Georgette Wong is passionate about connecting communities to financial strategies that enable them to reach their aspirations. In addition to her volunteer work with JEI, she currently is Board Chair for Nonprofit Finance Fund, a nonprofit lender and consultant with 40 years of national and hyperlocal experience, and is on the Investment & Audit Committee for The Russell Family Foundation, a private family foundation in Washington State. A recognized trailblazer in impact investing, she convened and curated the Take Action! Impact Investing Summit, which brought together pioneering asset owners, investors and thought-leaders representing over $4.5 trillion in assets, from 2007-2012. Georgette has presented on impact investing before the US Senate, the US State Department, the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, and others. Prior to her career in investing, she worked in civil rights and social justice at Asian Americans Advancing Justice/Asian Law Caucus and was on the Board of CAA, one of the co-founders of #StopAAPIHate. Georgette earned her MBA at UCLA Anderson and BA magna cum laude at Amherst College. She spends as much time as possible with her family and is an avid baker and tennis player.
Areas of Expertise:
- Thought processes of asset owners, especially those just starting in impact investing
- Languaging impact investing to different kinds of asset owners – those in social change, those in finance
- Particular interest in social justice issues and how to include and connect communities to the investing process
