Mutualist Infrastructure: A Conversation with Sara Horowitz
Thursday, May 20, 2021
1-2 p.m. Mountain Time
Free webinar
As the US federal government considers once-in-a-generation investments in infrastructure, is it possible to also enable a new commitment to a democratic economy? In this conversation, celebrating the publication of Sara Horowitz's new book , we will explore strategies for bringing the mutualist tradition of unions, cooperatives, and community ownership from the margins into the center of economic policy-making.
Sara Horowitz is the founder of the Freelancers Union and the Freelancers Insurance Company, and currently head of the . Formerly chair of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Horowitz is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and has been featured on NPR and in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, among other publications. A lifelong mutualist, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter.
Co-sponsored by the Media Enterprise Design Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder and Zebras Unite.