Ownership in Crisis
Channel: StirToAction
Date: 10/11/2020

In a crisis, the role of ownership in determining outcomes for different individuals and groups is clearer than ever. It’s also clear that current ownership in this country is distributed in a hugely uneven way - ownership itself is in crisis.Join us to explore how the ‘ownership gap’ will shape the economic recovery from COVID-19 and if and how the current pandemic could represent an opportunity for democratic ownership to become the default feature of our workplaces, local economies, and online communities.

Speaker bios
Yancey Strickler is an American author, entrepreneur, and former music critic. He co-founded Kickstarter, the funding platform for creative projects and wrote This Could Be Our Future, a Penguin Random House book about building a society that looks beyond profit as its core organiing principle and introduces a decision-making framework called Bentoism.

‍Jessica Gordon Nembhard is an American political economist. She has published books and articles in major economics journals. She is currently Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Department of Africana Studies at John Jay College, City University of NY.

‍Daniel Stanley is a specialist in strategic communications for values-driven organisations. He writes and lectures on Narrative & Framing, has a background in grassroots community organising, and an MSc from the Institute of Social Psychology at LSE. He founded and led movement-building digital agency Small Axe, working with a range of global NGOs & Campaigns, and is now Creative Director at Cohere Partners, a strategy consultancy for organisations creating a more positive future for business and society.