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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard

African American Studies Department
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-1158 / 314-9932 · Fax
jnembhard@aasp.umd.edu
jgnembhard@civilsociety.umd.edu

Assistant Professor and Economist
African American Studies Department/The Democracy Collaborative
University of Maryland, College Park

Ph.D., Economics, University of Amherst-Massachusetts

JESSICA GORDON NEMBHARD is Assistant Professor and economist (political economist) in the African American Studies Department, and co-founder of The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland (UMd), College Park. Dr. Gordon Nembhard specializes in economic development policy and Black political economy. Her research focuses on community- and asset-based economic development and democratic community economics, cooperative economics and worker ownership, alternative urban economic and educational development strategies, racial wealth inequality and wealth accumulation in communities of color, and popular economic literacy.

Dr. Gordon Nembhard's recent publications include "Cooperatives and Wealth Accumulation" in the American Economic Review; "Non Traditional Analyses of Cooperative Economic Impacts," in the Review of International Co-operation, "Cooperative Ownership in the Struggle for African American Economic Empowerment" in Humanity & Society, and "On the Road to Democratic Economic Participation: Educating African American Youth in the Post-Industrial Global Economy," in Black Education: A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century, edited by Joyce King. She and Ngina Chiteji are editors of Wealth Accumulation in Communities of Color: Current Issues (University of Michigan Press 2006).

Gordon Nembhard is the recipient of a Henry C. Welcome Fellowship Grant from the Maryland Higher Education Commission. She has been a member of the Black Enterprise Board of Economists since October 1999. Dr. Gordon Nembhard was a Visiting Scholar and Senior Urban Fellow at Brown University's Annenberg Institute for School Reform from June 1998-June 2000. She is Treasurer of the National Economic Association (NEA). Jessica Gordon Nembhard earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1992 and 1989, respectively). She earned her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in Literature and African American Studies from Yale University (1978); and an M.A.T. in Elementary Curriculum and Teaching from Howard University (1982). She is the proud mother of two children and one grandson.

Publications (Selected)

Nembhard, Jessica Gordon, and Ngina Chiteji, eds. Wealth Accumulation in Communities of Color in the United States: Current Issues. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, Forthcoming.

Nembhard, Jessica Gordon. Cooperative Ownership and the Struggle for African American Economic Empowerment.@ Humanity & Society Vol. 28, No. 3 (August 2004), pp. 298-321.

Nembhard, Jessica Gordon. Non-Traditional Analyses of Cooperative Economic Impacts: Preliminary Indicators and a Case Study.@ Review of International Co-operation Vol. 97, No. 1 (2004), pp. 6-21.

Nembhard, Jessica Gordon. Introduction.@ Special Issue: Tribute to Rhonda M. Williams.@ Review of Black Political Economy Vol. 29, No.4 (Spring 2002), pp. 15-24.

Dymski, Gary and Jessica Gordon Nembhard. Rhonda M. Williams: Competition, Race, Agency and Community.@ Special Issue: Tribute to Rhonda M. Williams.@ Review of Black Political Economy Vol. 29, No. 4 (Spring 2002), pp. 25-42.

Feldman, Jonathan Michael and Jessica Gordon Nembhard (eds.). From Community Economic Development and Ethnic Entrepreneurship to Economic Democracy: The Cooperative Alternative. Partnership for Multiethnic Inclusion, Norrkoping, Sweden (National Institute for Working Life), 2002.

Nembhard, Jessica Gordon. ADemocratic Economic Participation and Humane Urban Redevelopment.@ Trotter Review, 2000, pp. 26-31.

Darity, William A., Jr., and Jessica Gordon Nembhard. ARacial and Ethnic Economic Inequality: The International Record.@ American Economic Review Vol. 90, No. 2 (May 2000), pp. 308-311.

Nembhard, Jessica Gordon. Capital Control, Financial Regulation, and Industrial Policy in South Korea and Brazil. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1996.

Honors and Fellowships (Selected)

Grants (Selected)

Presentations (Selected)

"Economic Cooperation and Democracy: Alternative Strategies for Community-Based Economic Development." Panel presentation at the Boston Social Forum, University of Massachusetts, Boston, July 24, 2004.

"Economic Democracy, Cooperatives, and Urban Economic Development." Presentation to the fellows, College of Behavioral & Social Sciences (BSOS) Summer Research Initiative, University of Maryland, College Park, July 6, 2004.

"Lessons for Community Economic Empowerment from African American Cooperative Development." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation, at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, June 4, 2004.

"Democratic Workplaces in the Social Justice Movement." Panel presentation at the U.S. Conference of Democratic Workplaces, H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 25, 2004.

