Can the economy be democratized? How can we transform it into a more socially inclusive and ecologically sustainable system? How can we combat the growing concentrations of power and wealth? What current practices point toward a participatory democracy and resilient next system?

Our current political economy is unjust, anti-democratic, and ecologically unsustainable. This reality has led to a host of efforts to transform our political economy. This conference will bring together leading academics, researchers, advocates, and practitioners for a day of discussion on how we can achieve systemic transformation and make a political economy that is equitable, democratic, and sustainable.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
J. Phillip Thompson, Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives, City of New York

PLENARY SPEAKERS include:
Sheila Foster, Professor of Law and Public Policy, Georgetown University

Roger Green, Co-Founder, Society for Effective Economic Democracy; Co-Chair of the Coalition to Transform Interfaith

Sean Sweeney, Director, International Program for Labor, Climate and the Environment, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies; Coordinator, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy

NOTABLE PANELISTS include:
NYS Assembly Member Ron Kim
NYC Council Member Brad Lander

Panels will address topics on:

• Energy democracy and the Green New Deal
• Building the infrastructure for economic democracy
• Creating a healthy cooperative ecosystem
• Co-ops and immigrant workers
• Opportunities and challenges of land use policy and community land trusts
• Municipalism and workers' rights
• Food co-ops and food systems
• Public ownership and the state
• Financing economic democracy
• State strategies