Brick by Brick: Black Financial Institution Building
Wed, Apr 22
|Virtual Event
Jessica Gordon-Nembhard will explore ways that Black cooperatives provide examples of vital money lineages. She will discuss how mutual aid associations and community development credit unions work, and other alternative financing strategies Blacks Americans have used throughout history.
Time & Location
Apr 22, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM
Virtual Event
About the event
Courtesy of Boston Ujima Project:
Facilitator Bio:
Author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice (2014), and 2016 inductee into the U.S. Cooperative Hall of Fame, Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Ph.D., is Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development, in the Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College, City University of NY. Dr. Gordon-Nembhard is an internationally recognized and widely published political economist specializing in cooperative economics, community economic development, racial wealth inequality, solidarity economics, Black Political Economy, popular economic literacy, and community-based approaches to justice. Recipient of numerous awards in social economics and cooperative studies, she is a member of the Cooperative Economics Council of NCBA/CLUSA; the International Cooperative Alliance Committee on Co-operative Research; a Faculty Fellow and Mentor with the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations; an affiliate scholar with the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives (University…
