Mar 11, 2014: Are You Loving Publishing Today: Jessica Gordon Nembhard interviewed in Colorlines
Jessica Gordon Nembhard, author of the forthcoming book Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, was recently interviewed on the daily news site, Colorlines.
Jessica Gordon Nembhard, author of the forthcoming book Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, was recently interviewed on the daily news site, Colorlines.
JESSICA GORDON NEMBHARD is Associate Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Department of Africana Studies at John Jay College, of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York City, USA. She recently completed a year as a visiting scholar in the Economics Department’s Center on Race and Wealth at Howard University, and was Master Teacher (July 2007 and 2009) at the Center’s Summer Institute for Research on Race and Wealth. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Centre for the Study of Cooperatives at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada (academic year 2008-09), and is a research affiliate for that Centre’s “Linking, Leverage, Learning: Social Enterprises, Knowledgeable Economies and Sustainable Communities” project, and co-investigator for the “Measuring the Impact of Credit Unions,” Community and University Research Partnerships project, at The Centre for the Study of Co-operatives.
Dr. Gordon Nembhard is a political economist specializing in community economic development, wealth inequality, Black political economy, popular economic literacy, and community justice. Her research has focused on community- and asset- based economic development and democratic community economics; cooperative economics and worker ownership; racial and economic wealth inequality and wealth accumulation in communities of color; and alternative urban economic and youth educational development strategies. Her future research and policy analyses will connect community-based economic development, asset building, and economic justice strategies with community-based approaches to justice.
Dr. Gordon Nembhard is a political economist specializing in community economic development, wealth inequality, Black political economy, popular economic literacy, and community justice. Her research has focused on community- and asset- based economic development and democratic community economics; cooperative economics and worker ownership; racial and economic wealth inequality and wealth accumulation in communities of color; and alternative urban economic and youth educational development strategies. Her future research and policy analyses will connect community-based economic development, asset building, and economic justice strategies with community-based approaches to justice.
