Alli O'Connell and Kip Dooley, Barn Raiser

Alli O’Connell is a steward of social and environmental impact through social entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and storytelling. A native of rural North Carolina, and has worked extensively in Latin America and operates a social enterprise supporting women artisans in Guatemala. She studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kip Dooley is a writer and photographer of Irish, English, French and German settler heritage. His writing has appeared in The Wisconsin Idea, DCist, CityPages, US Lacrosse Magazine, and he is at work on a book with his mom, food writer Beth Dooley, for Milkweed Editions.