Capital for Good Podcast

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl: The Heart of a Stranger
Angela Buchdahl — the senior rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City, the first woman to lead the congregation in its 185-year history, and the author of a new best-selling memoir, Heart of a Stranger — speaks on identity, faith, and the universal search for belonging.

Marla Blow, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation: Transformation and Renewal
Marla Blow is the president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, the leading philanthropy focused on social entrepreneurship and innovation around the world.

Anthony W. Marx, President and CEO, The New York Public Library: Master Class in Transformative Leadership
Anthony W. Marx is the president and CEO of the New York Public Library, the nation’s largest library system and the world’s preeminent public research library. Over fifteen years, Marx has reimagined this storied institution, building on his transformative leadership in higher education as president of Amherst College. A distinguished scholar and political scientist, Marx’s education — in the power of education — was forged by his experience in South Africa in the 1980s.

John Witt and The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
John Witt is the Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School, one of the country's most distinguished legal historians, and author of the new book The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.

Deven Parekh, Insight Partners: Software, Startups, and Scale-ups in the Age of AI
Deven Parekh is a renowned technology investor, civic leader, and managing director of Insight Partners, the global software investment firm.

Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO, Ariel Investments: Everything Is Possible
Mellody Hobson — co-CEO of Ariel Investments, reflects on leadership, financial literacy, expanding economic opportunity — and the power of human potential.

Introducing Capital for Good Season Five 
This season, you'll hear from an extraordinary line-up of business and civic leaders about their visions, plans, and hard work to build a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable society. Through in-depth and candid conversations, we explore solutions to some of our most urgent challenges.

Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa: We Need to Take Responsibility for the World We Want
Maria Ressa — the globally celebrated free speech champion, journalist, entrepreneur, dissident, and winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize — discusses her work “to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”

Brad Lander, New York City Comptroller: The Virtuous Cycle of a Successful City
Brad Lander, New York City Comptroller and recent Mayoral candidate, discusses prudent and responsible investment, inclusive economic growth, and New York City’s future.

Emma Bloomberg and Murmuration: Technology, Data, Research, and the Power of Community-driven Civic Engagement
Emma Bloomberg is the founder and CEO of Murmuration, a nonprofit technology company that works with local organizations to amplify the power of civic engagement by providing the data, tools, and research necessary to build healthier and more equitable communities.

Kevin Ryan: The Godfather of NYC Tech
Kevin Ryan is one of New York’s leading internet entrepreneurs and investors, and often called the “Godfather of NYC tech."

Maria Teresa Kumar: We Market Democracy Every Single Day
Maria Teresa Kumar is a nationally celebrated social entrepreneur, civic and political operative, journalist, and commentator, and she is also co-founder and CEO of Voto Latino, the nation’s largest Latino voter registration organization.

Looking to the Horizon With Goldman Sachs's Greg Shell
Greg Shell is a seasoned investor, civic leader, and partner at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, where he leads the firm’s inclusive growth strategy.

Anna-Lisa Miller and Ownership Works: Reimagining Equity to Build Wealth for All
Anna-Lisa Miller is the executive director of Ownership Works, and a long time advocate of economic inclusion, empowerment, and mobility.

Tom Steyer: Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We’ll Win the Climate War
Tom Steyer, co-executive chair at Galvanize Climate Solutions, discusses how innovation, policy, and collective action can win the climate war.

Michael Posner, Conscience Incorporated: The Role of Business and Investment in Protecting Human Rights
Michael Posner, the Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business, is director of the school’s Center for Business and Human Rights, a long-time leader in the field, luminary thinker, advocate, former State Department Official, and the author of the new book, Conscience Incorporated.

Janno Lieber, Chairman and CEO, the New York MTA: “Never Bet Against New York"
Janno Lieber is the chairman and CEO of New York’s MTA, one of the world’s oldest, largest, and most complex public transit systems. “New York is my passion,” Lieber says, and the throughline of his career.

Introducing Capital for Good Season Four 
This season, you'll hear from an extraordinary line-up of business and civic leaders about their visions, plans, and hard work to build a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable society. Through in-depth and candid conversations, we explore solutions to some of our most urgent challenges.

Investing in Women, Investing in Our Future
Three inspiring leaders in women’s health — Erika Seth Davies, Jade Kearney, and Flory Wilson — are pioneering advances in reproductive and maternal health and are using business, investment, engagement, and advocacy as levers for social change.

