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 a political economist specializing in cooperative economics, community economic development and community-based asset building, solidarity economics, Black Political Economy, and community-based approaches to justice. She is a member of the Council of Cooperative Economists of NCBA/CLUSA; the International Co-operative Alliance Committee on Co-operative Research; a Faculty Fellow and Mentor with the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations; and an affiliate scholar with the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
(University of Saskatchewan, Canada). Gordon-Nembhard is also a past board member
of the Association of Cooperative Educators; and a member and 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.