Alexander Kolokotronis is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Yale University. He is the founder of the Student Organization for Democratic Alternatives and formerly the student coordinator of the NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives. Prior to enrolling at Yale, he was a worker cooperative development assistant at Make the Road New York. Kolokotronis’ scholarly interests are in participatory democracy, participatory budgeting, worker cooperatives, and democratic theory as well as workers’ self-management, anarchism, and institutional design. alexander.kolokotronis@yale.edu