Adwoa is very passionate about diversifying the talent pipeline for careers in socially responsible investing. Her current role as Program Manager of the MIINT program (MBA Impact Investing Network and Training) allows her to do just that! Adwoa is a systematic program builder. She successfully grew the MIINT program 22% in her first twelve months while also pivoting the program to its first ever virtual format and overseeing a curriculum redesign. Adwoa has been a member of numerous inaugural fellowship programs helping to build new programs from within. Most notably are the New England Impact Investing Initiative Fellowship, Net Impact Diversity in Impact Investing Fellowship, and TPP Real Estate Development Fund Fellowship. She earned her Social Impact MBA from The Heller School at Brandeis University. During her time in graduate school, she was heavily involved with entrepreneurial startup events, the career development center, and was graduation speaker and president of her MBA class. Her leadership led to the creation of new courses on impact investing and diversity in-the-workplace. Prior to joining the staff of Bridges Impact Foundation, Adwoa worked at Habitat for Humanity for eight years as an Associate Director and community organizer. She is a talented program manager with an entrepreneurial spirit and spark for inclusive ideas. Adwoa is a native of Durham, North Carolina and earned her BA in Psychology from Wake Forest University. In her free time, she actively participates in social justice programs at Middle Collegiate Church, reviews business plans as an EforAll reader, and builds internationally with Habitat for Humanity.

Eric Weigel is a Partner at Little House Capital, an SEC-registered wealth and investment management firm where he leads the firm’s ESG efforts. Eric has over 30 years of investment management and capital market research experience having worked in senior leadership roles at some of the premier asset managers in the industry such as Russell, Invesco, Pioneer, MFS and Hermes. He holds a M.B.A from the University of Chicago, a M.S. from the University of Minnesota, and a B.S. in agricultural economics from Iowa State University.

Jess Borawski is an Integration Manager at Seamans Capital Management, LLC, a hybrid family office whose mission is to invest at the intersection of progressive change and financial stability. In her role, Jess leads the strategic integration of external resources and proprietary research into the firm’s systems to actualize business results. Jess began her career in traditional finance, building a strong foundation in markets, analytics, and client relations. In 2022, she moved to England to pursue her passion for impact, joining Ecofin in London as a Senior Analyst on the Sustainability and Responsible Investing team. While there, she helped develop and support the firm’s sustainability strategy, stewardship efforts, and ESG integration. Before Ecofin, Jess served as a Fixed Income Client Portfolio Analyst at a global asset manager, Loomis Sayles, and worked in trading for Stockbridge Investors, a marketable securities investing group within Berkshire Partners. She earned the CFA Institute's Sustainable Investing Certificate in 2022 and is currently working toward the CFA Institute’s Climate Risk, Valuation, and Investing Certificate. She holds a B.S. in International Business, Finance, and Spanish from Northeastern University.

Lubna Elia has spent twenty years in the social enterprise and impact investing sectors. She has experience with various aspects of nonprofit management including operational oversight, board operations, program management, fundraising, finance, legal resources, compliance, risk management, human resources and administration. She has an academic background in international relations and economic development, and is fluent in Spanish. 

Terry serves on the leadership team for the NEIII Fellowship and helps with NEIII fundraising and partnership efforts as a board member. Terry works for BNY Mellon Investment Management as a registered representative on the institutional client service team. He is active with DEI initiatives and is the co-chair the Boston chapter of BNY Mellon’s multicultural employee network. He started his career in high-net-worth educational philanthropy. In a volunteer-capacity, Terry led the Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee non-profit for five years where he directed two Mass Humanities grants for students at underserved schools. He holds a B.A. from Cornell University and MSc from the London School of Economics.

Stephen has been spearheading the Fellowship program and coordinating activities with Fellows and Partners since 2023. He has been an active member of the NEIII community since 2018 and joined the 2020 and 2021 cohorts. Originally from Jamaica, Stephen has over 10 years of experience in corporate finance, asset management, and treasury roles in the USA. After pursuing a master’s in sustainable development at Harvard University, he worked with impact investing startups in Boston and Jamaica. Stephen has also managed sustainable finance trainings for global networks like oikos International, the Institute for Social Banking, CSFM, and helped develop the successful impact investing program with the New England Impact Investing Initiative, engaging over 200 participants. Stephen’s passion for sustainability and his extensive network in impact investing will help shape our Fellowship’s offerings.

Brian Waldner is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Financial Planner. He has extensive experience developing and implementing investment strategy as a fund manager and Advisor. Brian brings expertise in synthesizing complex financial situations through a deep understanding of global capital markets, investments, and strategic business planning.

Stefan Pagacik is a serial entrepreneur and corporate executive creating innovative consumer and Business-to-Business software. During the past five years, he has developed two impact investment technology platforms for retail and institutional investors seeking improved portfolio impact performance. He also co-founded and led the investment committee for Bay Angels.

