Katherine Mella is Program Director for Participatory Planning and Policy at the Just Urban Economies Program in New York. Working with the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative—a core partner of JUE—Mella focuses on two key areas for building economic democracy in the Bronx: (1) community health, leveraging opportunities tied to local and national healthcare system transformation to address the social determinants of health; and (2) development without displacement, convening of community partners across the Bronx to fight back against gentrification and displacement and fighting for community-driven equitable development. kmella@mit.edu