IFTF: Equitable Enterprise Initiative

Equitable Enterprise Initiative

The Equitable Enterprise Initiative engages the public across diverse communities in the US and abroad, in both rural and urban geographies. During community workshops and public conversations, innovators like EEI Advisors and Fellows will share visions for a more equitable future, as well as practices they are following in their work. The Initiative will elevate equitable enterprise leaders’ stories, share best practices, and outline needed actions and policies to promote creation and growth of equitable enterprises.

Below, meet the EEI Advisors and Fellows, watch videos of Deep Dive conversations, and read issues of the EEI newsletter. You can subscribe here, for monthly updates.

For more information about Institute for the Future's work and the Equitable Futures Lab, please visit equitablefutures.iftf.org.

Equitable Enterprise Advisors

Kenneth Bailey
Co-founder of Design Studio
for Social Intervention
and co-author of the book
Ideas, Arrangements, Effects:
Systems Design and Social Justice.

Johan Chu
Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, studying how
today’s technology is changing the
dynamics of social power, competition, and work. Chu has
also held positions in consulting, technology, and executive search.

Ra Criscitiello
Deputy Director of Research at
SEIU UHW, her work focuses on the intersection of organized labor and worker ownership

Jerry Davis
Professor of Business Administration and Sociology at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and Department of Sociology, author of multiple books, including, The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy.

Teddy DeWitt
Assistant Professor in the College of Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston, focused on 1) the way financialization can alter the structure of organizations, 2) how teams and organizations make sense of and respond to rapidly changing environments, and 3) how new technology intersects with job and work design.

Cory Doctorow
Former European Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and author of numerous books, including, How To Destroy
Surveillance Capitalism.

Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Professor of Community Justice
and Social Economic Development
in the Department of Africana
Studies at CUNY and author of
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative
Economic Thought and Practice.

Douglas Rushkoff
Author, documentarian, host of the Team Human podcast, and founder
of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism
at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and
Digital Economics.

Astra Taylor
A documentary filmmaker (What Is Democracy?) and current fellow at
the Shuttleworth Foundation for her
work challenging predatory
practices around debt.