The Boston Ujima Project has launched a new summer workshop series titled RE/STRUCTURE: Transformation Through Cooperation, set to run weekly through the month of July. Hosted in a hybrid format at Frugal Bookstore and online, the series aims to unpack how cooperative models can serve as tools for restructuring systems, redistributing power, and building accountability across communities.
Beginning Wednesday, July 2, each session features guest speakers involved in cooperative work across Boston and beyond. According to Ujima, the goal is to create space for collective learning about how cooperatives—long used by marginalized communities to meet needs and navigate exclusion from traditional systems—can support economic justice in contemporary practice.
Confirmed speakers include Helena Gorroño of TazeBaez , Robert Kelley-Morgan and Stephen Lafume of Dorchester Art Project, and Sadie Modi of Boston Cooperative Consulting Organization. Each guest brings experience working at the intersection of art, organizing, and economic infrastructure.
The sessions begin at 6 PM EST each Wednesday (with no meeting scheduled for July 9) and are free to attend with registration via ujimaboston.com/events.
The RE/STRUCTURE series adds another layer to Ujima’s broader mission of reimagining Boston’s economic landscape through cooperative development led by and for Black, Indigenous, and working-class communities of color. Through shared conversation and practice, the workshops invite participants to consider what it takes to restructure not just systems, but relationships and responsibilities to each other.
