Building Community Wealth
Part 1: Structures of Resilience
May 15, 2019 | 7:30 - 9:30 AM | ImpactHub Baltimore
Our Speakers
OLIVIA REBANAL
Director of Inclusive Food Systems
Capital Impact Partners
Olivia Rebanal
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Director of Inclusive Food Systems
Capital Impact Partners
Olivia M Rebanal is Director of Loan Programs at Capital Impact Partners (CIP), a CDFI that has deployed over $2 billion to serve 5 million people in our communities’ critical sectors: health care, education, elder communities, healthy food, cooperatives, and affordable housing. Olivia manages CIP’s Healthy Food Financing strategy, initiatives, and partnerships. Through programs like the California FreshWorks Fund, Michigan Good Food Fund, and the National Cooperative Grocer Fund, CIP increases access to affordable healthy food, supports neighborhood retailers, and expands food distribution, processing and production.
Olivia helped found a neighborhood buying club to make fresh, local food affordable. She makes kombucha at home and enjoys eating orange peels to avoid composting them.
JOSEPH CURETON
Chief Coordinating Officer
Staffing Cooperative
Joseph Cureton
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COO
Staffing Cooperative
KATE KHATIB
Executive Director
The Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy
Kate Khatib
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Executive Director
Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy
Kate Khatib is an Arab-American organizer, movement strategist, and cook. She is a founding worker-owner of the Red Emma’s cooperative, and co-founder of The 2640 Project, The Baltimore Free School, and The Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy. In 2018, she became the director of Seed Commons, a national network of locally-rooted cooperative loan funds that use a non-extractive model of lending developed by The Working World to connect worker-owned and community-controlled businesses with the capital and technical assistance they need to thrive. She holds a PhD in Intellectual History from the Johns Hopkins University, as well as two Masters degrees from the University of Amsterdam, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
GREG BRODSKY
Founder
Start.coop
Greg Brodsky
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Founder
Start.coop
Greg Brodsky is the Director of Start.coop which is the first accelerator for cooperatively owned businesses focused on achieving scale. Greg was previously the founder of The Bike Cooperative, Co-founder of the Independent Brewers Alliance, and is also the current Board Chair at Cooperative Development Institute.
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