US Economy

We need to reconsider dated stereotypes regarding which communities are leading the environmental movement.

RE$ET's third plenary focuses on resetting America's role in the world.

We are told that the fundamentals of the US economy are strong. So why are so many individuals and communities left behind?

Two pressing economic challenges facing the next adminis

 Bruce Schlein, Director of Impact Investing and Resource Efficiency Finance at Citi was joined by Antwanye Ford, President and CEO, Enlightened, Inc, to discuss how business leaders and fund managers can leverage their real and social capital to effect change on complex society-wide issues where public policy responses are not sufficient.

Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, Assistant Dean for Civic Engagement and Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, was joined by Alejandra Castillo, CEO of the YWCA.

Latinos are the future of America and inextricably tied to the economic recovery from the pandemic.

Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers says the recovery includes three stages: collapse, bounce-back, and slog. We’ve experienced collapse and bounce-back already. “Now we’re now headed for a slog,” he says.

Mark Wilson of Chime Solutions was joined by Beverly Norman-Cooper, Chief Strategist at Reimagining Supply Chain Diversity. Both leaders are partnering to bring supplier diversity and the Chime model to Baltimore City, MD.