On Monday January 17th from 8pm to 9:30PM Dr. Hossein joined with three other dynamic women to learn about ways to create more resilient communities through revolving credit circles, cooperative businesses, trade agreements, services, and more. Women often lead these local efforts that economists traditionally call “informal,” but why? Would becoming more “formal,” as some are now urging, improve mutual trust and security, or undermine it?

Dr. Hossein is interviewed about “Causing Good Trouble”: The Anti-Racist Feminist Leaders Redefining Social Enterprise in Toronto. Exploring how social enterprises founded on ethical and politicized action benefit communities and fight racism in the capitalist economy.

On Dec 9th, 10:30 EST, Dr. Hossein was interviewed by Vernon Oaks regarding her research into Solidarity Economies, The Black Social Economy, and the work of DISE to build stronger and just communities for Black and racialized people.

The latest collection of articles from the Forum for Social Economics are written by women from different countries and aim to deal with a range of division of labor asymmetries, with special emphasis on issues that women must face in different countries.

Dr. Hossein’s article is entitled Money Pools in the Americas: The African Diaspora’s Legacy in the Social Economy and is currently free to access for a limited time.

On October 6th Dr. Hossein participated in a series hosted by the NCBA-CLUSA.

Click here for her summary of her piece entitled The Invisible Impact of Women in Cooperatives

By Guelph Institute of Development Studies, and sponsored by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Date and time:

Tue, November 2, 2021

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

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.