Name: "CO-OPS, FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, AND LIBERATION" BY DR. JESSICA GORDON-NEMBHARD
Start: 2024-07-13T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-13T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 8324 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202-2561, United States

We proudly present “Co-ops, Food Sovereignty, and Liberation!” by Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, author of the classic book Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice. Dr. Gordon-Nembhard is a 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, where she is also Director of the McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. She is a political economist whose research focuses on community economic development and the solidarity economy.
Learn more about Dr. Gordon-Nembhard here https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/jessica-gordon-nembhard
DBCFSN is located on the Detroit Food Commons on the second floor. Enter from the parking lot door. The event is in the Mama Imani Humphrey Banquet Hall.