Sawyer Seminar Vol. 2 - Survival Economies w/ Rich Wallace and Nik Theodore

AirGo is partnering with UIC's Social Justice Initiative to present The Sawyer Seminar, a series of conversations hosted by UIC scholars entitled Radical Care, Real Alternatives. On this second episode, we hear from Nik Theodore, a professor at UIC and Director of the UIC Center for Urban Economic Development, and AirGo fam Rich Wallace, who is the Director of EAT (Equity and Transformation) Chicago. In conversation with Prof. Stacey Sutton, they break down the concept and implications of the informal economy, and dive deep into the stories they cultivated as part of their new report entitled Survival Economies(https://www.eatchicago.org/survival-economy-report). SHOW NOTES Survival Economies Report - https://www.eatchicago.org/survival-economy-report EAT Chicago - https://www.eatchicago.org National Domestic Workers Alliance - https://www.domesticworkers.org/ National Day Laborer Organizing Network - https://ndlon.org/ UIC’s Great Cities Institute - https://greatcities.uic.edu/ UIC Scholars for Social Justice - sji.uic.edu/ Transcription by Ayinde Jean-Baptiste