Agents of Impact
INHS Asvini staff pay tribute to all those involved in the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai, India | Photo credit: Manoej Paateel
Agents of Impact | May 7, 2021
India’s citizen-responders
ImpactAlpha, May 7 – The desperate citizen response to India’s COVID catastrophe is a poor substitute for the full-scale mobilization that might have been …
Alex Flachsbart, Opportunity Alabama
Agents of Impact | April 30, 2021
Alex Flachsbart, Opportunity Alabama
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 30 – If you build it, they will come. That was the instinct of Flachsbart, an economic development lawyer in Birmingham, when …
Sustainable Investing Challenge winners from Oxford University (bee left: Noah Law, bee right: Emile Radyte, human left: Annabella Wainer, human right: Dawn Musil)
Agents of Impact | April 16, 2021
Students of impact
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 16 – Women make up eight of nine graduate students on the winning teams at last week’s Turner MIINT competition and Kellogg-Morgan …
Kathryn Finney of Genius Guild | Photo credit: kathrynfinney.com
Agents of Impact | April 9, 2021
Kathryn Finney, Genius Guild
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 9 – The entrepreneur and investor’s answer to systemic economic exclusion of Black, Indigenous and other people of color: Build an ecosystem …
ChargerHelp's Evette Ellis and Kameale Terry
Agents of Impact | April 2, 2021
Evette Ellis and Kameale Terry, ChargerHelp
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 2 – The co-founders of South Los Angeles-based electric-vehicle charging repair startup ChargerHelp could be on a poster for the Biden administration’s …
Agents of Impact | March 26, 2021
Arlan Hamilton, Backstage Capital
ImpactAlpha, March 26 – Venture capitalists love to invest in disruption. Arlan Hamitlon is disrupting venture capital. She created Backstage Capital in 2015 …
Brian Deese, National Economic Council
Agents of Impact | March 12, 2021
Brian Deese, National Economic Council
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 12 – At 31, Brian Deese helped plan and execute then-President Obama’s auto industry bailout. As the White House’s top climate official …
Kim Folsom of Founders First
Agents of Impact | March 5, 2021
Kim Folsom, Founders First
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 5 – Seven-time entrepreneur-turned-investor Kim Folsom is seeking to bridge a massive gap: financing for the millions of U.S. businesses that don’t …
Agents of Impact | February 26, 2021
Donnel Baird, BlocPower
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 26 – There was no heat in the building in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where Baird grew up, so he and his sister …
Macro's Charles King | Image credit: Macro
Agents of Impact | February 19, 2021
Charles King, Macro
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 19 – The former Hollywood super agent spotted a disconnect. Those green-lighting movies and TV didn’t represent the diverse audiences consuming them. …
Agents of Impact | February 12, 2021
Bill Bynum, Hope
Goldman Sachs’ commitment this week of $130 million in credit to Jackson, Miss.-based Hope was the latest, and one of the largest, shows …
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | Photo credit: GAVI
Agents of Impact | February 5, 2021
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, development economist
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 5 – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has a warning for nations prioritizing self-interest in their pandemic responses: “No one in the world can be …
Agents of Impact | January 29, 2021
Bill Winters, Standard Chartered
If putting a price on carbon is the key to getting to net-zero, Bill Winters – with an assist from Mark Carney – …
Agents of Impact | January 22, 2021
Amanda Gorman, poet
In a star-studded inauguration featuring Lady Gaga and J-Lo, the 22-year old poet stole the spotlight at president Joe Biden’s inauguration. Accolades poured …
Agents of Impact | January 15, 2021
Georgia’s organizers
“Welcome to the New Georgia,” proclaimed Senator-elect Raphael Warnock. “It is more diverse, and it’s more inclusive. And it readily embraces the future.” …