Suraj Kripalani is the co-founder of BonBillo, a social impact incubator helping entrepreneurs and university students launch startups contributing towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He also serves as a mentor at Startupbootcamp Afritech, a leading accelerator program focused on high-growth technology startups in the African continent. From 2015 to 2017, Suraj guided management teams of Indian businesses with total revenues exceeding $400 million to execute transformation plans to deliver a material improvement in performance. His passion for social ventures led him to help launch the Nalanda Education Technology Program, a blended-learning program using an offline version of Khan Academy in low-income Indian schools, in 2013. The non-profit program has since grown across 3 Indian cities, and shown a positive impact on students’ learning outcomes and engagement levels. Suraj began his career at BlackRock in 2004 and held several roles in fixed income risk and portfolio management over 8 years in New York and London. Suraj holds an M.S. in Financial Engineering from Columbia University, a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University and attended MIT’s Entrepreneurship Development Program in 2017.

Ani is currently a Project Engineer at Renew Energy Partners, LLC. He has received his Master’s Degree in Energy Systems from Northeastern University, where he worked as an Investment Associate Co-op at Greentown Labs, served as President of the Energy System Society at NEU, and received the Outstanding Student Leadership Award two years in a row. Ani is passionate about fighting climate change through sound engineering, inclusive policy-making, and wise financial decision-making. He looks to exhaust his past and current professional and personal experience in driving NEIII's efforts forward.

Bill Tomlinson is a Syndication Analyst with CREA, LLC, a real estate investment syndication firm that specializes in low-income housing tax credit investments. Bill is a 2016 graduate of the Northeastern University D'Amore-McKim School of Business undergraduate program, concentrating in Entrepreneurship and New Venture Management, with a passion for the expansion of impact investing and public-private community development partnerships.

For more than 30 years, Carl has provided legal assistance to microfinance institutions and assisted public charities, foundations, social enterprises and entrepreneurs, impact investment venture capital funds and other impact investors. He co-chairs the Morgan Lewis ESG and Sustainability Initiative, which is a cross office and interdisciplinary group of Morgan Lewis lawyers engaged in ESG advisory and impact investment work for public and private companies and investment funds. He is a founding member of the Impact Investment Lawyers Legal Working Group, which holds annual conferences. Carl is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan Law School and New York Law School International Transaction Clinics (ITCs) focusing on impact investment. In conjunction with the Michigan Law School ITC, he represented Habitat for Humanity International in establishing MicroBuild, a $100 million dollar fund that expands housing microfinance lending and helps thousands of low-income families globally. The fund received the Overseas Private Investment Corporation’s (OPIC’s) 2016 Access to Finance Award and recognition by the Financial Times for Social Innovation. He serves on the Advisory Boards of the Michigan Social Venture Fund and the NU Impact Fund.

Claire B. Katt moved back to Boston recently after 7 years in Washington, D.C. where she held a series of roles in both public and private sectors—most recently administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance projects in Latin America and the Caribbean for the US government. Currently, she works at Management Systems for Health, a global nonprofit that works with governments, civil society, the private sector, and health care workers to improve health systems. Claire graduated from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service with an M.A., and from Wellesley College with a B.A. in Latin American Studies.

Cristina is an MBA candidate in MIT's Sloan School of Management. Prior to pursuing her MBA, Cristina spent 2.5 years with Root Capital, an agricultural impact investor, and 3.5 years in financial services regulation and consulting.

Darby Hobbs, Author, Educator, and Motivational Speaker. www.darbyhobbs.com Her passion is in creating positive change, combined with the belief that businesses exist for both profit and purpose, and that the financial system and associated value drivers are both significant challenges and opportunities to unlock. She emphasizes building networks, fostering community, and developing materials and curriculum to help individuals align their hearts, minds, and wallets to make the world a better place. After a distinguished career in the financial services and investment industries, which included founding her own publishing and conference firm for the mutual fund industry, Darby developed and taught courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing at Boston University and Bridgewater State University. She has served on numerous advisory boards, social impact competitions for graduates, and co-founded the Boston chapter of Conscious Capitalism, where she was President for two years. Darby has led various impact-focused educational programs and mentored with Net Impact, Ashoka, NEIII, MIT, Boston University, Brandeis University, and Turner MIINT.

Deborah Frieze is founder and president of the Boston Impact Initiative, an impact investing fund working to close the racial wealth divide in Eastern Massachusetts. The fund takes an integrated capital approach, combining investing, lending and giving to build a resilient and inclusive local economy. Deborah is co-author (with Margaret Wheatley) of Walk Out Walk On, an award-winning book that profiles pioneering leaders who walked out of organizations failing to contribute to the common good—and walked on to build resilient communities. She is also founder of the Old Oak Dojo, an urban learning center in Boston, MA.

Faina Rozental-Behrer serves as an Associate Portfolio Manager and Senior Research Analyst for Eventide. She is primarily responsible for evaluating and monitoring new and existing investment opportunities in the portfolios. Prior to joining Eventide in 2019, she worked at Goldman Sachs and the MIT Office of Sustainability during her time at MIT. Prior to MIT, she managed social due diligence at Root Capital, an agricultural impact investor, and earlier was responsible for OECD research sales in North America. Ms. Rozental-Behrer has an MBA with certificates in finance and sustainability from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A./M.A. in Economics from Boston University.

