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
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.”