Building Our Own: Collective Ownership, Cooperative Real Estate Investment, and Community Wealth Building

Stacey Sutton, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy and the Director of Applied Research and Strategic Partnerships at the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Through her research on community economic development, Sutton examines questions related to neighborhood racial transition, gentrification, and small business survival; solidarity economy ecosystems and worker-owned cooperatives; infrastructures and ideologies of Black liberatory zones; and racially disparate effects of place-based city policy and planning. Stacey is a member of the SBAN leadership team, serving as Senior Researcher.