{"podcast":{"title":"Everything Co-op with Vernon Oakes","slug":"everything-co-op-with-vernon-oakes-722888","podcast_index_feed_id":722888,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:381264350/sounds.rss","website_url":"https://soundcloud.com/user-913981455","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-MBD0zlDPR5XKKza6-lLoRig-original.jpg","author":"Everything Co-op","episode_count":442,"summary":"Podcast by Everything Co-op","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T12:18:13.795751+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-co-op-with-vernon-oakes-722888"},"episode":{"title":"Renee Hatcher Explores the Vital Role of Solidarity Economy and Cooperatives","slug":"renee-hatcher-explores-the-vital-role-of-solidarity-economy-and-cooperatives","published_at":"2025-05-11T20:31:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-co-op-with-vernon-oakes-722888/renee-hatcher-explores-the-vital-role-of-solidarity-economy-and-cooperatives","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-co-op-with-vernon-oakes-722888","url":"https://soundcloud.com/user-913981455/renee-hatcher-explores-the-vital-role-of-solidarity-economy-and-cooperatives","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2093995182-user-913981455-renee-hatcher-explores-the-vital-role-of-solidarity-economy-and-cooperatives.mp3","summary":"March 27, 2025 Everything Co-op continues its Women’s History Month series centering on the theme “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations,” set by the National Women’s History Alliance. This episode features Renee Hatcher, Professor and Director of the Community Enterprise & Solidarity Economy Clinic at UIC Law. Vernon and Renee discuss the vital role of solidarity economy and cooperatives at this moment in history. Renee Hatcher is a human rights and cooperative lawyer and solidarity economy organizer. She is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Law at GW Law School in DC. She serves as the Director of the Community Enterprise & Solidarity Economy Clinic at UIC Law in Chicago, a pro bono legal clinic that provides free legal support to community-based businesses, non-profits, cooperatives, and other solidarity economy enterprises. Recently, Renee served as the Co-Director of Chicago Community Wealth Building Ecosystem at CUPPA’s Center on Urban Economic Development (CUED). Renee has significant experience organizing and providing legal support to worker cooperatives and community-based initiatives to empower workers and community residents. Her work and research focus on legal and non-legal strategies to build power in Black, low-income neighborhoods and other communities of color rooted in solidarity economy organizing and theory. In 2022, the city of Chicago allocated $15 million dollars to support the cooperative ecosystem, including a substantial grant to UIC, as the “hub” organization, to conduct research and convene the Chicago Community Wealth Building Ecosystem. Renee co-directs the “hub” with her close colleague, Associate Professor Stacey Sutton. Most recently, Renee served on Mayor Johnson’s Transition Committee on…","meta_description":"March 27, 2025 Everything Co-op continues its Women’s History Month series centering on the theme “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Ge…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3266,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/everything-co-op-with-vernon-oakes-722888/episodes/renee-hatcher-explores-the-vital-role-of-solidarity-economy-and-cooperatives/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-co-op-with-vernon-oakes-722888/renee-hatcher-explores-the-vital-role-of-solidarity-economy-and-cooperatives.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}