Minsun Ji

she/her
Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center; The Drivers Cooperative – Denver, CO

Minsun Ji (Ph.D.) 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 is currently organizing rideshare drivers to launch the Drivers Cooperative-Colorado and helping efforts in other cities to launch a platform worker cooperative for rideshare drivers in collaboration with the Drivers Cooperative (in New York).

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).