This event was recorded live. As some feminist epistemologists (Gilligan, Belenky et al.) have taught us, seeing and seeking connections seems to be women’s ways of knowing. Our economics is lived in real complex communities. Our goal is to model how women can talk together and learn together about traditionally male territory still new to most women. Together we can construct a fuller knowledge and set of values now omitted from the mainstream “free market.” To that end, we're making the webinar—and will make all of them moving forward—available here for viewing forevermore.
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Join dynamic women to learn about ways to create more resilient communities through revolving credit circles, cooperative businesses, trade agreements, services, and more. Women often lead these local efforts that economists traditionally call “informal,” but why? Would becoming more “formal,” as some are now urging, improve mutual trust and security, or undermine it?
ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein is Associate Professor of Global Development and Political Science at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Founder of the Diverse Solidarity Economies (DiSE) Collective pushing for equitable economies, elected board member to the International Association of Feminist Economics, and editorial board member to the U.N. Task Force for the Social and Solidarity Economy. Dr. Hossein is the author of Politicized Microfinance, co-author to Critical Introduction to Business and Society, and editor of The Black Social Economy, and she has a forthcoming co-edited book, Community Economies in the Global South.
Katonya Hart belongs to several nonprofit organizations, including the West Virginia NAACP, the CARE Coalition, and NOW’s National Board. She’s also a community activist working with West Virginia’s Commission on Women and its Economic Empowerment group.
Crystal Arnold is the founder of Money-Morphosis, director of education at the Post Growth Institute, creator and host of the Money-Wise Women podcast, and a financial coach, inspirational speaker, and group facilitator. Her written work has appeared in journals, magazines, and in the book called Reinhabiting the Village.
Rickey Gard Diamond—author of Screwnomics: How Our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change and the “Women Unscrewing Screwnomics” column at Ms. magazine, and founder of AEOO—will facilitate the shared conversation.
ABOUT THE SERIES:
Our Zoom of Own Series brings women (and men!) together to construct a fuller knowledge and set of values now omitted from the mainstream “free market.” Together, we're flipping the script on a racist, sexist economy. Registrants receive a curriculum for further learning on the subjects covered and be able to submit questions to the panelists live and in advance.