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