Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative

The Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative is a limited equity housing cooperative in Columbia Heights, DC, guided by the Kwanzaa principle Ujamaa meaning cooperative economics. Our mission is to build a solid foundation of cooperation and community participation that will serve as a model for community building, neighborhood improvement and the effectuation of the Kwanzaa Principles. We get our inspiration from Ella Josephine Baker, known affectionately as Miss Ella, a tireless human rights fighter who committed her life to the building of cooperation and participatory democracy coming from the bottom upward, for the purpose of bringing about social justice.

Our vision, like Miss Ella’s is for a strong community in which neighbors are interdependent upon each other, share resources and support and collectively make decisions for the betterment of their neighborhood.

Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative
Columbia Heights, DC