Green Worker invites you to the finale of our five month Co-op Academy. Please join us in a special event in honor of the Fall 2018 Co-op Academy Graduates.

These new co-ops will give presentations about their experiences and plans to build sustainable, green businesses in New York City communities. They focus on providing a variety of services from a immersive theater to wellbeing products to beauty services. 

Come meet other allies and organizational partners who've helped make the dreams of these entrepreneurs come true.

This is a free, family friendly event. For all ages. 

Food provided by Ityopia Rootz, Afro-Caribbean plant based food catering cooperative, whose recipes are crafted around traditional Caribbean and African foods. 

Co-op Academy Fall 2018 Cohort

Black Conference Touring Company • Touring Theater Group

Cards by 'De • Handmade & Customized Cards

High Mi Madre • Womyn of Color-owned Marijuana Business

Innatus Birth • Birth & Doula Services

Mirror Salon & Spa • Beauty Services

Mocho Village • Nutrition & Culinary Services

Ourturnatives • Wellbeing & Herbal Products

Tribe Co-create • Co-working Space 

Keynote Speakers

Phil Thompson, Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives

Jamaal T. Bailey, Senator for the 36th District

Helen Rosenthal, City Council for the 6th District

Special Performance

The Black Conference Touring Company is a cooperative of performing artists engaging audiences through interactiveperformances designed to empower communities to take collective action.

Black Conference is a 360◦ theater experience set in 1939, during the opening ceremonies of a civil rights conference. It is an immersive theater experience that brings guests face to face with some of the civil rights greats. 

Actors will perform an excerpt from the play, highlighting speeches from Black leaders that were deeply rooted and helped create African American cooperatives throughout the United States. This is not to be missed.