Join the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Interagency Working Group on Cooperative Development on January 15 at 1 p.m. EST for a meeting on what U.S. cooperatives can learn from these highly successful ecosystems. Are there U.S. communities already applying the lessons from Mondragon and Emilia Romagna?
The meeting will feature a panel of distinguished speakers including:
- Frederick Freundlich, professor at Mondragon University
- Francesca Federzoni, CEO of Politecnica Cooperative in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Matthew Hancock, author of Compete to Cooperate on the Emilia-Romagna cooperative ecosystem
- Christina Clamp, Cooperative Hall of Fame member whose Mondragon scholarship informs the operation of worker cooperatives in the U.S.
- Eric Britton, attorney and author of “Selling to Your Employees Through a Worker Cooperative“
- Deborah Groban Olson, an attorney whose life’s work has been to bring Mondragon principles to the U.S.
Simultaneous interpretation in Spanish will be available.