Welcome: Harold DeRienzo, The Parodneck Foundation
A message from our Chairperson-Irma Rodriguez
Program Overview: Rebecca Lurie, Community and Worker Ownership Project, School for Labor and Urban Studies, City University of New York.
Panel A:History and Context
Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, John Jay College, Department of Africana Studies, and author of Collective Courage, A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Topic: History of Housing Cooperatives and Potential for Growth and Support of the Cooperative Sector Generally
Ken Wray, Executive Director, The Parodneck Foundation
Topic: History of Housing Cooperatives and Potential for Growth and Support of the Cooperative Sector Generally
Gregory Jost, Banana Kelly and Fordham University
Topic: Historical Racism in the Government and Private Sector Housing Financing Sector and The Need to Address These Historical Discriminatory Practices
PANEL A Q&A SESSION
Panel B: Meeting Current and Future Needs
Sheryll Durrant, Just Food and Kelly Street Garden
Topic Growing Our Own Food: Community Gardens, Food Cooperatives and Community Supported Agriculture
Edward Garcia, Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
Topic: Local Control of Public Land
Athena Bernkopf, East Harlem/El Barrio Community Land Trust
Topic: Community Land Trustsy
PANEL B Q&A Session
Deyanira Del Rio, New Economy Project
TOPIC: Community Development Credit Unions, Public Banking, and Democratizing Finance
Emmanuel Pardilla, New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives
TOPIC: Worker Cooperatives
Ali Issa, Cooperative Economic Alliance of New York City
TOPIC: Cooperation Among Cooperatives
PANEL C Q&A Session
John Krinsky, City College
TOPIC: Wrap-up and Putting Together the Pieces-Guest Speaker:
