About this Event
Join the Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy for a breakfast series exploring the amazing solidarity economy enterprises that are black-led, black-centered and putting people, ecology and justice before private profit.
Kim Poole is a Soul-Fusion performing artivist, cultural strategist, and Executive Director of Teaching Artist Institute (TAI), an international cultural cooperative working across nine countries. Her practice uses art as a methodology for social and conflict transformation, cultural reparations, and community regeneration. For more than a decade, Poole has developed Cooperative Repair, a practice that applies shared ownership, collective restoration, and cultural memory to communities navigating historical harm and social division. Through TAI, she designs participatory research, glocal dialogues, arts co-production, cultural exchange, and training platforms across Global African and diasporic communities seeking accountable pathways toward lasting transformation. Poole has convened cultural diplomacy and peacebuilding dialogues connected to the United Nations, African Union, the Vatican, and universities exploring reparative futures. Her work demonstrates how artistic practice, cultural memory, and cooperative leadership can become practical infrastructure for healing, reconciliation, and the art of possibility in public life and institutional repair efforts.
A light breakfast will be provided to attendees at no cost. These complimentary breakfast items are typically bagels, fruit and coffee. In addition, items from Red Emma's menu will be available for purchase.
Event venue & nearby stays
Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 3128 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, United States
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