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Mariah Montgomery

Partnership for Working Families
Future of Work Strategist
Brooklyn, NY

forworkingfamilies.org/

Mariah Montgomery leads the Partnership’s strategic initiatives to propel the future of work towards worker power and equity, with a focus on nonstandard, fissured employment and the way technology is changing work and organizing. Before joining the Partnership, Mariah was the deputy campaign director for retail initiatives at the Change to Win (CtW) labor federation, where she led innovative campaigns in retail and telecommunications with an emphasis on corporate strategy, regulation and public policy.

9:30am EDT

How Racism is a Roadblock to the Next Economy -- And What We Can Do About That: Movement Strategy Center's Transitions Lab Rockwell Hall 204

5:30pm EDT

Light Dinner Rockwell Hall Patio

7:00pm EDT

Opening Plenary: Achieving Self-Determination And Sovereignty For Our Communities Rockwell Theater

9:30am EDT

Banking and Finance for a New Economy Bulger Communication Center East 2 Combatting Economic Violence in Baltimore and DC: Black Workers Centers and Cooperatives as Tools for Liberation in the New Economy Rockwell Hall 304

11:15am EDT

Economic Autonomy in the Immigrants' Rights Movement/ Economia autonoma en el movimiento de derechos a los inmigrantes Ketchum Hall 111 Queering Labor: Worker Cooperatives as a Model for Leadership Development and Economic Stability Ketchum 315 When Coal Plants Retire, Who Should Pay? Bulger Communication Center East

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Social Hall

2:00pm EDT

Development Without Displacement Tour: Community First Alliance TBA White People Disrupting Racism and White Supremacy Rockwell Hall 301

4:00pm EDT

Overworked and Undervalued: Race, Gender and the Economy/ Agobiada/o y menospreciada/o: Raza, género y la economía Ketchum Hall 111 When the City Steps In: Institutionalizing City Government Support for Worker Cooperatives Bulger Communication Center West

5:30pm EDT

Evening Plenary Rockwell Theater

7:30pm EDT

Dinner & Party Quad outside Campbell Student Union

9:00am EDT

Breakfast Social Hall

9:30am EDT

Basic Income as a First Step Towards a Care-Centered Economy Rockwell Hall 302 Employee Ownership: Policy Levers to Build Community Wealth Bulger Communication Center West Housing Is A Human Right: Organizing For Community Land Trusts Ketchum Hall 118

11:15am EDT

Is System Change Possible? Long-Term Strategies Rockwell Theater

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Social Hall

1:45pm EDT

Leveraging Procurement for Community Wealth-Building and Local Jobs Rockwell Theater

3:05pm EDT

Closing Plenary Rockwell Theater