ry Brennan is delighted to be teaching environmental sociology at Occidental College this coming January.

Amitas LLC

Ry co-founded Amitas LLC, a consulting firm that works to assist local community-minded businesses and nonprofits with a range of needs, from program evaluation to meeting facilitation.

Building Trades-Environment-EJ Alliance

Ry Brennan founded a regional building trades, environmental, and environmental justice coalition covering California’s Central Coast that enables these groups to coordinate on regional energy projects.

Ethikli LLC

Ethikli Sustainable Market is LA County’s only vegan package-free grocery store, and Ry helped transition the company to a worker self-directed enterprise that is fully owned by its workers. As a member-owner, they perform bookkeeping functions, design workflows, manage orders, and give workshops.

Just Meetings

In 2023, Drs. Ry Brennan and Anthony Clairmont co-authored their first manuscript, Just Meetings. The text weaves together ethical philosophy, insights from organizational and decision theory, and their own experiences with nonhierarchical organizing into the first comprehensive and practical guide to consensus decision-making in decades.