Tune into WOL 1450 AM, 95.9 FM or the WOL Livestream on Thursday, January 15 at 10:30 a.m. ESTfor Everything Co-op, hosted by Vernon Oakes.

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This week's episode features Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein, a leading global scholar on solidarity economies, cooperative finance and the economic contributions of racialized communities. She and Vernon will discuss her new book, The Banker Ladies: Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks, along with the benefits-and obstacles-of being at the forefront of building and sustaining solidarity economies.

Caroline Shenaz Hosseinis a Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Africana Development & Feminist Political Economy and Associate Professor of Global Development Studies. She is the founding member of the international Diverse Solidarity Economies Collective (DISE), highlighting the need to amplify culturally diverse community economies to counter the systemic economic exclusion of marginalized populations. Dr. Hosein is a member of the new college at the Royal Society of Canada and holds an Ontario Early Researcher Award. She is author of the award-winning Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power and Violence in the Black Americas, her newest book The Banker Ladies, and editor of Community Economies in the Global South, The Black Social Economy, Community Economies in the Global South, and Beyond Racial Capitalism. She has written 50+ articles and book chapters on financialization, development and feminist economics.