About Us
The Cooperative New School is an institutional basis for community-based change and cooperative development. The faculty and staff are worker-owners and the students are consumer-owners.
C.N.E. Corbin is a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management within the Division of Society & Environment.
I am a PhD Candidate in Geography at UC Berkeley, former Press Director for the Stein/Baraka 2016 Presidential campaign, and a longtime political journalist, educator and organizer involved in a wide range of movements for social & environmental justice.
I am an educator, organizer, public organic intellectual, redneck, banjo player, and homespun gadfly. In 2016, I founded The Cooperative New School for Urban Studies and Environmental Justice. Over the next year, we grew from four to nine faculty- and staff-owners.
I am currently a Senior Program Officer for the McKnight Foundation's International Program. Previously, I coordinated an urban agroecology certificate at Merritt College in Oakland, California. I also co-founded a worker self-directed non-profit called Agroecology Commons.
I am an urban agroecology educator or urbicultora at UNAM, UAQ and ENSQ. I am also an ESL Teacher for future Secondary education teachers. My researchs interests include topics related to community forestry co-ops governance, forest products marketing, urban agroecology and language for Normalistas teachers with a focus on agroecological pedagogies.
We envision growing a committed group of student owners to form communities of learning and scholarship. As a student owner of the CNS, you will receive a 20% discount on the sliding scale pricing on live webinars and 12-week courses offered by the CNS. You also will have access the student owner governance body, with an opportunity to join a portion of the CNS's annual retreat. Student- and faculty-owners design curricula, certificates, and activist scholarship research agendas.