How are we using our dollars to create the changes we want to see in the world?

Power Station

It is a rare book that enlightens readers about how our capital markets work and how to invest in them to build wealth in ways that prioritize economic opportunity, environmental sustainability and racial equity. The Social Justice Investor, the first guide for anyone who wants to better understand the financial marketplace, is that book. In this episode of Power Station, I speak to its author, Andrea Longton CFA, who has raised over $1billion for social justice investment in the United States alone. The Social Justice Investor is a plain-language roadmap for engaging our financial advisor, organizational HR manager or DIY financial platform in helping us advance our values-driven investment aspirations. It connects us to remarkable leaders in the field who invest in shared ownership enterprises and reject investment in companies that profit from prison labor in their supply chains. Andrea is motivated in part by having worked in financial markets abroad and upon returning home, realizing that conditions in her grandmother’s Appalachian home town were in some ways worse than in countries where she was driving capital. And yes, there is industry and political backlash to these changing expectations. Listen!