Remaking the Economy: Owning Our Future

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.

Kamuela Enos is the director of the Office of Indigenous Innovation at the University of Hawai'i. Enos is a mixed-race Native Hawaiian, cis male, raised in the community of Wai'anae within the context of the Hawaiian Renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s—an Indigenous rights movement that continues today. He holds degrees in Hawaiian studies and urban and regional planning from the University of Hawai'i.

Rodney Foxworth is CEO of Common Future (formerly the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies [BALLE]), an organization based in Oakland, California, that works with foundations and nonprofit practitioners across North America to foster greater business ownership and wealth building in low-income communities and communities of color.

Emily Kawano is a founder and co-coordinator of the US Solidarity Economy Network and has served on the board of RIPESS (the Intercontinental Network for the Social Solidarity Economy) for almost a decade. She is codirector of the Wellspring Cooperative, which is developing a network of worker cooperatives and solidarity economy initiatives in Springfield, MA. Previously, Kawano was director of the Center for Popular Economics, has taught economics at Smith College, and has worked as the national economic justice representative for the American Friends Service Committee.

Esteban Kelly is the executive director for the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, founding president of the freelancer co-op Guilded, and a worker-owner and cofounder of AORTA (Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance). He is a Ford Global Fellow and was a founding board member of the US Solidarity Economy Network, the Democracy At Work Institute, and the cross-sector Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance. He currently serves on the boards of the National Cooperative Business Association, CLUSA International, Climate + Community Project, and the international worker co-op association known as CICOPA.