#2 - Dr. Jessica

Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized and widely published political economist specializing in cooperative economics, community economic development, racial wealth inequality, solidarity economics, Black Political Economy, popular economic literacy, and community-based approaches to justice. She is the author of the renowned book Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice as well as an inductee into the U.S. Cooperative Hall of Fame. Dr. Jessica currently serves as a Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development, in the Department of Africana Studies, at John Jay College (CUNY).