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 Maria Elia is an entrepreneur, field-builder, and operations guru with 25 years of leadership experience at mission-driven institutions and impact-oriented funds. She currently serves as Managing Director of Impact Capital Lab at Boston Impact Initiative (BII). In 2016, Lubna founded the New England Impact Investing Initiative (NEIII), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that strives to democratize access to impact investing education and build a thriving and diverse impact investing industry in New England and beyond. Lubna has held a variety of leadership roles at nonprofits advancing economic and social justice. Before joining BII, she served as Chief Administrative Officer at BlueHub Capital, a national CDFI. Previously, she served as Chief Operating Officer at Compass Working Capital, an organization that promotes asset building for families with low incomes. At Root Capital, an international lender that transforms rural communities, she held a variety of roles, including fundraising, legal resource coordination, GRC (governance, risk management & compliance), and human resources. Prior to that, she led resource development at Design that Matters, a design-for-development firm, and served as director of development at Teach for America-Houston (TFA), a national teacher corps aimed at strengthening education in public schools. While at TFA, Lubna founded a diocesan-wide Catholic young adult program, Bayou Awakening, and as a result of that effort, she became the first lay Campus Minister in the diocese and served at the University of Houston Catholic Newman Center, where she taught a prize-winning course on economic justice based on learnings from the coffee crisis. Lubna is fluent in Spanish, has an M.A. in international relations from Boston University, and a B.A. in humanities honors from the University of Texas at Austin, where she specialized in economic development in Latin America. She serves on the Board of Directors of Prime Coalition and NEIII.

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.

Brian Waldner is a Senior Investment Strategist at EP Wealth Advisors and a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. In this capacity, he contributes to the development of strategic asset allocation policy, capital market assumptions, portfolio construction standards, and manager oversight frameworks across public and private markets. His work supports disciplined governance, prudent risk management, and long-term capital management objectives. Mr. Waldner has more than 25 years of experience in institutional investment management and consulting. His background spans advisory work with pensions, endowments, foundations, and family offices, as well as direct portfolio management responsibilities in fixed income and multi asset strategies. He has led manager due diligence programs, structured alternative investment allocations, and overseen implementation across global markets with an emphasis on liquidity management, interest rate risk, and portfolio level risk budgeting. He has expertise in evaluating private and less liquid strategies, assessing alignment of interests, operational robustness, and risk adjusted return expectations within diversified portfolios. His perspective reflects experience on both the allocator and portfolio management sides of the investment process, informing a pragmatic approach to governance and oversight. Mr. Waldner earned a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese Language and Literature and Political Economics from the University of Massachusetts. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Certified Financial Planner professional. In addition to his professional responsibilities, he supports nonprofit organizations through pro bono investment and financial advisory work and maintains a strong interest in economic development initiatives.

Stefan Pagacik’s career has spanned several industries and roles, most recently as the CEO and co-founder of AMPRESTA, a climate risk financial intelligence firm focusing on pricing climate risk for real estate, insurance, and transportation. Before AMPRESTA, Stefan served as a Senior Advisor/US Operations for World Wide Generation, a SaaS platform for sustainability reporting benchmarked against the UN SDGs. Previously, he built two impact-themed cloud and mobile platforms (RegAnalytics and my4.com) for institutional and retail investors seeking to align their values with market-rate returns to create sustainability-themed portfolios. As part of an economic development planning process, Stefan developed a strategic plan for a marine science accelerator in Southeastern Massachusetts (the Regional Technology Development Center of Cape Cod) that commercialized scientific developments in partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the Marine Biological Laboratory. The plan secured $600,000 in funding. Stefan’s technology background includes marketing and business development roles with the Company of Science and Art (later acquired by Adobe) and Apple Computers. His consulting background started as an Information Architect for Lavastorm, where he built information portals for internal practice groups to support new business development. Stefan holds a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from Suffolk University. He recently accepted a role as a contributing journalist at Impact Entrepreneur.

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.

Aaron is an Investment Banking Analyst at Nomura Greentech, where he advises clients across the energy transition, environmental services, and energy infrastructure sectors on mergers and acquisitions and strategic financing transactions. Previously, he was an Impact Investing Intern at Britebound (f.k.a American Student Assistance), evaluating both direct investments and venture funds focused on education technology and workforce development. His experience spans investment banking, impact investing, and innovative finance, with a common focus on using capital to address complex social and environmental challenges. Aaron graduated from UCLA with a degree in Business Economics. He is passionate about growing the impact investing ecosystem by expanding education for students and young professionals, strengthening connections between practitioners and emerging talent, and demonstrating how rigorous financial investing can generate meaningful, measurable societal outcomes. He hopes to contribute to systems-level change to help advance the field.

