The Ujamaa Hour S3E10 (Building Your TRIBE for Collective Wisdom & Collective Care)
Channel: Mike Tekh Strode
Date: 13/10/2020

MOVEMENT MONDAY: Tune in on Monday (9/14) at 7:30 pm CST as we interview Bianca Shaw, co-founder of TRIBE, a cooperatively owned innovation and healing space which works at the intersection of entrepreneurship, community building, collective wisdom, and collective care. She is a queer, Black, femme from the Bronx by way of Antigua, West Indies who is responsible for visioning, planning, and development within TRIBE. Bianca draws upon her background as a social worker and experiences with anti-oppression organizing to cultivate space and opportunity within TRIBE for collective liberation.

TRIBE is a Bronx-based worker-owned cooperative nurtured in 2018 through the Co-op Academy of Green Worker Cooperatives. Each member shares in decision-making and brings a unique skillset to their role within the business. Members can work in a collaborative and interdependent way that values each person's wisdom and skills. TRIBE's work is rooted in building people power and being community-centered which allows them to create a space where people feel seen, valued and invested in.

On this episode, we explore Bianca's journey towards co-founding TRIBE as a worker-owned cooperative; examine how Bianca sees TRIBE connected to a larger community building or economic development vision; learn how TRIBE made a pivot for their business model throughout 2020 as the public health crisis arose; and look towards the horizon of 2021 to see what the future holds for the members of TRIBE.

On the recap, we discuss Coop 4 Lib's new round of collective study on the life, work and legacy of Ella Baker; dig into a recent presentation for Symbiosis on understanding the solidarity economy; consider a special December episode series for the Ujamaa Hour; and take your feedback on who should be our featured guests for 2021. Tune in.

*Initially broadcast September 14, 2020 via Facebook Live to Kola Nut Collaborative at 7:30 pm