To achieve economic equality, we must reimagine and reconfigure how capital and power are shared with BIPOC communities. While laudable, access to capital conversations that solely focus on dollars are insufficient for transformative change.
Not enough investors are talking about who is not just at the table, but who has the power to invite them, when (if at all) they are invited in the process, and how much (if any) true agency and decision-making authority they have over investments that impact them the most.
From truly equitable and generative partnerships between national investors, legal counsel and local communities, to infusing indigenous values throughout underwriting and designing financing terms in conversation with prospective beneficiaries, we are guided by a common thread: through action, not rhetoric, we center and empower the most impacted communities in our investments.
Speakers
Eric Horvath
Director of Capital Strategies
Common Future
Keneshia Raymond
Director of Programs & Access to Capital
Startup Tucson
Walter Alarkon
Senior Associate
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Jaime Gloshay
Co-CEO
Native Women Lead