Zahra Lightway, M.Ed., is the co-founder of Light Way Learning and creator of Famli, a family practice of consent-based democracy. She has studied and practiced sociocracy since the 1990s, training in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia with organizations including The Sociocracy Consulting Group and Sociocracy for All. Zahra has taught collaborative governance in intentional communities in Australia and Europe and presented at the Global Ecovillage Network European Gathering in Sweden. She also ran democratic learning programs for children in Texas, including a democratic micro school and three years of home-based Saturday programs and a summer camp.
