About Us
Thought Leadership
We produce applied policy research on opportunities to create owners with a focus on assets and wealth
Organize and Mobilize
Our model is based on organizing and mobilizing a diverse, cross-partisan coalition of ownership advocates
Our mission is to turn Americans into owners.
Our Vision
Ownership America envisions a nation of owners characterized by freedom, dignity, responsible stewardship, and economic independence. Underpinning this vision is the recognition that the ideals of political equality and democracy are mutually dependent upon a propertied citizenry.
Our Approach
Ownership America is building an organization premised on the power and scalability of digital organizing. Our efforts are focused on building a program that seeds, advises, and wins grassroots-powered policy initiatives that create owners. We believe that the road to large-scale federal action runs through the states and are building our organizing model from the ground up.
Ownership America has adopted a dual-entity organizational structure that combines the capabilities of a 501(c)(3) and an affiliated 501(c)(4) to effectively coordinate thought leadership and political advocacy.
Who We Are



Corey received his Ph.D. in political science from Cornell University in 1973, after which he taught politics at Ripon College in Wisconsin before being named an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in 1975. He worked on Capitol Hill for the next five years, where he helped initiate and draft legislation on ESOPs and employee ownership. In 1981, he formed the NCEO.
Advisory Board
Ownership America is fortunate to be advised by an Advisory Board composed of leading academics, thought leaders, and practitioners that bring a diverse set of perspectives to the mission of advancing broad-based ownership.


Previously, Philip partnered with 1863 Ventures, where he led an industry-agnostic program focused on scaling New Majority businesses through operational improvements, sustainable sales processes, human capital best practices and financial management. Philip’s background includes serving as the Manager of Small Business Technology and Innovation for the Government of the District of Columbia and working in corporate development for a growing government contractor, where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships and business development. Philip began his career in private equity at Lehman Brothers.
He is the former President (Curator) of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Washington, DC Hub and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College.


He is on the board of directors of Quiktrip; a Midwest based convenience store chain with over $12 billion in revenues. He also serves on the board of directors of HAC, Inc.; the parent company of Homeland Stores, a 100% ESOP owned grocery store operator. Also, he is the past chair of the Valuation Advisory Committee of the ESOP Association and an active member of the National Center for Employee, Association for Corporate Growth, and Employee-Owned S Corporations of America.

She has a bachelor’s degree in Communications and Journalism and graduated Magna Cum Laude from St. John Fisher College. She recently also completed an Executive MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology. She was nominated by her EMBA peers for the Donna Scheid Leadership award and is part of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor’s Society.
Currently she sits on the board of the National Center for Employee Ownership and Rochester Institute of Technology, Management Advisory Board.
Amanda has spoken at St. John Fisher College, Rochester Institute of Technology, Roberts Wesleyan College, the American Marketing Association, ClickZ, the National Center for Employee Ownership, Step UP, the Direct Marketing Association, the Rochester Advertising Federation, Digital Innovation Week, and the Epsilon Conference. Her hobbies include snowboarding, golf, and paddle boarding.

Berry's corporate experience includes work as an engineer and manager in engineering, product management, and marketing departments at startup and large multi-national telecommunications firms.
Her research interests include:
● Employee-owned workplaces
● Worker cooperatives
● Socially sustainable workplaces
● Demographic diversity in organizations
● Outcomes to modest-income workers

Palladino’s research centers on corporate power, stakeholder corporations, shareholder primacy, and the relationship between corporate governance and the labor market. She has also written on financial transaction taxes, employee ownership, and the rise of fintech. She has published in Politics & Society, the International Review of Applied Economics, the Yale Journal of Regulation, and Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law, as well as the Financial Times and State Tax Notes. She frequently works with policymakers, media, and advocates on corporate and financial policy. Recent working papers include “The Economic Argument for Stakeholder Corporations” and “Do Corporate Insiders use Stock Buybacks for Personal Gain?” She has testified on the impacts of stock buybacks before the House Financial Services Committee.
Prior to joining UMass, Palladino was senior economist and policy counsel at the Roosevelt Institute and a lecturer in economics at Smith College. She was previously vice president for advocacy at Demos and a lecturer in economics at New York University. Earlier in her career, she was campaign director at MoveOn, a lead organizer with the labor union CSEA-AFSCME, and national director of United Students Against Sweatshops.

A Fellow of the Century Foundation and regular commissioned author for the New America Foundation, Hockett also does regular consulting work for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the International Monetary Fund, Americans for Financial Reform, the 'Occupy' Cooperative, and a number of federal and state legislators and local governments.
Prior to doing his doctoral work and entering academia, he worked for the International Monetary Fund and clerked for the Honorable Deanell Reece Tacha, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.