The solidarity economy refers to an “ecosystem of practice” in the realms of land stewardship, housing, and work that aim to embody its five principles of: 1) solidarity, cooperation, and mutualism; 2) equity in all dimensions; 3) participatory democracy; 4) sustainability; and 5) pluralism. It recognizes the mass exploitation that occurs under capitalism and imagines an alternative future that prioritizes people and the planet over profits. Examples of solidarity economy organizations include worker co-ops, community loan funds, and community land trusts. The Lawyering for the Solidarity Economy panel will bring together lawyers and activists for a discussion on the role that transactional lawyers can play in supporting solidarity economy structures and in operationalizing values like collective ownership, democratic governance, and sustainability.
Speakers
Moh Mookim
Moh Mookim (they/them) is a land justice and wealth redistribution attorney at the Sustainable Economies Law Center. They are committed to abolition, landback, and anti-capitalist solidarity economies. Their work at the Law Center aims to liberate land from the speculative market by supporting collectives led by Black, Indigenous, and/or poor people. Moh also leads the Law Center’s wealth redistribution work, helping donors opt out of extractive financial systems and commit to grassroots social movements. They have a B.A. and J.D. from Stanford University.
CAM Morris
CAM (self-named) (they/them) is a Black (African) radical non-binary, neuroexpansive agitator and community caregiver. CAM is a board member and tenant steward (acquired property to give back to the community) for Baldwin House Community Cooperative. They are studying prison abolition, disability justice, reproductive justice/birth work, The Black Radical Tradition, Black Ecology, Black Trans and Queer Liberation, Anarkata (pronounced: An-R-Kada, Yoruba term), Afropessimism, and democracy. They are kin to those struggling for power and freedom, sending invitations to curious people.
Jacqueline Radebaugh
Jacqueline Radebaugh (she/her) is a partner and shareholder at Jason Wiene, p.c., a legal and business consulting practice that works with mission-driven companies and non-profit organizations and is committed to building a regenerative and sustainable economy. With more than 15 years in the legal sector, Jacqueline has practiced law in Brazil, France, and in the United States, developing expertise in a broad range of for-profit (small up to Global Fortune 500) and non-profit transactional legal needs. From representing under-represented and under-served groups, to partnering with funders and investors, Jacqueline collaborates with business developers and co-op incubators, and instigates conversations about community land trusts, cooperatives, DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organization), and other shared equity ownership models, to support community development strategies that seek lasting, transformational benefits to the local communities. Passionate about education, she founded in 2018 the Biennial Cooperative Law Conference, in Ohio, where, with the support of the Center for Cooperative Development of the CFAES OSU, she gathers sector experts and practitioners to learn from each other’s experiences. Since joining the firm, Jacqueline has spearheaded the firm’s Web3 practice group, notably supporting DAOs to design their entity structure and governance and adopting the cooperative legal model. She represents the first ever DAO cooperative in collaboration with Yev Muchnik, and presents many more, along with a number of startup disruptors. Outside of the office, Jacqueline is a pickleball aficionado, is engaged in a variety of community projects, and plans most of her vacations around hikes with friends and family.
Sophia Hampton (moderator)
Sophia Joffe Hampton (she/they) is in her final year of a dual degree with Yale School of the Environment (MESc) and Vermont Law School (JD). Her thesis research explores how private property, as a system of legal and social relations, shapes agricultural practices and land stewardship in the Northeast. In this work, she is inspired by community groups that have organized to move land off the speculative market and into collective ecological care. Sophia is also a student intern at Yale Law School’s Community Economic Development Clinic, learning how transactional lawyering can support more livable and equitable places. After graduating, Sophia hopes to continue working with communities in their efforts to decommodify land, food, and housing.