Tune in to WOL 1450 AM, 95.9 FM, or WOL Livestream on August 16, 2024 at 10:30 am EDT for Everything Co-op, hosted by Vernon Oakes. This week kicks off the commemoration of the 2024 Cooperative Hall of Fame inductees.
As we approach the Awards Ceremony on October 3, Vernon will interview each inductee. The first interview features Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, a professor at John Jay College and social justice advocate. Dr. Gordon Nembhard will discuss Nannie Helen Burroughs, who will be posthumously inducted as an Unsung Hero into the Cooperative Hall of Fame.
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 a Professor at John Jay College, City University of NY. She is a political economist specializing in cooperative economics, community economic development, racial wealth inequality, and Black Political Economy. She is a member of the Cooperative Economics Council of NCBA/CLUSA; the ICA Committee on Co-operative Research; an affiliate scholar with the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan; and a past board member of the Association of Cooperative Educators.
