In Pursuit of Black Wealth: A Panel Discussion

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About the panelists:

Jessica Gordon-Nembhard,

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 and community-based asset building, racial wealth inequality,  solidarity economics, Black Political Economy, and community-based approaches to  justice. She is co-editor, for example, with Ngina Chiteji of Wealth Accumulation and  Communities of Color (University of Michigan Press 2006). Recipient of numerous  awards in social economics and cooperative studies, she is a member of the Cooperative  Economics Council of NCBA/CLUSA; the International Co-operative Alliance Committee  on Co-operative Research; a Faculty Fellow and Mentor with the Institute…