Small Business Anti-displacement Network Conference

 In November 2023, I presented on a panel for the Small Business Anti-displacement Network Conference in Maryland.

I co presented with Community Vision's president, Catherine Howard on the panel: “The Missing $326 Billion: Building Opportunity by Regaining Land Control.” We were joined by Rudy Espinoza from Inclusive Action for the City and Bibiana Stevens from City First Enterprises. 

We cannot talk about wealth- and power-building opportunities for BIPOC-owned businesses without talking about land loss and its antidote — land control. For example, between 1920 and 1997 the compounded value of Black agricultural land loss is estimated to be $326 billion. 

The panelists discussed how their organizations define land control, report on innovative models of land control they are seeing in their regions, and walk through some of the most promising financing strategies for achieving land control.