Dr. Caroline Houssein, PhD
Following International Women's Day, take an optimistic look at feminist economic solutions that are being created by those most affected by financial insecurity and predatory lending.
Guest speaker Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Associate Professor of Global Development and Political Science at the University of Toronto Scarborough, offers her unique understanding of how immigrant women and women in developing countries create their own alternative banking solutions and, in doing so, focus on mutual aid and support, rather than extracting interest and profiteering.
As long as predatory banking and loan practices are aimed squarely at people of color and poor communities, peace and social justice activists must stand with solutions that prioritize people over profits and take back our democracy from the Wall Street banks and trillionaire financiers.
You’ll also hear about upcoming National WILPF events and actions, reports from Issue Committees, and new ways to connect with your WILPF sisterhood.
The next ONE WILPF Call isn’t till June, so plan to attend this one!
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Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein is a Canada Research Chair for Africana Development & Feminist Political Economy (tier 2). She is Associate Professor of Global Development as well as cross-appointed to the graduate programme of Political Science at the University of Toronto where she teaches the core development course to PhD students.
She is Founder of Diverse Solidarity Economies (DISE) Collective, and holds an Ontario Early Researcher Award (2018-2025). Hossein serves as board member to the International Association of Feminist Economics, advisor to Oxford University Press, editorial board member to the U.N. Task Force for the Social and Solidarity Economy Review for Black Political Economy and Kerala University’s Journal ‘Polity & Society’.
Hossein is the author of ‘Politicized Microfinance’ (2016), co-author of ‘Critical Introduction to Business and Society’ (2017); editor of ‘The Black Social Economy’ (2018), co-editor of ‘Community Economies in the Global South’ (2022) and ‘Beyond Racial Capitalism: Cooperatives in the African Diaspora’ (2023). Her forthcoming books are ‘The Banker Ladies’ with University of Toronto Press and ‘Co-operativism’ with Cambridge University Press. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked for 9 years in global non-profits and 8 years in consulting to the World Bank, UNDP, USAID, IRC, CIDA, IADB, and the Aga Khan Foundation.
You can follow her on Twitter @carolinehossein
