Trenda Marie Loftin
Co-operator| Consultant | Director, Playwright & Artivist | REALTOR®
While she often finds herself working on various projects, she finds time to enjoy the sunshine, write, strum her guitar, and catch up with friends and family. She is grateful for those people who help to keep her feeling positive, hopeful, engaged, and motivated to stir things up.
While she often finds herself working on various projects, she finds time to enjoy the sunshine, write, strum her guitar, and catch up with friends and family. She is grateful for those people who help to keep her feeling positive, hopeful, engaged, and motivated to stir things up.
As a co-operator
Trenda has always been excited by creative collaboration and over the last 3 years, she has come to understand just how essential the cooperative movement is. Prioritizing people over profits, the voices of those most impacted by decisions, and liberation for all of us she is thrilled to dream into reality community-based systems that address the need of home, health, & creativity.
The Founding Director and President of Willow Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, Trenda is honored to be working with an incredible team to develop this QTBIPOC founded and led, multi-stakeholder cooperative..This membership driven cooperative works to mobilize collective resources to develop community assets.
Find out more about that work HERE
A Worker-Owner of The Compost Co-operative, Trenda has the opportunity to collaborate with others who've been impacted by incarceration. The Compost Co-operative provides food scrap pick ups for residential and commercial customers. She takes lead on the Cooperative Affordable Housing Initiative in partnership with Oxbow Design Build Cooperative.
The Founding Director and President of Willow Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, Trenda is honored to be working with an incredible team to develop this QTBIPOC founded and led, multi-stakeholder cooperative..This membership driven cooperative works to mobilize collective resources to develop community assets.
Find out more about that work HERE
A Worker-Owner of The Compost Co-operative, Trenda has the opportunity to collaborate with others who've been impacted by incarceration. The Compost Co-operative provides food scrap pick ups for residential and commercial customers. She takes lead on the Cooperative Affordable Housing Initiative in partnership with Oxbow Design Build Cooperative.
As a consultant
She is committed to providing various strategies for critical thinking, self, community, and world reflection, and instigating positive change. She believes very much in the power of storytelling to not only to shed light on reality but as a way to envision the world we wish to live in. She believes that the most effective changes come through education, understanding how identities intersect to affect our experiences of the world, and a commitment to compassionate dialogue and effective action plans.
As an artist
With a B.A. from Smith College in Political and Social Theatre, Trenda has been working to integrate understandings of social issues and performance techniques since 2005. Some of her work includes acting in The Media Education Foundation Film “Flirting With Danger,” and the plays “Legal Tender: Women and the Secret Life of Money,” and “The Lonely Soldier Project.” She is the author of the short play “When The System Swallows You” and the children's theatre piece "And Then...A Quest For An Original Story." She is currently a governing member of Real Live Theatre Company based in Sunderland, MA.
As a realtor
Trenda prioritizes the human-ness of all parties involved through direct communication grounded in kindness in her work as a REALTOR®. She moves with the understanding that safe, secure, and affordable housing is a RIGHT not a privilege while wrestling with the realities that homeownership is still one of the most effective ways of building intergenerational wealth and security AND YET, we're buying/selling stolen and colonized land. Anchoring in the belief that we cannot own land but can own our homes. You can follow her real estate journey here
REALTOR® with Coldwell Banker Community Realtors based in Northampton, MA supporting individuals and collectives with their real estate journeys throughout Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties in Massachusetts.
REALTOR® with Coldwell Banker Community Realtors based in Northampton, MA supporting individuals and collectives with their real estate journeys throughout Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties in Massachusetts.
