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Jazz Governance?

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Throughout a decade in music journalism and academia, I've conducted dozens of interviews. (A few of my favorites: Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Fred Wesley, Erwin Díaz.) Yesterday, I was reminded of how much I missed those conversations when I found myself on the other side of the interviewer's chair. Alongside my co-workers Brittany and Marina, we were discussing our new mental health worker cooperative, Catalyst Cooperative Healing, with Nellie Marshall-Torres from Wellspring Cooperative. To start the interview, Nellie invited each of us to tell our story about how we arrived at the idea of starting a worker cooperative, given that this model is still uncommon in the mental health field. (Alliance Collective and Phoenix Mental Health are the two other active mental health cooperatives that we are currently aware of in the United States.) My answer came as a surprise even to myself: starting with Jazz as a paradigm for how to be in the world, I described it as "how to take what's the

Throughout a decade in music journalism and academia, I've conducted dozens of interviews. (A few of my favorites: Sonny Rollins , Wayne Shorter , Fred Wesley , Erwin Díaz .) Yesterday, I was reminded of how much I missed those conversations when I found myself on the other side of the interviewer's chair. Alongside my co-workers Brittany and Marina, we were discussing our new mental health worker cooperative, Catalyst Cooperative Healing , with Nellie Marshall-Torres from Wellspring Cooperative . To start the interview, Nellie invited each of us to tell our story about how we arrived at the i

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