Lise Strickler ’86 and Mark Gallogly ’86: Three Cairns Group, the Climate Crisis, and Climate Solutions
Lise Strickler ’86 and Mark Gallogly ’86 are the co-founders of Three Cairns Group, a mission-driven investment and philanthropic firm focused on the climate crisis.

Shaun Donovan: Home, Community, and the Affordable Housing Crisis
Shaun Donovan is one of the country’s most important leaders — and lifelong advocates — for housing, economic development, and shared prosperity.

Dr. Fei-Fei Li: The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford and the Denning Co-Director of Stanford’s Human Centered AI-Institute. Dr. Li has been called the godmother of artificial intelligence and has emerged as one of the country’s leading scientists — and humanists.

Suzanne Nossel: Dare to Speak
Suzanne Nossel is the CEO of PEN America and one of the country’s most prominent experts and voices on free speech, free expression, and human rights.

Luis Miranda: Relentless
Luis Miranda is one of New York's, and the country’s, most dynamic cross-sector leaders, with more than four decades of experience in government, business, politics and advocacy, community development, and the arts.

Sonal Shah, CEO, the Texas Tribune: Intrapreneurship — and Finding Common Ground
Sonal Shah is the the CEO of the Texas Tribune, and one of the country’s most talented and truly cross-sector leaders.

David Leonhardt: Ours Was the Shining Future 
David Leonhardt is senior writer at the New York Times, where he writes its flagship newsletter, “The Morning,” and author of the important new book, Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream.

Nick Turner, President and Director of Vera Institute of Justice: Safety, Accountability — and Justice 
Nick Turner is the president and director of the Vera Institute of Justice, where he has spearheaded the organization’s work over the last decade to end overcriminalization and mass incarceration in the United States.

Andrea Jung, President and CEO of Grameen America: Leading Women’s Economic Empowerment in the United States and Around the World 
Andrea Jung is the president and CEO of Grameen America, the fastest growing microfinance organization in the United States.

Introducing Capital for Good Season Three 
We find ourselves at a moment of great challenge – and opportunity. In this season of Capital for Good, we'll explore how the world's political, economic, and climate crises have compelled us to reimagine how leaders across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors champion social and environmental change in ways that truly advance shared prosperity and a sustainable future.

Scott Rechler, CEO and Chairman of RXR: Doing Good and Doing Well Means Doing Better 
Scott Rechler is chairman and CEO of RXR, a leading real estate owner, investor, operator, and developer committed to building socially, economically, and environmentally responsible communities.

Liz Luckett and The Social Entrepreneurs’ Fund: Impact Investing Pioneer 
Liz Luckett, ’90CC, the managing partner of The Social Entrepreneurs’ Fund, and a co-founder of Maycomb Capital, is a pioneer impact investor who has blazed the trail, and set a very high bar, for the billions of dollars and many new entrants to the field.

The Black Economic Alliance Foundation: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap – An Investment in Shared Prosperity and the Growth of the American Economy 
Samantha Tweedy, the inaugural president of the Black Economic Alliance Foundation, has spent her career building and leading transformative racial and economic justice initiatives at the intersection of the public, private, and philanthropic sectors.

FreshDirect and the New York Common Pantry: A Partnership to Nourish New Yorkers 
Stephen Grimaldi, the executive director of New York Common Pantry, and John MacDonald and Scott Crawford, the chief marketing and chief merchandising officers of FreshDirect, talk about the extraordinary partnership the two organizations forged in the height of the pandemic.

Greening Buildings, Blocks, and Cities: BlocPower and Decarbonization at Scale With Donnel Baird ’13 
Donnel Baird ’13 is the founder and CEO of BlocPower, a clean tech startup based in New York City that develops portfolios of clean energy retrofit opportunities in underserved communities and connects those opportunities to investors seeking social, environmental, and financial returns.

Athletes Unlimited: Professional Sports — and Business — Reimagined With Jonathan Soros 
Jonathan Soros is chief executive officer of JS Capital Management LLC and co-founder of Athletes Unlimited, a new model of professional sports and a reimagination of the way business can — and should — show up in the world.

