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Celebrate Our 2024-25 North Stars!

Congratulations to North Star Cohort 8! Our latest fellows represent 10 cooperatives, with missions focused on housing, community wealth building, solidarity and connection, life skills, empowerment, art, healing, and mental health. Come wish them well at our virtual graduation Wednesday, May 7!

North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship Cohort 8 Graduation

Event flyer for North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship Cohort 8 Graduation 2024 - 2025, background of starry night sky.

Join the North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship's online graduation celebrating Cohort 8. Congratulations, Fellows!


Wednesday, May 7

5:30 - 7:30 pm CDT

Zoom (virtual)


The North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship invites you to our online graduation and celebration of ceremony, performance, and amazing speakers, where we will honor Cohort 8's exciting work and commitment to Black cooperative economics. Our keynote speaker will be LaDonna Sanders Redmond.


This event is free, virtual, live, and open to all while centering Black people and Black experiences. This is a Black-centered space where we will prioritize uplifting Black voices and safety. 


Congratulations, North Stars, and onward!













Meet Our Guest Speaker

LaDonna Sanders Redmond is a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and Intercultural Organizational Development Consultant and Coach with Columinate. She is the former Diversity and Community Engagement Manager for Seward Co-op in Minneapolis, MN. LaDonna led the co-op’s diversity and engagement initiatives that contributed positively to organizational culture, marketplace competitiveness, and social responsibility.

LaDonna is a community activist who worked on several public health issues throughout her career, such as substance abuse, violence, and food justice. LaDonna successfully worked to get Chicago Public Schools to eliminate junk food, launched urban agriculture projects, started a community grocery store, and worked on federal farm policies to expand access to healthy food in communities of color. LaDonna is a 2003 WK Kellogg Food and Society Policy Fellow. In 2009, she was one of 25 citizen and business leaders named a Responsibility Pioneer by Time Magazine. LaDonna has a popular Tedx talk, “Food + Justice = Democracy.”