Bio
G. Sequane Lawrence is the President and CEO of Revolution Institute, a community economic development and workforce development organization in Chicago focused on advanced manufacturing, cooperative business development and the digital economy on behalf of under resourced communities. Sequane is a Chicago Community Trust 2011 Fellow. His fellowship is concerned with the efficacy of worker owner cooperatives as an entrepreneurial and workforce development model for low-income people. Sequane led a delegation to Mondragon, in the Basque region of Spain to study first-hand the historic Mondragon Cooperatives Corporation and Cleveland, Ohio to observe the ground-breaking worker-owned Evergreen Cooperatives. Sequane is a founder of African American Leadership and Policy Institute, a research and advocacy organization committed to action research and advocacy in six pillars (i.e., reparations, economic and workforce development, health and wellness, education, criminal justice, family strengthening). Sequane holds a Master of Science degree in Community Economic Development from New Hampshire College in Manchester, New Hampshire.
