May your power be with you
Solidarity Economy – system change and sociocracy
Description
This participatory workshop will provide an intro to the solidarity economy, a values grounded framework aimed at transforming our economic, social and political systems beyond capitalism. The SE framework seeks to build and connect up a diverse set of concrete practices that align with SE values, and is a global movement. We will explore how sociocratic practices are and can be used to help build this movement.
Bio
Emily Kawano is a founder and co-coordinator of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network and served on the Board of RIPESS (the Intercontinental Network for the Social Solidarity Economy) for 9 years. She is the co-director of Wellspring Cooperative, which is developing a network of worker cooperatives and solidarity economy initiatives in the greater Springfield, MA region.
Emily received her Ph.D in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She served as the director, and remains a member of, the Center for Popular Economics, a collective of progressive economists that works to demystify the economy. She taught economics at Smith College and worked as the National Economic Justice Representative for the American Friends Service Committee. While working in N. Ireland, she founded a popular economics program with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
