Lauren Hudson

Faculty Fellow

Lauren Hudson is a cooperative and Solidarity Economy organizer and researcher in New York City. She is a cofounder of the Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC, a former collective member of SolidarityNYC, and a current collective member of the Solidarity Economy Principles Project. She holds a doctorate in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Because of the continued disinvestment in higher education, Lauren has also had the opportunity to teach courses in feminist urban geography and Geographic Information Systems at Sarah Lawrence College, Parsons, Hunter College, Medgar Evers College, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Now, after ten years of adjuncting, Lauren is an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies where she teaches Economic Democracy as part of their Workplace Democracy and Community Ownership program.

Connected Events

Ten Years of Cooperation: What We’ve Done, What We Didn’t Do, and What’s Next

February 26, 2026

Participating Years

2026–2027

Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle

In a world of deepening crises, of socioeconomic inequities, of environmental collapse, of resurgent fascism and institutionalized authoritarianism, what is the place of radical imagination in creating more just worlds? While some think of the work of imagination as being outside of—at a distance to, or even in a different temporality than—everyday struggle, we want to shine a light on the work of radical practice as a form of imagination. We look to anticapitalist and antiracist organizing and thought, and the complex practices in time and place through which change is not only presented and represented but produced.