Public Private Partnerships and the Future of New York City With Kathryn Wylde 
Kathryn Wylde is one of New York and the country’s preeminent leaders when it comes to robust, cross-sector partnerships. As president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City, New York’s leading business organization, Wylde has been a key liaison between the city’s public and private sectors in the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery.

Walking the Walk on Climate Change and Mission Aligned Investing With Valerie Rockefeller 
Valerie Rockefeller is one of the country’s most innovative leaders in the fight against climate change and in our transition to a low carbon economy. As chair of Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and BankFWD, she is helping to pioneer ways to channel philanthropy and the capital markets towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.

A Stake in Each Other’s Dreams and Struggles With Governor Deval Patrick 
Governor Deval Patrick is one of the country’s most talented and inspiring leaders who has blazed many trails across and between the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. We explore some of the through lines in a career that has included successful chapters in civil rights law and activism, policy and politics, and entrepreneurship and investing.

The Care Economy: Expanding Our Imagination for What Is Possible With Ai-jen Poo 
Ai-jen Poo is one of the country’s most innovative and celebrated leaders of the labor and women’s movements. The executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, she is an award-winning organizer, author, and leading voice on economic inclusion and shared prosperity.

Introducing Capital for Good Season Two 
We find ourselves at a moment of great challenge — and opportunity. In this season of Capital for Good, with host Georgia Levenson Keohane, we'll explore how the world's health, economic, racial, and climate crises have compelled us to reimagine how leaders across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors champion social and environmental change in ways that truly advance shared prosperity and a sustainable future.

Heather Higginbottom – Policy, the Private Sector, and the Promise of a More Inclusive Economy 
Heather Higginbottom is the president of the JPMorgan Chase PolicyCenter, which develops and advances sustainable, evidence-based policy solutions to drive inclusive economic growth in the United States and around the world.

Roy Swan – Courage, Capital, and the Future of Mission Investments 
Roy Swan is the director of mission investments at the Ford Foundation and a national leader in the fields of sustainable finance, impact investing, and community and economic development.

Martin Whittaker – JUST Capital: Can Companies Deliver on the Promise of Stakeholder Capitalism? 
Martin Whittaker is a leader in the field of sustainable finance, impact investing, and responsible business and founding CEO of JUST Capital, a nonprofit dedicated to aligning corporate behavior with the values of the American people.

Cheryl Dorsey – The Future of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation 
Cheryl Dorsey is a trailblazer in the social entrepreneurship movement, and the president of Echoing Green, a global nonprofit that supports emerging social entrepreneurs and invests deeply in their ideas and leadership.

Judy Samuelson – The Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in a Changing World 
Judy Samuelson — founder and executive director of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program and author of The Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in a Changing World — discusses how and why the rules of business are changing for the better.

Wes Moore – Poverty, Opportunity, and Equity: The Future of Philanthropy and Social Change 
Wes Moore — bestselling author, combat veteran, social entrepreneur, and chief executive officer of the Robin Hood Foundation — is one of the country’s leading voices on issues of economic opportunity and social and racial equity.

Dan Doctoroff – Leadership, Inclusive Growth, and the Future of New York City 
Dan Doctoroff, chairman and CEO of Sidewalk Labs, explores “crisis as catalyst,” how New York’s leaders re-imagined and rebuilt the city in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks with strong management and execution, resourceful innovation, and a belief that “the impossible is possible” — all essential elements for recovery today.

Sally Susman – Innovation and Corporate Citizenship in Extraordinary Times 
Sally Susman, executive vice president and chief corporate affairs officer at Pfizer, talks about leadership, innovation, breakthroughs, and partnerships in these extraordinary times.

Lisa Mensah – Community Development Financial Institutions: Financing Justice, Investing in Hope 
Lisa Mensah, president and CEO of Opportunity Finance Network, discusses economic and community development finance institutions (CDFIs), finance justice, and ways the Biden-Harris Administration can support CDFIs to "finance hope" and help struggling communities build back stronger.

Sir Ronald Cohen – Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change 
We speak with Sir Ronald Cohen, investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, statesman, author, and a leader of the impact investing revolution on reshaping capitalism to drive real change.

Welcome to the Capital for Good Podcast 
Can business be a force for good? What is the role of capital markets and philanthropy along the pathways to inclusive growth? How can public private partnerships help bring all of our resources and ingenuity to bear?