On March 24, our Founder & CEO Repa Mekha made an appearance on MPR News with Angela Davis. Their conversation was imbued with warmth, sincerity, hope, and connection, featuring stories and questions from community members who called in.
Over the hour, Angela and Repa talked about his vision for building wealth and well-being for Black Minnesotans, particularly through cooperative ownership. He also shared about his life and the journey he took to get here:
“Repa saw slim opportunities for himself and his peers growing up as a young Black man in Milwaukee. He ended up in prison, where he started college and embarked on his life’s work of figuring out what it takes to create more paths forward for Black Americans and other groups left out of mainstream economies.
He worked with homeless teens in the Twin Cities and got a master’s degree from Harvard University. He also founded Nexus Community Partners, a nonprofit that promotes cooperatively owned businesses and distributes wealth-building grants to people who are descendants of the transatlantic slave trade.”
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