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.

Anna-Maria is an early-career professional with international experience, combining expertise in sustainability, leadership, and stakeholder engagement. She previously supported the Harvard Extension School Global Development Practice Student Society by helping organize sustainability-focused events that fostered learning, collaboration, and community engagement. She has also gained experience in startup deal sourcing and market research, conducting due diligence on investment opportunities to inform strategic investment decisions.

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 Katt is a mission-driven professional with over a decade of experience in strategic partnerships and humanitarian aid. She is passionate about sharing knowledge and supporting others in tackling difficult problems to realize their full potential. Before joining Tufts University Corporate and Foundation Relations, Claire led proposal development for large-scale USAID health initiatives at Abt Global. She also held key roles at Management Sciences for Health and Chemonics, where she contributed to securing increased funding. Earlier in her career, she served as a Desk Officer at USAID, managing U.S. government programs for Jamaica and the Eastern and Southern Caribbean. Claire holds a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and is PMP certified.

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. Cristina now works for Impossible Foods.

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 a Board Member of Principles for Peace and Co-Director of the Palestinian Impact Initiative, an impact investing fund that seeks to be a source economic stabilization and recovery. She is co-founder of the Boston Impact Initiative, an impact investing fund working to close the racial wealth divide in New England and co-founder of Unlock Ownership, a pooled multi-donor impact investing fund focused on building the ownership economy. She has taught Community-Based Investing around the world, including at Tufts University, where she helped design and launch a certificate program in Impact and Sustainable Investing. Ms. Frieze is co-author (with Margaret Wheatley) of Walk Out Walk On, an award-winning book that profiles pioneering leaders building resilient communities. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Faina Rozental-Behrer serves as 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 currently a second-year MBA student at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to business school, Greg was a Senior Associate at HarbourVest Partners, a private equity fund-of-funds, where he conducted investment diligence on buyout, venture capital, and growth equity funds. Before joining HarbourVest, he was an Associate at SCS Financial, a multi-family office, where he focused on private equity, credit, and real assets funds and co-investments. 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.

Joanna is the Senior Manager of the Alumni Launch Lab at the Harvard Innovation Labs, where she leads programs supporting alumni innovators from all 13 Harvard schools. She is also a grant writer for youth programs at a local chapter of a global nonprofit. She began her career working in youth development and outdoor education at a U.S. nonprofit organization. Her graduate studies opened doors to international work with youth entrepreneurs in coffee farming communities across Latin American and East Africa. After moving to the Boston area 6 years ago, Joanna worked at a national business accelerator, scaling programs to equip early-stage entrepreneurs with essential skills and networks. Joanna earned her B.A. in Biology/Ecology from the University of Montana. She then pursued an MBA from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and a Masters in Environmental Management from Duke University.

Kate Azar is Vice President and Director of Nonprofit Strategy for PNC Institutional Asset Management, where she advises nonprofit clients on finance and business strategy and leads her team's thought-leadership efforts. Kate has spent 20 years working on mission-driven initiatives across a range of sectors, including serving as CEO of an education foundation and working with the American Red Cross' Office of ESG and Sustainability, Disney, ESPN, and a number of high-profile individuals and families. Kate holds a CFA Institute Investment Foundations certificate and is a College of Financial Planning Chartered Sustainable, Responsible and Impact Investing Counselor; In 2025, she participated in the NEIII Fellowship. She volunteers as a mentor to impact entrepreneurs through Village Capital and Coralus, and has served as a judge for several ESG and impact-investing competitions at The Wharton School and the Drucker School of Management.

Kelvin Enumah is the Chief Impact Architect and Managing Director of Volint, an accompaniment firm bridging the gap between organizational mission and individual purpose. A systems thinker and former NEIII Impact Investing Fellow, Kelvin channels over 23,000 hours of cross-sector experience across 25+ organizations into designing sustainable, human-centric solutions. He holds an engineering background and an M.Sc. in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, a combination that informs his diverse governance portfolio: he serves as Board Chair of the Formatio Family Foundation, Development Director at the Wetland Cultural and Education Foundation, a Board Member of the Educational Co-operations Society, and a committee member of the Energy Institute Nigeria. Driven by a passion for structural social development, Kelvin also directs The Marriage School and serves as a Founding Trustee of the IIT Alumni Association, focusing his career on synthesizing social impact, technical education, and innovative finance.

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; audio book by Ascent Audio.

