New Video of Event in Boston

On Monday, May 5th, at Frugal Books in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein delivered a lecture entitled Our Kind of Investing: Cooperative Finance in the Hands of Black Women.

It was her first lecture as the Ujima Feminist Economics Fellow, and spoke about her book The Banker Ladies, and how Black and racialized women have long been at the forefront of informal banking systems, building collective wealth through mutual aid and cooperative finance, and how these historical practices continue to shape solidarity economies today.

This lecture was part of a series by the Boston Ujima Project entitled “Our Kind of Investing”. This project is grounded in the understanding that investment is cultural and political, the series explores what it means to invest with care, to share risk and reward across a community, and to reject extraction in favour of building toward justice, sovereignty, and one another. Through storytelling and study, Our Kind of Investing brings together practitioners and community members to reflect on investment as a practice of collective commitment.

Watch the full video below here, and see more about the event here!