Jason Wiener

Jason is the Principal of a boutique law and business consulting practice and co-founder of “Colorado Cooperative Developers”. Jason’s specialty is in off-and-online cooperative law, alternative and user/community ownership models, cooperative finance, regenerative capital and financing strategies, sustainable economies law, and worker-ownership. Jason has advised on 5 worker-cooperative conversions, 2 multi-stakeholder land ownership conversion, and more than 5 platform cooperatives. Jason has also advised numerous clients through socially responsible financings, including through membership capital campaigns, private offerings, and qualified intrastate public offerings. Jason’s recent work includes serving as cooperative and regulatory counsel to Green Taxi Cooperative, the second largest worker cooperative and largest taxicab cooperative in the U.S., counsel to Member’s Media, CommonShare, and consultant for Yellow Seed. Jason holds a B.S. from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a J.D. cum laude from Suffolk University Law School, where he received honors with a concentration in international law.

Jason serves on the Boards of several worker-owned businesses around the country, including Equal Exchange and Colorado Recovery.

Jason has published more than 6 scholarly law review articles on international, human rights and fair trade, open sourcing renewable energy technology topics and speaks regularly about socially responsible alternative financing and capitalization strategies, cooperatives and social enterprise business models. Jason is an adjunct professor in CSU’s Global Sustainability and Social Enterprise program, where he teaches an MBA course on business law and ethics. He is also a guest lecturer at C.U. Law’s Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, and is advising the C.U Law School’s new Sustainable Community Development Clinic.