Gabel Cramer

Gabel Cramer is an Operations and Archives Associate at the Schumacher Center. In his current role, Gabel is working to organize and archive material related to the early history of the Community Land Trust movement and the Institute for Community Economics (ICE), involving documents from alternative land management initiatives and cooperatives across the country and world. Gabel holds an MA in Community Development and Planning and BA in International Development from Clark University and has recently done work related to affordable housing development and social service provision, alternative approaches to agro-ecological systems, and political ecology as an analytical tool for examining socio-ecological issues and solutions. A recent graduate, Gabel is dedicated to work that promotes social and ecological justice, creativity, and radical approaches to land tenure, food systems, housing, and the arts.

When he is not working at the Schumacher Center, Gabel spends much of his time making pottery, his work focusing on natural patterns and fractal relationships between the elements, using ceramic design as a means to explore aesthetics, imaginations, and questions of the world. His work can be found at etcceramics.com.