Bio: 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 Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development, in the Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College, City University of NY. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Environmental Psychology and Geography Ph.D. Programs (Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center), and the Economics Masters Program (John Jay). Dr. Gordon-Nembhard is an internationally recognized and widely published political economist specializing in solidarity and cooperative economics, community economic development, racial wealth inequality, Black political economy, and community-based approaches to justice. Recipient of numerous awards in social economics and cooperative studies, she is a member of the International Co-operative Alliance Committee on Co-operative Research; an affiliate scholar with the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives (University of Saskatchewan, Canada); former adjunct with the International Centre for Co-operative Management (St. Mary’s University Halifax); and a past president of the National Economic Association.. She is the proud mother of Stephen and Susan, and the grandmother of Stephon, Hugo, Ismaél and Gisèle Nembhard.