This week Vernon interviews Camille Kerr, Founder & principal of Upside Down Consulting. Vernon and Camille will discuss cooperative startup development, ChiFresh, and her efforts to support the social justice movements.
Camille Kerr is working to build a democratic economy in service to U.S. social justice movements including organizations advancing Black liberation, immigrant rights, food justice, and the U.S. labor movement. Through the consulting firm she founded, Upside Down Consulting, Camille works to replace our current economic system with a solidarity economy that centers life, care for one another, and justice. She specializes in cooperative startup development, managing complex worker-centered initiatives, supporting existing businesses to become worker-owned, as well as policy advocacy and drafting.
In partnership with Chicago organizers, Camille helped found ChiFresh Kitchen, a worker cooperative food service contracting business, owned and determined primarily by formerly incarcerated women living in the south and west sides of Chicago. Camille is also a board member of Shared Capital Cooperative, Urban Growers Collective, EG Woode, Obran Cooperative, and the Interaction Institute for Social Change.
