Minsun Ji (Ph.D.) (she/her/hers) is a labor-community organizer, activist scholar and popular educator. Currently, Minsun is the Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center (RMEOC), which promotes employee ownership through coop conversion, coop incubation, research and policy. She launched the Drivers Cooperative-Colorado (DCC), which is Colorado’s largest platform worker cooperative that utilizes a pre-scheduled and on-demand app to provide higher wages to rideshare drivers and to provide reliable and affordable transportation service to underserved community members. She is also actively engaged in advocating for the need to create a new cooperative category of “social cooperatives” in the U.S. which define the “public interest” and a “social mission”—such as serving a marginalized community—as their main purpose.
Minsun was the graduate program director of the Center for New Directions in Politics and Public Policy in the Political Science Department at the University of Colorado Denver where she created graduate program tracks in the social economy and community/labor organizing. Minsun organized immigrant janitors, immigrant day laborers and domestic workers and was the founder and executive director of Denver’s first worker center, El Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores (Humanitarian Center for Workers).