This week on Everything Co-op, Jamila Medley on cooperative economics and community wealth building

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This week, Everything Co-op closes out its Women's History Month series with Jamila Medley, a relationship weaver, culture worker and artist working at the intersections of the personal and organizational.

Jamila will discuss how women are not only responding to today's challenges, but are actively designing inclusive, community-centered solutions that ensure a more sustainable and equitable future for generations to come. As founder and curator of the Black Women at Home Project (BW@H), Jamila co-creates what is needed to experience systemic durability. Her work is a commitment to ensuring that the structures we build serve as sites of liberation, resilience and care.

For over 25 years, Jamila has supported cooperatives and nonprofits through emergent change, helping groups operationalize their values. From 2012-2021, she served as Executive Director of the Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance (PACA). Currently, she stewards the Collective Courage Fund, serves on the boards of the People's Media Fund and Food Co-op Initiative, and builds essential tools for co-op development with Solidarity Resource.

In 2023, Jamila launched BW@H to lift up how Black women embody home as a site of sacred wellness. In 2026, she will launch Seed and Structure, a framework weaving personal wholeness into collective strength-so our lives and our structures finally tell the same story.

A Brooklyn native based in Philadelphia, Jamila is the proud mama of Mimi. She holds a master's degree in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.