UPP’s Stacey Sutton Receives Honorable Mention For The Best Conference Paper Award At The UAA Conference
Stacey Sutton, Assistant Professor of UPP and Faculty Fellow in IRRPP,received the 2019 Best Conference Paper Award, Honorable Mention at the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) Conference! Professor Sutton's paper, “Cooperative Cities: Municipal Support for Worker Cooperatives in the United States”, was lauded for laying the groundwork for more research about cooperatives. "Cooperative Cities" moves the discussion into nuanced explanations about how institutional support and change can open up spaces to build future employment and economic development alternatives that create better conditions for workers, especially but not only for low-income workers in communities of color. Prior to joining CUPPA in 2015, Professor Sutton was on the faculty at Columbia University and directed the Community & Capital Action Research Lab. She has published both scholarly and applied research on worker-owned cooperatives, the solidarity economy, gentrification and racial transition, Black-owned business and neighborhood change, neighborhood retail dynamics, and disparate effects of place-based policy and planning. She has served as a consultant to the Aspen Institute, Roundtable on Community Change, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies, and as an advisor on mayoral and gubernatorial campaigns in Chicago and Illinois. She has also provided community planning support to organizations in New York City, Chicago, and New Orleans. Read more about Professor Sutton's work here.