Evan Casper-Futterman is the program director of the Economic Democracy Learning Center at the
Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative (BCDI) and a board member of the
Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City (CEANYC). He received a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of New Orleans and a PhD from the Bloustein school of planning and public policy at Rutgers University. The views expressed here are his own.