Jason Schneider

Jason was always told that he asked too many questions that didn't have answers. That he cared too much about things that didn't matter or weren't tangible. He hasn't stopped. He keeps asking why the world has to be this way and how we make it better from a systems approach, believing that how we do things is more important than the things we do.

He's lived in enough places, Oregon, Vietnam, Tonga, Italy, corners of the US that don't make sense together, to know that most of what we think of as "how things work" are just habits and systems that we're not questioning enough. Jason studied history and economics trying to understand how our world got to where it is and what tools we have to make it better.

He's tried to make impacts on these systems on local levels in many different roles. Jason's been a city councillor, a local and state government employee, a small business owner, and for the last several years, a consultant who gets hired to create productive discomfort in rooms where people have forgotten the meaning of being human, so that they relearn the value of collective decision-making and meaning making through connection.