Isaac Silk, Author at ImpactAlpha

About

Isaac is an editor, producer and composer. He produces ImpactAlpha's podcasts and Agents of Impact calls, and works with the editorial team to publish The Brief, Impact Voice and sponsored content. He attended Wesleyan University where he received the Leavell Memorial Prize for undergraduate scholarship in their highly regarded music department, where he studied ethnomusicology, sound design, and composition. He has produced radio pieces for KQED and KALW in the San Francisco Bay Area. He lives in Hartford, CT with his wife and their cattle dog/chihuahua mix.

This Week in Impact | July 17, 2026

India as a hotbed of cool tech + Secondaries, impact-style

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Generation Investment Management seeks to stamp AI with ...

Return on Inclusion | July 13, 2026

The economic case for investing in refugee entrepreneurs (podcast)

Advocacy has fallen short in changing the political climate around refugees and migrants, who have been castigated as a burden on economies. Perhaps ...

This Week in Impact | July 10, 2026

Generation Investment Management on AI’s inconvenient truths + Closing the LatAm gender gap

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Generation Investment Management seeks to stamp AI with ...

This Week in Impact | July 3, 2026

Founding principles for impact investors on the USA’s 250th birthday

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Four Agents of Impact offer thoughts on the ...

LP / GP | June 30, 2026

Rey Ramsey on moving from false choices to authentic leadership on AI and impact investing (podcast)

Rey Ramsey has spent his career refusing the options he’s been handed. Instead, he’s expanded the range of available choices, in housing, technology, ...

This Week in Impact | June 26, 2026

Zambia looks to small businesses as pathway to inclusive growth + IPOs set to unlock billions in liquidity for impact LPs

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: How a new playbook for shared prosperity is ...

This Week in Impact | June 19, 2026

The private equity buzz at SuperReturn in Berlin + Sharing AI power along with wealth

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese. Up this week: At SuperReturn in Berlin, asset-light is out, HALO ...

Agents of Impact Podcast | June 16, 2026

Archipelago Ventures brings a collective approach to backing circular materials

Plastics are so 1950s. “Everyone’s coming to the idea that we need to rethink the traditional polymer and plastic economy, which developed in ...

This Week in Impact | June 12, 2026

Battery storage makes Europe’s cheap renewable power more valuable + The growth opportunity behind S2G’s $1 billion raise

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Why battery makers and investors are pivoting from ...

This Week in Impact | June 5, 2026

Taking stock of Alterra’s impact on emerging market climate finance + Going down-market to uplift women

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Is Altérra’s ambitious effort to mobilize climate finance ...

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