Camille Kerr joined The ICA Group as its Associate Director in June of 2016. She is a lawyer, business consultant, speaker, writer, and advocate for the various forms of employee ownership.
Previously, she worked at the Democracy at Work Institute, developing and directing Workers to Owners, a national collaborative aimed at scaling worker cooperatives through transitions of existing businesses to worker ownership. She has also served as the Director of Research at the National Center for Employee Ownership, launching the organization’s outreach initiative and managing its various research projects. Camille speaks frequently about employee ownership and has produced and contributed to publications on a variety of topics related to alternative ownership structures. Camille also serves as a director for Prospera, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the economic and social wellbeing of low-income women through cooperative business ownership. She earned a J.D. from the University Of Cincinnati
College Of Law, where she was an Arthur Russell Morgan Fellow for Human Rights and graduated cum laude.
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Platform cooperativism has the potential to completely transform the caregiving industry – including childcare and homecare – into dignified jobs where people make a livable wage and have control over their work lives. Because of this potential, the ICA Group has been partnering with multiple divisions of the Service Employees International Union to research, build models, and launch unionized platform coops. For example, The ICA Group has been working with SEIU Public Services Division to develop a childcare platform solution that enables family childcare providers to benefit from shared services, centralized administration, as well as joint marketing services. The coop-network, likely to launch this coming spring, will further act as a bridge between industry, unions and policy-makers who share the goal of improving childcare jobs and quality.