Kate Barron-Alicante is a financial activist whose body of work spans twenty years in the social change and financial services sectors. Kate’s gift is in supporting individuals and organizations who, navigating our current capitalist system, seek authentic and intentional approaches to align their justice-centered values, their legacy and their financial practices. Along with her clients, Kate shares a passion for strategically leveraging money for climate justice at this moment in history.
Kate serves as the Board Secretary-Treasurer of Taproot Earth, a global climate justice organization that centers the leadership of the Black diaspora, Indigenous and frontline communities in climate solutions. She is a founding member and inaugural steering crew member of Radical Planners, organizing progressive financial advisors to better support the movement for a Just Transition. Kate has worked over six years inside the financial services industry as financial advisor, relationship manager, and most recently Director of Impact and Board Member within a $3B financial advisory firm and B Corp.
Prior to her career in finance, Kate spent 15 years in social justice & social change work in non-governmental organizations and academia throughout the US, Europe and South America. This work included working as a part of Oxfam America’s first US disaster recovery team in post-Katrina South Louisiana, land where her ancestors have lived for nine generations.
Kate holds an MsC in International Development from the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, a BA in International Relations from Boston University and is a Certified Financial Planner™. She lives in Philadelphia with her family.