Are you interested in reading to further your professional or personal development? Maybe it’s a New Year resolution to read more books this year? Join our book club!

We will read books related to community development topics of housing, food access, financial empowerment, economic development, and community engagement; place-based, urban/rural, and neighborhood issues; empathy; and leadership and other professional development skills useful to community developers. This is a low commitment club meaning that you can come and go from the club per your interest in a particular book. You do not need to be an OCDCA member to participate in the book club.

Our first book as chosen by members who previously expressed interest in the book club is Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran. OCDCA is very excited about this since Professor Baradaran was a keynote speaker at our 2020 Annual Conference last October.

If you’d like a bit extra, make sure to watch or listen to the Q&A keynote session with Mehrsa Baradaran and OCDCA’s board vice president from last October.