Guest Profile

LaKeisha Wolf

Executive Director, Ujama Collective:

Cultural worker, creative entrepreneur, and teaching artist with an emphasis on identity, racial justice, community connection, and whole-body wellness.

As a first-generation Pittsburgher, LaKeisha Wolf has developed her roots across the community, working at the intersection of arts and culture, social entrepreneurship, and community development and wellness for 20 years. She is a founding member of the Ujamaa Collective and has served as Executive Director since 2013. 

In this role, LaKeisha focuses on the agency’s business affairs, including the cooperative development of emerging Africana women-owned craft industries, and maintaining an artisans’ retail boutique in conjunction with creative community programming. She initiated the organization’s first direct, fair trade relationship in East Africa.

She has been immersed in the world of cooperative economics for over two decades, learning with organizations such as NASCO Institute’s Emerging Cooperative Leaders Program, and the Eastern Conference on Workplace Democracy and serving as a panelist for the National Cooperative Business Association. She previously served as a board member for the East End Food Co-op’s Federal Credit Union and currently serves on the board for the Hill District Federal Credit Union, the advisory board for the Pittsburgh Black Worker Center, and is a founding member of the National Association of Black Cooperators.