Women’s History Month is dedicated to celebrating the often overlooked contributions of women to our culture, history, and society. This Women’s History Month, we’ll be shining a spotlight on some of the incredible women who have devoted themselves to the cooperative movement and helped to make our world a better, more cooperative, place.
Louise Herring, sometimes called “the mother of credit unions,” was only 23 years old when she started to organize credit unions. An employee of the Kroger Company, Herring set up credit unions to serve Kroger employees, who often had difficulty getting loans from banks. Herring became involved with the national cooperative movement and was a key player at the 1934 Estes Park conference that established CUNA, despite being one of the youngest delegates at the event. Later, she became the first director of the Ohio Credit Union League. In that role, she helped organize more than 500 credit unions across the state.
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A cooperative ambassador, economist and community economic development expert, Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard is a historian of cooperative empowerment and transformation within low-income and minority communities. Her vison and principled leadership positioned cooperatives as tools for economic and racial justice in the 21st century and supported her 2016 induction into the Cooperative Hall of Fame.
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