Audra Krueger is the Executive Director of Co-operatives First, a non-profit organization promoting the co-operative model in rural and Indigenous communities across western Canada. During her time at Co-operatives First, the organization has helped create over 100 co-ops and put hundreds of students through their co-op courses. Before joining Co-operatives First, Ms. Krueger was Research Liaison at the University of Saskatchewan’s Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives. Ms. Krueger has also researched and written on Mexican agrarian co-ops, which earned her a master’s degree in Collaborative International Development and Sociology from the University of Guelph.