"Re-creating the New city: Worker Ownership in an African American Context" is an interactive workshop to introduce participants to the concept of democratic community-based eocnomic development and ways that worker owned businesses contribute to their community and to community economic development. Discussion will focus on needs of marginalized communities and explore the history of African American worker cooperatives and community owned businesses. Participants will be tasked with identifying needs in their communities and designing the elements of a "new city" - to make a presentation to a fictitious town or city council about what kinds of businesses to develop and why.