Why it matters that folks engaged in economic justice confront white privilege.
The Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance’s co-op business developers are creating a promising environment for bridging racial disparities in economic terms.
“I never lacked for anything,” Jamila Medley says of her childhood in Brooklyn in the eighties and nineties. But it was there that she “met grandmothers taking care of two or three grandkids with an annual income of $5000, my first introduction to poverty at that scale.”
“This discovery and her own desire to be of service led her to work in the nonprofit world—aiding the homeless, those in recovery or ill from cancer—while earning an MS in Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania.
“But a later position at Mariposa Food Co-op in West Philadelphia exposed her to a different model. No longer helping people, she’s now empowering them to create a thriving co-operative economy.”
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