Bulbul Gupta

President and CEO of Pacific Community Ventures Bulbul Gupta, MPP, is President & CEO of Pacific Community Ventures, serves as a Lecturer in Impact Investing at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and in 2021 was named one of the Most Influential Women in the Bay Area by the SF Business Times. She recently served as an outside policy advisor to the Biden-Harris campaign on small business, racial equity, and good job creation; and was an Entrepreneurship Policy Advisor to the Clinton Campaign in 2016. Bulbul formerly led Entrepreneurship & Impact Investing at the Clinton Global Initiative, and helped launch the White House National Advisory Board on Impact Investing in 2013.

Marcus Haymon

Partner at and Co-Lead of the Justice, Equity and Economic Mobility Practice Marcus is Partner at Dalberg and he co-leads the firm’s justice, equity, and economic mobility practice. He supports clients to advance racial equity, boost economic mobility, and build and shift power for communities of color. Marcus has a rich history in advocacy work, including advising the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to identify policy levers to support Black and Latinx owned small businesses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Marcus has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a BA from Yale University and lives in New York City.

Denise Hearn

Co-Lead of the Access to Markets Initiative and Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project Denise Hearn is a Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project where she co-leads the Access to Markets initiative. She is co-author of the Myth of Capitalism, and writes the Embodied Economics blog. Denise is the Advisory Board Chair of the Predistribution Initiative.

Kimber Lanning

CEO of Local First AZ Kimber Lanning is an entrepreneur and community development specialist who works to cultivate strong self-reliant communities that enable a higher quality of life for people across Arizona. She is the founder and CEO of Local First Arizona, an organization focused on creating a diverse and inclusive Arizona economy by elevating inequities and advancing work related to food security, diversified land ownership, access to capital, environmental resilience, and enterprise development in both rural and urban communities.

Xiomara Pena

VP of Engagement at Small Business Majority Xiomara Peña drives Small Business Majority’s external engagement efforts toward a more inclusive and equitable economy that directly benefits entrepreneurs in underserved communities. Prior to joining Small Business Majority, Xiomara piloted business retention programs for the city of Los Angeles and programs geared toward empowering at-risk youth. She also has extensive experience as a business owner, community organizer, and campaign manager.

Solana Rice

Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Liberation in a Generation Solana is a dedicated advocate aiming to shape the most vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable economy this country has yet to see. Prior to starting Liberation in a Generation, Solana was director of state & local policy at Prosperity Now where, under her leadership, she built strong advocacy partnerships with organizations in the field and advanced dozens of policies in nearly half the states in the nation. Prior to joining Prosperity Now, Solana served as a director for financial security initiatives at PolicyLink. Solana has a Master’s in city planning from MIT, where she researched the integration of individual development accounts into community development services. She holds a B.A. in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis. Solana is also a Soros Equality Fellow.

Natalie Self

SVP for Equitable Economic Impact at Cortex Innovation Community Natalie Self, MSW, SHRM-CP is the Senior Vice President of Equitable Economic Impact at the Cortex Innovation Community in St. Louis, Missouri. Natalie’s previous roles include Executive Director of STEMSTL, a regional coalition that builds more clear, rigorous and equitable STEM learning; Program Officer in Entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where she managed the Inclusion Open grant portfolio, Program Manager at BioSTL, where she was responsible for the operations and evaluation of the BioSTL Inclusion Initiative. Natalie is also the founder of the St. Louis Equity in Entrepreneurship Collective.

Perry Teicher

Impact Finance Counsel and Lead of Impact Finance and Investment at Orrick Perry leads Orrick's global Impact Finance & Investment practice, advising impact-oriented clients globally and serves as a leader of Orrick's ESG initiatives. Perry represents and advises entrepreneurs, companies, fund sponsors, family offices, tax-exempt organizations, and other asset owners, integrating social, environmental, and financial outcomes into a comprehensive strategy. Perry also serves as co-chair of the NYU Law Grunin Center/Impact Investing Legal Working Group’s annual conference. A native of the Detroit area and University of Michigan graduate, Perry remains committed to the Detroit area, supporting Detroit expat initiatives.