Cooperative Ideals, Democratic Practice
A history of cooperation, race, and inclusion.
Enrollment Fee
$75
Sliding scale available upon request
Duration
2 sessions
Group Size
Max 20 participants
Next Session
October 7, 2026
Format
Live, facilitated
About This Workshop
Traces the long history of cooperative economics and democratic practice in Black and marginalized communities — from mutual aid societies and freedmen's cooperatives to contemporary solidarity economy movements. Participants examine how cooperative ideals have been used both to challenge and to reproduce racial exclusion, and what genuine democratic practice requires in the present.
"This workshop is designed for participants who want to move beyond surface-level critique and develop a rigorous, grounded analytical framework for understanding and challenging systems of power."
What You'll Cover
- Black mutual aid and cooperative history
- Freedmen's cooperatives and Reconstruction
- Race and exclusion in cooperative movements
- Solidarity economy and contemporary practice
- Democratic governance and shared power
Your Facilitator
LaDonna Sanders Redmond
Historian, Educator & Founder, The Abolitionist Challenge
LaDonna Sanders Redmond is a historian, educator, cooperative leader, and organizational consultant whose work explores the intersection of race, democracy, cooperative economics, restorative justice, and institutional transformation. For more than three decades she has worked with nonprofits, cooperatives, public institutions, and community leaders to build equitable organizations grounded in dignity, accountability, and shared power.
Credentials
- —Founder, The Abolitionist Challenge
- —Founder, Redmond Consulting
- —M.L.A. candidate in History, Harvard Extension School
- —Research focus: Black women's testimony before the 1871 Ku Klux Klan hearings
- —Nationally recognized speaker, facilitator, and public scholar
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Cooperative Ideals, Democratic Practice
2 sessions · Live, facilitated
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