Senior Fellow

Professor Anthony Cook is a Senior Fellow with The Democracy Collaborative. He is the Reynolds Family Endowed professor of law at Georgetown University. A graduate of Yale Law School, a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, he has completed two fellowships at Harvard University, the first in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School of Government and the second in Religion and Public Values at the Harvard Divinity School.

He is the Founder and Faculty Director of the Coalition for Racial Equity and Democratic Economy (CREDE) focused on building community wealth through community-owned and controlled enterprises in low and moderate income communities of color, nurturing third places where mutuality, healing, and belonging can flourish. CREDE incubates local worker, consumer, producer, and resident ownership solutions to food and housing insecurity in the DMV. Its inaugural initiative, Rosie’s Grocery, partners with local communities in the DMV and retail grocery sector leaders to deliver five full service grocery stores to Low Income Low Access to Fresh Food communities.

One of the founding stakeholders of the Critical Race Theory movement, he teaches courses on Race and Democracy, Critical Theory, Community Development, and the life and times of Martin Luther King, Jr. His Community Development Practicum delivers a range of legal and business support to innovative initiatives designed to Resist and Rebuild systems that extract the wealth of some communities to build the wealth of others.

He has served as a national officer of the Community Development Society (CDS) and was named the Society’s Innovative Program recipient in 2024 for his work on Community Wealth Building. He is a career practitioner in the fields of community development and solidarity economics. For his work as a scholar and community development practitioner, the American Bar Association honored Professor Cook as One of 21 Lawyers Leading America into the 21st Century, citing his work as a “unique synergy of thought and action.”

Contacts

Email: cooka@georgetown.edu