
Minsun Ji (Ph.D.) is a labor-community organizer, activist scholar, and popular educator. She has long experience in nonprofit management and employee ownership efforts. She is currently the director of the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center (RMEOC), a Denver nonprofit dedicated to the creation of employee-owned businesses. She also served as a Colorado Governor’s Commissioner on Employee Ownership (FY 2019-2020) and has been actively engaged in launching the Drivers' Cooperative-Colorado for rideshare drivers, the largest worker-owned platform cooperative in Colorado. Previously, Minsun was the founder and long-time executive director of El Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores (Humanitarian Center for Workers), a worker center in Denver that organized immigrant day laborers and domestic workers. She was also a labor union organizer with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and was a labor activist in her native country, South Korea. Minsun received her Ph.D. from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and her research specializations include international political economy, worker cooperatives, social movements, labor politics of different countries, and solidarity economy.