Stacey Sutton

Stacey Sutton (Photo courtesy of Stacey Sutton)

Stacey Sutton is director of the Solidarity Economy Research, Policy and Law Project, which aims to advance interdisciplinary research, critical analysis and enabling policies for solidarity economies; and to foster education, training and technical assistance related to cooperative economies and community ownership models.

Sutton’s scholarship, teaching and community engagement are grounded in two interrelated frameworks: advancing “cooperative cities,” with a central focus on economic democracy, worker cooperatives, prefigurative politics and solidarity economies and, second, critiquing “punitive cities” or processes of gentrification and dispossession, as well as racially disparate effects of purportedly neutral place-based policies on the other. Sutton’s new body of cooperative cities research, “Building Real Black Utopias,” is a multi-city exploration of infrastructures, ideologies and practices of Black-centered solidarity economy ecosystems in the United States.

Media Mentions

New Chicago speed cameras drive surge in tickets. ‘I won’t drive down the street’
Chicago Sun-Times

Why automated speed cameras disproportionately affect Black and brown drivers
PBS

How Chicago Can Stem the Tide of Black Population Loss
WTTW-TV