Lauren Hudson is a collective member of SolidarityNYC, a solidarity economy organizing collective. In addition to this work, she holds a doctorate in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center and is an adjunct lecturer in urban studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies where she teaches Economic Democracy as part of their Workplace Democracy and Community Ownership program. She is also an adjunct lecturer in geography at Sarah Lawrence College and teaches classes related to feminist urban geography and labor with ThinkOlio.