Carolina Miranda
Carolina Miranda is the Founder of Cultivating Capital. As a B Corp Consultant, she has helped businesses achieve B Corp certification and increase their impact and score with recertification. She is recognized for her expertise with the performance standards. In addition to her experience working directly with companies throughout the certification process, she is one […]
Dr. Tiffany Jana
Dr. Jana is a non-binary Afrofuturist and Pleasure Activist. They use their work and art to create a loving embrace of people and culture that includes an emphasis on liberation through joy. Doc Jana is the author of four inclusion books, including three bestsellers and a book of poetry. They are a serial entrepreneur, yogi, […]
Diana Marie Lee
Diana Marie Lee has been a life and organizational health coach for 32 years, supporting leaders and visionaries to rest and reclaim their dreams and well-being with magic and abundance. Their roots are African American and Cherokee Nation, from Tahlequah and Muskogee, Oklahoma. Diana is an experienced healer, activist, entrepreneur and capacity builder who brings […]
Mandy Cabot
Mandy has been a leader in innovative social enterprises since starting a shoe company in their garage in 1990 and growing it into the multimillion-dollar, employee-owned company, Dansko. Dansko has been recognized for its leadership in advancing socially and environmentally responsible business practices, winning numerous awards, including the “Triple Bottom Line Award” from the Social […]
Zakia Moulaoui Guery
Zakia Moulaoui Guery, founder and CEO of Invisible Cities, pitched the international expansion of her United Kingdom-based social enterprise. Invisible Cities trains people who have experienced homelessness to become walking tour guides of their own cities. Headquartered in Edinburgh and covering six cities currently through an innovative franchise model, Invisible Cities exists to provide exceptional […]
Juan Carlos Garcia
Kapawi Ecolodge was represented by Juan Carlos Garcia, who pitched a community ecotourism summit so the Achuar people of Ecuador can collectively plan how to expand sustainable tourism activities in their communities for years to come. Kapawi Ecolodge is a 100% indigenous community-owned (and 100% solar-powered) enterprise in the Amazon Rainforest that offers conscious and […]
Monique Greenwood
Monique Greenwood from Akwaaba Bed and Breakfast Inns uses tourism to create a positive impact for the local community as well as for travelers. Akwaaba, which means “welcome” in a native dialect of Ghana, was originally launched in Brooklyn and now has locations in the Poconos and West Philadelphia. As one of the few black-owned […]
Yve-Car Momperousse
Yve-Car Momperousse co-founded Kreyol Essence, creators of plant based and ethically sourced personal care products from Haiti. Using ingredients such as Haitian Black Castor Oil, Kreyol Essence supports the replanting of Castor trees, which support reforestation and work for Haitian farmers. This is one of a growing number of our investees that have been on […]
Rachel Faller
Rachel Faller was a Fulbright scholar studying the devastating impacts of “fast fashion” in Cambodia – the source of many of our clothes here in the West – with no intention of becoming an entrepreneur. After witnessing the horrific working conditions in the fashion industry and the waste of tons of fabric (literally tons and […]
