Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Current research interests:
- African American cooperatives
- Worker cooperatives
- Credit unions as community assets
- Youth cooperatives and co-op education
- Community-based asset building
Research topics:
- Cooperatives, Colonialism and Racism
- Wealth accumulation and asset building through co-operative ownership (starting with Credit Unions)
- A comparison between the development, functions, and accomplishments of Aboriginal/First Nations co-operatives and African American co-ops in Canada, and African-American- owned co-operatives in the USA.
Research methodologies:
Measuring the impact of cooperatives in US and Canada – designing surveys and questionnaires about the social and economic benefits to communities.
Biography:
See October 2010 Featured Researcher at Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan website: http://usaskstudies.coop/?page_id=1292 also John Jay Africana Studies Department faculty profile:http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/profiles/africanamerican.aspx?key=[email]=%27jnembhard@jjay.cuny.edu%27

Jessica Gordon Nembhard
John Jay College, City University of New York; and USask Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
Name: Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Institution: John Jay College, City University of New York; and USask Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
Phone: 646-557-4658
Email: jgordonnembhard@gmail.com