Alanna Hartzok is the Administrative Director for the IU and for the IU’s team of United Nations’
representatives in consultation with ECOSOC – the UN’s Economic and Social Council. She has served the
Georgist movement in several capacities since 1980 and has given numerous lectures and presentations
on Georgist economics in many countries around the world. Alanna is a recipient of the International
Earth Day Award as well as the Radical Middle Book Award for her book, The Earth Belongs to Everyone.
Alanna was the Democratic Party candidate for the United States Congress for the state of Pennsylvania’s
9th District in 2014 and the Green Party candidate for the same office in 2001. She is a graduate of Ohio
Wesleyan University, studied for a year at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna, and has a Masters
Degree in Psychology plus several years of additional professional training as a psychotherapist.