The Modern Times Colletive

Modern Times Bookstore is a worker-run organization and has been ever since we opened our doors in 1971. We sincerely believe that Modern Times' collective management structure is what has allowed us to survive for so long. It is a structure that allows our staff to pour their creativity into a store that truly reflects the personalities of everybody who works here. We're also proud to be a part of NoBAWC (Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives). NoBAWC is a network of independent businesses just like ours striving to create dynamic, worker friendly, conscientious, alternative models of business.

Annie Danger - Annie has been with Modern Times Bookstore for two years and a few months. She started as a sub and in August of 2006 was hired as the new Financial Manager. She takes care of our finances, our window displays, our signs and our general aesthetic functioning.

Annie was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a desert rat at heart and a transsexual rights and water activist in her daily life. She spends her non-book time performing at clubs, shows, and cabarets; designing costumes; working with the Greywater Guerrillas to spread the word about DIY water activism and home plumbing; doing freelance illustration work, and doing her best to keep things messy (in the good way).

Janice Flux

Ruth Mahaney - Ruth is our children's book buyer and bill payer. She has been involved with the LGBT community for many years and has taught women's and queer studies at San Francisco State University, City College of San Francisco and New College of California. She is currently our oldest collective member, having joined the store in 1973.

Peta Pottinger

Rebecca Tumposky - Becca first fell in love with Modern Times after realizing that the two-shelf urban studies section carries nearly every Marxist urban theorist that has written a book. After an extended stint in subbing, she has recently joined the collective as the Institutional Sales Coordinator, through which she is developing her skills in the art of the sales hustle. Her other interests include left movement strategy, fashion, and swimming. She can often be found "shelving" children’s books.

Dia Vergados - An east coast transplant, Dia was raised in a mill city north of Boston by a family of diehard Yankees fans. Really. When not coordinating events, Dia is probably still thinking about coordinating events.