Lisa Hayles is a senior capital stewardship and responsible investment leader with more than 20 years of experience advising institutional investors on sustainable investment strategy, leading shareholder advocacy campaigns, and supporting investor collaboration around social and environmental issues. She has held senior roles at asset managers Trillium Asset Management and Boston Common Asset Management, where she planned and led shareholder engagement campaigns on board diversity, supply chain labor practices, and science-based target setting for GHG reductions. Lisa is the co-founder of the Racial Justice Investing Coalition and a frequent speaker and author connecting corporate governance, climate risk, and capital markets strategy to racial and economic justice. Today, Lisa works as an independent consultant, advising institutional investors and mission-driven organizations on proxy voting policy, stewardship governance, and investor coalition strategy. In addition to serving on the Advisory Board of the New England Impact Investing Initiative, Lisa serves on the boards of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility and the Boston Impact Initiative. She holds an MSc in International Development and Rural Planning from the University of Guelph and a BA in Political Science and History from the University of Toronto.

Noba is a sustainable finance professional with over 14 years of experience working at the intersection of banking, infrastructure development, and ESG transformation. Her career has evolved from financing critical energy and infrastructure projects across Africa to advising corporations, financial institutions, and investors on embedding sustainability into strategy, governance, and investment decision-making in Europe. During her time in investment banking, she led and supported the financing of projects totalling more than USD $900 million in debt across renewable energy, infrastructure, transmission, and public-private partnerships. Her work helped mobilize capital toward projects that addressed critical infrastructure gaps while deepening her understanding of how investment decisions can shape long-term economic development outcomes. This experience led her to transition into sustainable finance and ESG advisory, where she now helps organizations align financial performance with long-term environmental and social impact. She has advised financial institutions, impact investors, and multinational companies on ESG integration, sustainable finance regulations, and strategy development. She holds an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University with a certificate in Sustainable Investing and is an New England Impact Investing Initiative Impact Investing Fellow. She brings to the NEIII Advisory Board a unique perspective shaped by both sides of capital allocation, first as an investment banker financing infrastructure growth, and now as a sustainability advisor helping organizations ensure that capital drives resilient, equitable, and long-term impact.

Noragh Devlin is an early-stage ecosystem developer with experience across all sides of the startup landscape—working in startups directly, with investors, and within accelerators. She is currently the Director of LaunchVT, Vermont's largest start-up accelerator. Previously, she served as chief of staff Beacon Climate Innovations, where she focused on innovative growth strategy and fundraising. Devlin also developed and delivered impact-focused finance programming for Village Capital and was a fellow with Capital Innovation Lab, where she provided capital strategy and investment readiness coaching for Vermont-based entrepreneurs. She also has expertise in alternative ownership structures, with experience developing investment vehicles focused on employee and steward ownership. A graduate of the Sustainable Innovation MBA from the University of Vermont, Devlin was named the Robert M. Phillips Fellow for Vermont Entrepreneurial Equity. Prior to her MBA, she worked at Centerbridge Partners in New York City and was a professional opera singer.

Onyka Barrett is a dynamic leader with extensive experience blending business strategy and corporate responsibility. She specializes in corporate philanthropy, sustainability, environment, social, governance (ESG) adoption, and incorporation into governance processes. As CEO of Pinnacle Impact International and a Certified Climate Risk Professional, she guides organisations in integrating these principles into core business strategy, governance & risk management. Ms. Barrett has played a pivotal role in championing social equity and sustainable development across the Caribbean region. She currently serves at the Bureau of Standards, Jamaica, through the ISO Environmental Management National Mirror Committee and the Jamaica Manufacturers' & Exporters Association's Environment & Research Committee. She is a proud Fellow of the New England Impact Investing Initiative (USA) and the Institute for Social Banking (The Netherlands).

Roselle oversees investment operations at Common Future, managing fund administration, investor onboarding, lending compliance, and borrower experience across the Community Credit Lab portfolio. Before Common Future, she was Finance and Operations Manager at Community Credit Lab through its acquisition. Roselle began her career in impact investment at Root Capital developing servicing, monitoring and risk management systems for an international portfolio of agricultural businesses. She has held different finance and investment roles involving financial planning, budgeting and due diligence for for-profit and non-profit organizations. She holds a BA in Economics and International Relations from Boston University and a Master of International Business from The Fletcher School at Tufts University.

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.

In loving memory of Andrea McGrath, we honor her profound support and the connections she kindled within our community. Andrea was a founding member of NEIII, served on our Steering Committee and later on our Advisory Committee. She was 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, Andrea worked with trailblazers and pioneers in the fields of social enterprise, civic innovation, entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy and impact investing. 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. Andrea had an infectious energy and a visionary mind that never ceased to connect the dots and people around her. She touched the lives of everyone she encountered. Andrea will continue to inspire us all, and her memory kindles the fire in our souls to carry on the work in her honor.