CROWN LETTER: DR. MARIAELENA HUAMBACHANO

Builder Crown - Power to the People Initiative

Liana Banyan Corporation

To: Dr. Mariaelena Huambachano From: Jonathan Jones, Founder Date: March 5, 2026 Re: Invitation: Serve as a “Builder Crown” for a new cooperative infrastructure

Dear Dr. Huambachano,

My name is Jonathan Jones, and I’m building Liana Banyan, a cooperative marketplace and incubator meant to support exactly the kind of work you already do: people building real things—food systems, tools, and businesses—who want to keep value and control close to home.

Our design is simple:

  • Creators and communities own their own IP.
  • Pricing is transparent and fair (cost + a capped margin).
  • Value created on the platform flows back in credits and distributions to the people doing the work.

We’re pairing that economic design with a symbolic governance structure we call the Dual-Crown:

A Door-Opening Crown, from the worlds of co-ops, community finance, and shared infrastructure.

A Builder Crown, from the worlds of local agriculture, Indigenous food sovereignty, open hardware/software, and maker culture.

These crowns do not govern as kings or queens; they anchor two traditions that often disagree on politics, but agree on this:

Local communities should be able to grow their own food, make their own products, and own their own platforms. The people who do the work should keep the upside.

I am writing to ask whether you would consider serving as one of our founding Builder Crowns. Concretely, that would involve:

  1. Allowing us to name you (or your organization) as a Builder Crown on our Power to the People page,
  2. Joining 1–2 conversations a year about how to make the infrastructure actually useful for people growing food / building tools / running co-ops, and
  3. Giving us permission to describe Liana Banyan as guided, in part, by the same practical sovereignty you’ve modeled in your work.

This is not a fundraising request and not a political endorsement. It’s an invitation to help shape neutral infrastructure that can quietly support many different communities, while staying rooted in the values you already live: reverence for the land, respect for people, and resilience through shared work.

If this resonates, I’d be honored to send more detail and schedule a conversation.

With gratitude,

Jonathan Jones Founder, Liana Banyan Corporation Founder@LianaBanyan.com 406-578-1232

There is a walkthrough at LianaBanyan.com/RedCarpet. No scheduling, no pitch deck, no salesman.

Help each other help ourselves.

As You Wish.

How We Amplify You

Liana Banyan amplifies the people it serves. We drive our audience to your storefronts, your channels, your practices. We don’t ask you to be our billboard. We ask to be your megaphone.

The louder you get, the louder we get — because your success is our revenue, and our revenue is your influence.

We amplify you. You amplify makers. Makers amplify their communities. Everyone gets louder together.

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