"Entering the New City as Men and Women, Not Mules." Keynote presentation at the 2nd Annual UMKC Black Studies Conference, "Economic Development in Black Kansas City." Black Studies Program, and Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University of Missouri, Kansas City, March 26, 2004.

"Cooperatives and Community-Based Economic Development: Empowering Low Income Communities." Workshop presentation (and organizer) at the 2003 Western Worker Cooperative Conference, Breitenbush, OR, October 20, 2003.c

"Entering the New City as Men and Women, Not Mules." Paper presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Milwaukee, WI, September 27, 2003.

"African American Community-Based Economic Development." Workshop presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Urban League, Pittsburgh, PA, July 28, 2003.

"Economic Cooperation, Democracy and Economic Development." Paper presented at the Association of Cooperative Educators ACE Institute, Madison, WI, July 26, 2003.

"Introduction to Worker-Owned Cooperatives and Worker Ownership," presentation and co-coordinator of the introductory workshop on worker ownership. Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, July 14, 2003.

"Overview" and Organizer and Moderator of session: "Prospering Together: Women in Business Cooperatives." Institute for Women's Policy Research Annual Policy Forum, June 23, 2003.

"Outcome Measurement and Non-Traditional Analyses of Cooperative Economic Impacts: Preliminary Indicators and a Case Study." Paper presented at "Mapping Co-operative Studies in the New Millennium: An International Congress," The Research Committee of the International Co-operative Alliance and The Canadian Association for the Study of Co-operation. University of Victoria, BC Canada, May 30, 2003.

"Theory, Research, Social Goals and Economic Policy." Paper presented at "Setting Economic Policy to achieve Social Goals," 2003 National Community Economic Development Symposium Southern New Hampshire University, May 13, 2003.

"Working with Communities to Measure Outcomes and Analyze Economic Impacts." Paper presented at the Community-University Partnerships Conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, May 10, 2003.

"The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund: 35 Years of Wealth Creation through Land Retention and Cooperative Economic Development." Paper presentation at the National Economic Association session on "Wealth." Allied Social Sciences Association Annual Meetings, Washington, DC, January 4, 2003.

Professional Affiliations
Member:
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
American Economic Association
National Economic Association
Wilkins Forum (University of Minnesota)
The Ecological Democracy Institute of North America (Grassroots Economic Organizing)
National Cooperative Business Association
Federation of Southern Cooperatives
Association of Cooperative Educators
U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Workplaces
African American Leadership Summit, co-sponsored by the Senate Democratic and
Congressional Black Caucuses of the U.S. Congress (first gathering June 26, 2003)
Shaw Equitable Development Project, MANNA CDC (2003-)
Outcome Measurement Committee, Cooperation Works! (2002-)
Urban Initiative Task Force, National Cooperative Business Association (2001-)

Board Member:
National Economic Association (1994- ), Treasurer (2001- )
District of Columbia Economic Club (1996- ), Co-founder and Coordinator-Treasurer
The Black Enterprise Board of Economists (1999- )
The Journal Of Negro Education (2004-)
Enterprising Staffing Cooperative, Washington, DC. (2004-)
Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2003-)
United States Federation of Democratic Workplaces (auxiliary member, Conference Coordinating Committee, 2003-2004)
Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy (Coordinating Committee, 2001-)
Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter, Editorial Collective (2001-)
African American High Net Worth Education Series, Advisory Board, Investment
Management Institute, Greenwich, CT (2000-2002)
CEJJES Institute, Pomona, NY (2000- ), President (2002-)
Gitt-Maul Historic Properties, Hanover, PA (1998- )
Athena Telematics (1995-2000)

Consultant:
The OneBaltimore Initiative, a Project of Interfaith Action for Racial Justice, Inc. (2003-)
DC Agenda, Collaboration DC Steering Committee and Evaluation Committee (2003-2004)
The Federation of Southern Cooperatives Annual Report (2002)
Cooperative Development Institute, Greenfield, MA (2002-2003)
"Racial Analysis for Transforming Neighborhoods" and "The Global Empowerment Index Project," Institute on Race and Poverty, University of Minnesota Law School (2002)
Alternative Economic Development Committee, A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, Washington, DC (2001-2002)
HUBZone Program "Report to Congress," U.S. Small Business Administration (2001)
Transitions from Childhood to the Workforce, Blue Ribbon Panel, National Science Foundation (February 2000)
The Preamble Center (1999-2000, 2001-)
The College Board, National Task Force on Minority High Achievement Study Group to consider the relationships of class, gender and race/ethnicity to academic achievement (1998-2000)

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