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Raphael Wakefield panel with Tristian Martinez and Jordan Flowers of the Amazon Labor Union discussing organizing at John Jay College on Friday May 6, 2022.

When the American Economic Association honored Sadie Alexander this week they did so because of Professor Nina Banks’s important research which uncovered Sadie Alexander’s writings and speeches. The AEA did so by not citing and plagiarizing her research. That the AEA honors its own tradition as economists as servants of power instead of economics as serving humanity it is only appropriate that they honor a silenced Black woman economist by silencing a current Black woman economist. Below is a letter by Nina Banks discussing what the AEA did and included is also a video of Nina Banks talking about Sadie Alexander at John Jay College in 2015.

Watch: Professor Dhondt and Alum Ludy Thenor speak with Dean Elsa-Sofia Morote about the Masters of Arts Economics program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Listen to Professor Michelle Holder on the Better Life Lab podcast with Brigid Schulte discuss how the pandemic has impacted women in the labor market. “We can’t effectively address gender disparities in our economy until we strengthen our social infrastructure, especially child care” Professor Holder