Fernando Morales is Vice President of Impact Measurement & Management at Builders Vision, an impact platform deploying flexible capital to accelerate innovation in the Oceans, Food and Agriculture, and Energy sectors. He has extensive experience in impact management, having worked with global funds providing impact private equity and debt across sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and Eastern Europe. Previously, he led IMM and ESG management at SEAF, a global nonprofit private equity impact manager, and provided impact and ESG consulting for Mercy Corps Ventures and Pomona Impact. Fernando has also collaborated with development finance institutions, multilateral banks, foundations, and private investors to guide pre- and post-investment impact strategies. Originally from Honduras, he is passionate about leveraging investments to drive social and environmental change.

Greg Piccirillo is an Analyst at SCS Financial, a wealth and investment firm headquartered in Boston, MA. Greg graduated from Bowdoin College in 2017, with a major in Economics and a minor in Government & Legal Studies. During his time at Bowdoin, Greg worked at the Investments Office and interned at Jefferies as an investment banking summer analyst. He is passionate about investing and ways in which individuals can leverage their expertise in the capital markets to engage in socially responsible initiatives.

Laurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and President of Impact Entrepreneur, a public benefit corporation and impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs, investors and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and publishes Impact Entrepreneur Magazine. For over 30 years, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability, social enterprise, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization, Orion Society, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank, the Triad Institute, and Hotfrog, a Founding B Corporation, GIIRS Pioneer Company, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact, and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author of the textbook from World Scientific, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His major new work, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy, will be published by Berrett-Koehler in 2026 and distributed globally by Penguin Random House.

Lisa is the Director of Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement at Trillium Asset Management and has been a long time supporter of the program. Trillium has also been a fiscal supporter helping us explore how the publicly traded have a role in creating impact. Through tools like Shareholder Advocacy we'll have Lisa share about her work to lead engagements and dialogues with portfolio firms on human rights, sustainable supply chains, setting science-based emission targets, increasing racial diversity, and other topical issues for major action at some of the largest global companies. Where our money is invested is one part of impact investing that I hope you'll walk away from this understanding which creates change in many ways. Besides this interesting exploration it will be a chance to connect with Lisa who is a powerhouse in space.

Ryan (he/him/his) is the Executive Vice President & General Counsel of Greentown Labs, North America's largest cleantech incubator with locations in Somerville, MA and Houston, TX. Prior to joining Greentown Labs, Ryan served as the Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel of Sunwealth, a solar investment firm committed to simplifying the process of impact investment. Ryan also served on the executive team of Blu Homes, a venture-backed, pre-frabricated home builder, and has advised numerous early-stage clean technology companies over the past decade. Ryan started his career practicing commercial real estate law in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ryan holds graduate degrees in law from Wake Forest University School of Law and in design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a bachelor of arts from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Steve Mark, CFA, CAP® serves as Board Chair of MicroLoan Foundation USA, the US arm of MicroLoan Foundation. He is also Head of Strategic Accounts at Fidelity Charitable, the nation’s leading Donor Advised Fund. Steve is experienced in non-profit board leadership, supporting SDG goals including reducing poverty, creating gender equality, and creating decent work and employment. He is focused on providing financial literacy training, digital solutions, and microlending to female entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa. As an accomplished relationship management, distribution, and non-profit leader, Steve has extensive experience supporting philanthropy strategies for wealth advisory, accounting, law, and private capital firms and their clients. Steve is a graduate of Union College, Schenectady, NY, and has an MBA from Boston University. He lives in the Boston area and enjoys music, skiing, and travel.

Will Wu is an ESG and sustainable finance professional currently working as an Associate at Whistle Stop Capital, where he advises investors on corporate accountability, sustainability strategies, and impact investing. He is also one of the organizers for the Scholars of Finance Impact Finance Program, where he co-develops educational resources on ESG investing and sustainable finance. Will is passionate about bridging finance and impact to drive systemic change in capital markets.

We want to honor the support and encouragement of Andrea McGrath. Andrea's contributions have included being a speaker, organizer, advisor, and connector within our community. Andrea helped to organize our recent conference at the Boston Fed. Andrea will be missed. Andrea is a strategic and entrepreneurial leader with deep, cross-sector experience helping individuals and organizations, ranging from startups to the Fortune 500, to catalyze ideas into action. As founder of amplified impact, a strategic advisory and research firm, she has worked with trailblazers and pioneers in the fields of social enterprise, civic innovation, entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy and impact investing over the past decade. Andrea’s career is defined by her curiosity to solve problems that matter and her instinctive ability to foster connections among ideas, people and organizations for improved results. Prior to launching amplified impact, Andrea was a strategist with a Fortune 500 financial services organization, research director for a Wall Street executive search and advisory firm, and fundraiser with a national health organization. She earned her M.P.A. in Leadership and Social Change at the Harvard Kennedy School, M.B.A. in Management and Finance at the University of Connecticut, and B.A. in Political Science at Boston College.