Meet Darren Mozenter:

Darren Mozenter is the Northern Regional Director for the Minnesota Center for Employee Ownership, a free hub for information and resources on all forms of employee ownership, including employee stock ownership plans, employee ownership trusts, and worker-owned cooperatives.

Passionate about social justice issues, Darren is directly responsible for developing strategic, community-based partnerships, as well as expanding the organization’s presence in the Northland through community conversations, lunch and learns, panel discussions, town hall meetings, and topical webinars.

Prior to joining MNCEO, Darren was a Worker-Owner at the Arizmendi Bakery in Oakland, Calif., where he helped to grow the business by 400%, while simultaneously creating internal structures that solidified operations and governance. Earlier in his career, he served as an Operational Support Associate at the eight-member Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives (AAC), where his team successfully brought back one partner from the brink of disbanding to being a profitable business with solid internal systems, processes, and high morale.