Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard discusses how Co-ops are being used to Build Back Better. Vernon interviews Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Ph.D., Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development at John Jay College of the City University of New York. Vernon and Dr. Gordon-Nembhard will discuss the International Day of Co-operatives, and the role of cooperatives in a post-COVID-19 World. Dr. Gordon Nembhard, is Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development at John Jay College, of the City University of New York; Author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, and a 2016 inductee into the U.S. Cooperative Hall of Fame. She is an affiliate scholar at the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, where she is co-investigator for the Measuring the Impact of Credit Unions Community and University Research Partnerships (CURA) Project; and an affiliate scholar with the Economics Department’s Center on Race and Wealth at Howard University. Dr. Gordon Nembhard is a political economist specializing in community economics, Black Political Economy, and popular economic literacy. Her research and publications explore problematics and alternative solutions in cooperative economic development and worker ownership, community economic development, wealth inequality, and community-based asset building, and community-based approaches to justice.
