Join us during our bi-weekly online book study throughout 2020 led by Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice 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. Dr. Gordon-Nembhard is also a member of the Council of Cooperative Economists of the National Cooperative Business Association/CLUSA; and the International Co-operative Alliance Committee on Co-operative Research; as well as a member of the board of directors of: Green Worker Cooperatives, Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter, Organizing Neighborhood Equity DC, and Southern Reparations Loan Funds; and past board member of the Association of Cooperative Educators. She is the proud mother of Susan and Stephen, and the grandmother of Stephon, Hugo, and Ismaél Nembhard.