Webinar: Cooperatives after incarceration – a strategy for welcoming returning citizens

ChiFresh Kitchen is a worker-owned co-op founded by formerly incarcerated Black women in Chicago. [photo: Kai Brown/ChiFresh Kitchen]

Join the Interagency Working Group on Cooperative Development on Thursday, July 11 from 2-3:30 pm EDT to participate in a conversation among co-op developers, federal agency representatives and people concerned about mass incarceration and returning citizens. This webinar is part of the working group’s mandate issued by Congress to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to identify federal resources that could be used for co-op development and to educate federal agencies about the cooperative business model.

Our speakers include:

Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard – background about use of the co-op model in support of returning citizens
Revan Schendler – Compost Cooperative and Affordable Housing Initiative (Greenfield, Mass.)
Mary Sutton – Collective REMAKE (Los Angeles, Calif.)
John Bae – Second Chance Fellow, DOJ Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Vera Institute and author of Building Reentry Ecosystems: A Blueprint for Innovation

Share this content with your representative

New webinar: Join CDF’s Affordable Housing Initiative for a deep dive on the New York model

New report marks first research on social cooperatives designed for U.S. audience

Share This Post

Related Posts