Building Collective Economies: Dr. Maliha Safri

Drew University's Dr. Maliha Safri is set to deliver a talk ‘Community Economies: Organizing for the Common Good’ Sept. 26 as part of of URI’s fall Honors Colloquium.

Maliha Safri’s areas of expertise are political economy, community and solidarity economies and migration. She has published journal articles, book chapters and book reviews, made dozens of conference presentations and won both a National Science Foundation grant and the Julie Graham Writing Fellowship (twice). She is a member of the N.Y.C. Worker Cooperative Development Initiative and leads its research team. Maliha is fluent in English, Gujarati and Spanish and proficient in Urdu and French. She earned a PhD and MA in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BA in economics from Knox College.