Dr. Hossein was interviewed for the podcast Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier

Dr. Hossein was interviewed on Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier. Among millions of Black women in Africa, the Caribbean, and North America, ROSCAs, or 'rotating savings and credit associations are trusted alternatives to racialized exclusionary systems of formal banking.

In Canada, the Banker Ladies hide what they do because anti-Black racism makes it such that Black women are scared to share what they do because their informal money coops are denigrated and viewed with skepticism - Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein.

Dr. Hossein was interviewed on Cooperatives and Campuses by Prof Michelle Stack at UBC about ROSCAs as coops.

A follow up opinion piece on the interview with Ottawa painter and construction worker Kensha Spaulding has been written by Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein in The Hill Times.

Dr. Hossein outlines the problems faced my Black and racialized Canadians in the banking system, and steps needed to make a difference towards equality of treatment and equality of access.

The inaugural 3-day summer workshop at the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences is bringing together scholars in the social sciences, leaders and practitioners in nonprofits and philanthropy, and organizers embracing solidarity economy and mutual aid models to discuss the past and present of social science funding within and beyond the United States and ways that experiences with cooperative economic models around the world might inform the funding of the social sciences today.

A Black man has rejected TD Bank's apology for the way staff at an Ottawa branch treated him when he tried to cash cheques for his business, which he says was ‘degrading.’ It’s an experience other Black business owners have had while banking.

The University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies held an open Lecture series on March 24th. Entitled Social Reproduction, Financial Exclusion and Alternatives is now available here.

5:00pm London, UK
1:00pm, Toronto, Canada

Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein was invited to speak at Big Thinking on the Hill via zoom. Her lecture was entitled Canada’s hidden cooperative system: The legacy of the Black Banker Ladies.

Entitled Canada’s Hidden Cooperative System: The Legacy of the Black Banker Ladies
March 9th, 2021, noon - 1:00pm
Register online here for FREE

The Muslim Awards for Excellence (MAX) has highlighted Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein for their Women In Leadership Campaign.

CLLCTIVLY Conversations welcomed their first guest lecturer Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein on Feb 4th 2021 for The Black Social Economy: The African Diaspora Experience in Solidarity Economics.