Speakers
Cade Underwood, Director of Legislation and Policy, Comradery.co
Cade Underwood (he/they) is the Director of Legislation and Policy for the Office of Philadelphia City Councilmember and Minority Party Whip Nicolas O'Rourke, a member of the Working Families Party. In this role, Cade worked with PACA/USFWC to pass legislation supporting cooperative development in Philadelphia. Before his time in City Council, Cade worked as a Research Assistant at the Housing Initiative at Penn, where he researched the growth of investor ownership of single family housing in Philadelphia. Cade is also a founding member and worker-owner of Comradery Worker Cooperative, a platform-based worker cooperative supporting artists and creatives online. Cade graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School as well as the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design with a Master of City Planning.