We are thrilled  to announce the Community & Worker Ownership Project (CWOP) has a new intern that will be working with us on communications and research. 

Lesly Calle has joined our team! She is a fourth-year Macaulay Honors student at the City College of New York pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Economics. 

For the summer term, she worked with the World Resources Institute under the Climate team, where she performed research on carbon pricing initiatives and learned of the disproportionate impacts carbon emissions have on low-income communities and communities of color. Lesly was part of the inaugural class of Climate Policy Fellows at the Colin Powell School of Civic and Global Leadership in the Fall semester of 2019. As a fellow, she worked with a team to develop a policy brief on single-use plastic mitigation and its effects on climate change. 

For the 2020-2021 academic year, Lesly was selected for the Edward I. Koch Fellowship in Public Service at CCNY, which helped her develop a partnership with CWOP this semester to help us develop and enhance our communications strategy. In the coming months, she will help to promote the understanding of cooperatives and economic democracy as part of the solution for our current economic injustices. 

Lesly is interested in social justice, economic inequality, and environmental policy and is looking to understand how economics can serve as a bridge for equality. Through this internship, she hopes to learn of the role cooperative economies play in promoting economic justice and building community wealth both locally and globally. To further her understanding in this topic, she is taking a class on Economic Democracy at the School for Labor and Urban Studies taught by professor Michael Menser. 

Lesly was born and raised in NYC and is a first generation college student. 

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