Economic Justice: Best of 2023, Editors’ Selections

Steve Dubb is senior editor of economic justice at NPQ, where he writes articles (including NPQ’s Economy Remix column), moderates Remaking the Economy webinars, and works to cultivate voices from the field and help them reach a broader audience. Prior to coming to NPQ in 2017, Steve worked with cooperatives and nonprofits for over two decades, including twelve years at The Democracy Collaborative and three years as executive director of NASCO (North American Students of Cooperation). In his work, Steve has authored, co-authored, and edited numerous reports; participated in and facilitated learning cohorts; designed community building strategies; and helped build the field of community wealth building. Steve is the lead author of Building Wealth: The Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems (Aspen 2005) and coauthor (with Rita Hodges) of The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crossroads, published by MSU Press in 2012. In 2016, Steve curated and authored Conversations on Community Wealth Building, a collection of interviews of community builders that Steve had conducted over the previous decade.

Rithika is the former Economic Justice Editor at Nonprofit Quarterly. She lives and writes in Providence, where she is finishing her dissertation on representations of work in nineteenth century novels. She is the first elected president of the graduate student union at Brown, GLO-AFT Local 6516, and a founding member of Reclaim RI, a grassroots organization dedicated to building people power in the ocean state. She has work in Teen Vogue, Lux Magazine, The Drift, The Baffler, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice, and elsewhere. Rithika left NPQ in April 2024 to become the new Director of Communications at The Climate and Community Project.