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The Conference has moved Online. Please register here to be added to the contacts network and here for the Zoom.
The 2026 Management and Social Justice Conference (MSJC) invites scholars, practitioners, artists, technologists, policymakers, and students to join us at Parsons School of Design, The New School, in New York City. From April 29 to May 1, 2026, we will explore how entrepreneurship can serve as a vehicle for social justice through diverse epistemologies and praxis. In this gathering, we particularly foreground domains such as poverty and economic exclusion, women’s and minority entrepreneurship, religion and spirituality in enterprise, and emerging entrepreneurial responses to homelessness, food deserts, immigration, and displacement. We also invite new, experimental, and unforeseen approaches through our Novel & Emerging Perspectives track.
The conference will also result in a published conference proceedings of extended abstracts and a peer reviewed edited volume to be published Spring.Â
Presented by Management, Leadership, and Entrepreneurial program at the Parsons School of Design Strategies.
Aligned with The New School’s established 'pracademic' model (MSJC 2023, MSJ 2025), this conference interrogates entrepreneurship as a vehicle for social justice with emphasis on Global South epistemologies and praxis. We center this work in three interconnected pillars:
• Decolonizing Capital – dismantling ethnicity, caste, gender, and race-based exclusion through community ownership, reparative finance, and solidarity economics.
• Reparative Technologies – co-created accessible technologies that redistribute power and resist algorithmic oppression.
• Solidarity Ecosystems – South-South collaborations, South-North collaborations, policy bridges, and knowledge networks that bypass colonial structures.
Our vision extends beyond financial inclusion, recognizing that entrepreneurship is also a response to trauma, exclusion, and resilience. It engages spiritual, cultural, and community traditions as sources of innovation, while addressing urgent issues like migration, displacement, homelessness, and ecological breakdown. By embracing both established and novel perspectives, MSJC 2026 seeks to catalyze entrepreneurship as a transformative force for liberation and justice across contexts.
Dr. John Gershenson is the Director of the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) Program at Penn State University. He has a B.A. in physics from Cornell University, an M.S. in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of Idaho
Committed to amplifying diverse voices, The New School offers more than a thousand public programs and events each year, providing fresh perspectives and unique learning opportunities. These lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and performances feature prominent and emerging artists, activists, and thought leaders.
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