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.