… Director at Black Farmer Fund . Olivia is a social entrepreneur and impact investor. For the past seven years, she has financed, developed, and operated environmental and social projects across the US. She also previously served as a board … and a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University in Environmental Biology. She was also recognized on the 2021 Forbes 30 under 30 Social Impact list and The Grist 50. Thriving Food …
… Lindsey has 30+ years of investment and management experience, is a recognized thought leader in sustainable finance and has a proven track record working both … investment and asset management firms and funds, private operating companies, and mission-forward institutions who want to build, realign and scale institutional-quality sustainable … Sustainable Finance and ESG Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Lindsey Brace Martinez … Advisory Board, Alumni Lindsey Brace Martinez Founder and CEO at StarPoint …
… new products and business models. Since her time at Yale, Meaghan has worked for companies advancing innovative business models to scale more sustainable food production … partnerships and product development. During her time at Yale SOM/FES, Meaghan worked for Patagonia’s internal venture capital and corporate development group and on Sonen … Boulder and received an MBA/MEM from Yale’s School of Management and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 2016. She lives in Idaho and spends her spare time skiing and …
… to help all stakeholders act on climate challenges. He's written journalism and research for the New York Times, the Atlantic, Bloomberg CityLab, the Urban Land Institute, the … high schools, Pratt Institute, NYU Stern School of Business, and in enrichment training for teachers in the New York City Department of Education. He was recently CBEY's News Editor, where he coached students writing stories for the Clean Energy Finance Forum and Conservation Finance Network websites. He lives in …
… Colin is a joint MBA and Master of Environmental Management candidate, focusing on how we can deploy finance to cultivate food … Uganda. Prior to that he worked in One Acre Fund's strategy team, developing joint ventures for seed production in Rwanda and identifying opportunities for smallholder farmers to access global crop markets, among other projects. Colin came to …
… Brooks Lamb is the author of Love for the Land : Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place (Yale Univ. Press, 2023), a book … the intersecting topics of land, farming, virtues, justice, conservation, character, community, environmentalism, and more. Although he now lives in Memphis, Brooks grew up on a small farm …
… Christina is a Master of Environmental Management Candidate at the Yale School of the Environment studying collaborative solutions to protecting wildlife on working lands. Before coming to YSE, she worked for an environmental nonprofit, focusing on water and … holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Molecular Environmental Biology and EnvironmentalEconomics & Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. Sustainable Finance and ESG …
… Climate Corps Fellow with BFA Global. During her internship, she helped build innovation ecosystems in emerging markets for the TECA climate venture launcher and built a gallery of climate-smart financial … further investment and development. Monica graduated from Rice University with a degree in Environmental Science and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Sustainable Finance and ESG …
… (MBA) Candidate at the Yale School of Management studying strategy and financing foreconomic development and natural capital solutions, with a particular interest in the … Yale, she worked in consulting with Accenture Development Partnerships, the social and environmental impact arm of Accenture Strategy that delivers strategy, innovation, and …
… Nikita is a Master of Environmental Management candidate at the Yale School of the Environment. Prior to joining … worked with organizations such as the Indian Institute of Sustainable Development and Teach for Green in the sustainability strategy and environmental education space. She holds a … to work in impact finance and funding climate solutions focused on increasing resilience for communities that are disproportionately affected by climate change. She is currently …