A history of organizing in the arts with a focus on Solidarity Economy alternatives and artist-led resistance with Francisco Pérez, Executive Director of the Center for Popular Economics 9:00 PT / 12:00 ET
Friday, September 10, 2021, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (UTC-08:00)
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Join Francisco Pérez, Executive Director of the Center for Popular Economics for a history of organizing in the arts with a focus on Solidarity Economy alternatives and artist-led resistance.
Francisco Perez (Platanomics) is a solidarity economy activist, educator and researcher currently pursuing a PhD in economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research focuses on the political economy of the CFA Franc, a currency union of fourteen West and Central African countries.
Francisco is also the Director of the Center for Popular Economics, a nonprofit collective of political economists whose programs and publications demystify the economy and put useful economic tools in the hands of people fighting for cultural, social and economic justice.
He has worked on social and economic development projects in Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, the US and Venezuela. Francisco has also worked for the Museum for African Art in NYC as a grant writer and was a member of a collective of artists fighting to free political prisoners called the “Scientific Soul Sessions.”
