Deb Nelson has a job at RSF Social Finance that is all about helping people align their values with their money, all while helping fund entrepreneurs for social impact businesses.
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Tell Me More: About Impact Investing
We are thrilled to share the first post in “Tell Me More” – a new series that aims to go deeper on fast-growing, future-thinking industries. Our inaugural piece celebrates women who work in impact investing – a field that allows investors to align their values with their investments.
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IWHJ the Podcast
Cherilyn Parsons: Founder, Bay Area Book Festival
As a book lover since childhood, Cherilyn Parsons longed to be a part of the literary community. So, she risked her security, job stability and comfort for her dream of starting a world-class book festival in Berkeley, California.
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Marta Bralic: Vice President of Business Development, Flatiron Health
If there was one cure we’re sure we’d all like to see, it’s a cure for cancer. And one of the companies pioneering the way in sharing data – so researchers can finally track down that elusive cure – is Flatiron Health.
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Tanna Larson
Tanna Larson was on the quest for all things pure and natural to moisturize and clean her body, as well as the bodies of her loved ones. Despite the claims of many products to fit the bill, she grew frustrated as she stared at label after label with lists of ingredients she couldn’t pronounce or…
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Cara Kleinhaut
Cara Kleinhaut had a job many of us would consider dreamy. She worked for years as an in-house producer at Sony Music Entertainment, and before that as an assistant tour manager to music icon Mariah Carey. But something in her drove her to break out on her own. So, in 2001, she launched Caravent—now rebranded…
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IWHJ the Podcast
Dawn Lippert, Co-Founder of Elemental Excelerator, Talks With Us About The Future Of Clean Energy
Today’s interview is with someone hustling to change the future of clean energy, Dawn Lippert. As the co-founder of Elemental Excelerator (formerly Energy Excelerator), a startup accelerator program based in Hawaii, Dawn and her team helps budding businesses change the world, one community at a time.
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Hope Alcocer
Hope Alcocer was pretty much a writer from the time she figured out how to put pen to paper. What began as journaling at the wise age of five turned into a career at the continued instance of a professor. So Hope, who wasn’t one for the typical 9-to-5, began her literary career doing freelance…
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Michelle Suwannukul
If you’ve worked anywhere—from a sandwich shop to a Fortune 500—for any length of time, you know that corporate culture totally matters. At Instacart, a tech company that’s revolutionizing how we get our groceries, that culture is so important that they hired Michelle Suwannukul to proactively foster it. Now that sounds like a pretty cool…
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Lizzi Ackerman
Lizzi Ackerman had her mind set on being a doctor. That decision, made after a life-changing event, seemed perfect—until it wasn’t. “As much as I loved medicine,” admits Lizzi, “it wasn’t the right fit.” But that didn’t stop her from being a doctor; she just went a different direction. Lizzi left medicine behind to become…