Taji Amani

Taji Amani moved to his father’s hometown of Baltimore in 2016. He has worked in digital marketing, private wealth management, microfinance and small business technical assistance. Today, at Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy (BRED), Taji works with seasoned business owners who are selling ownership of their businesses to their employees, forming worker-owned businesses. Taji introduces these owners and employees to BRED and provides advice on the financial and governance considerations behind such business succession planning. He also works with startup businesses that plan to develop as worker-owned cooperatives.

Recognizing the relationship between the distribution of power in the private sector and that of the public sector, Taji is motivated by the solidarity economy movement to realize economic democracy and deeper, political democracy. To that end, he spent over five years volunteering on the board of an effort to start a community-owned food cooperative in Baltimore’s Cherry Hill neighborhood. Taji likes to bike, jog, swim and play basketball. He has a bachelor’s degree in International Relations with a specialization in international political economy from Stanford University.

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