BMCC Economics Seminar Series: Economics of Black Women’s Unseen Community Activism
About Dr. Nina Banks
Dr. Nina Banks is an associate professor of economics at Bucknell University and the current President of the National Economic Association (NEA). She is known for her research on the contributions of early women economists, particularly, the first black economist in the U.S. –– Dr. Sadie Tanner Mossel Alexander. Her other publications focus on social reproduction and migrant households, and black women and work.
Dr. Banks is a faculty mentor for the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE) program. She serves on the editorial boards of Feminist Economics and The Review of Black Political Economy. She organized the first joint annual Freedom and Justice conference of the National Economic Association and the American Society for Hispanic Economists (ASHE).
Currently, she is working on several book projects, including a biography and edited volume of the speeches and writings of Sadie Alexander, a manuscript titled Gender, Race, and Environmental Activism: Women of Color Working for Tomorrow, and a co-authored book with Cecilia Conrad and Rhonda Sharpe, on Black Women in the U.S. Economy: the Hardest Working Woman.
