Values-driven investors wanted to redistribute wealth and invest in community — but lacked advisors, infrastructure, and trusted partners to make it real.
Enter Chordata Capital – an anticapitalist wealth management firm, collaborating to move clients’ investments off of Wall Street and into community investments that center racial and economic justice.
The Collaborators
Tiffany Brown (JEI Cohort 1) — Organizer, financial advisor, movement builder
- Decades of donor & investor organizing
- Deep analysis of racial & economic justice
- Ability to translate movement values into financial strategy
- Commitment to cross-class collaboration
- Builder of learning communities
Kate Poole (JEI Cohort 1) – Wealth redistributor, investor, creative strategist
- Deep experience in local & community investing
- Willingness to take risks and challenge norms
- Strong creative and communication skills
- Long-term practitioner and learner in reparative finance
- Personal and professional experience leveraging inherited resources for collective good
Tiffany
Kate
Their Story
When Tiffany Brown and Kate Poole reconnected through the Just Economy Institute’s inaugural fellowship, it felt less like a networking moment and more like a “meant-to-be” reunion. They had met years earlier through Resource Generation, one of the few spaces at the time where wealth, justice, and redistribution could be named out loud.
What they shared was this deeply held belief: investing itself could be a form of activism, and that finance needed to be rebuilt, not rebranded.
By the time they entered the JEI fellowship, both were at a crossroads. Tiffany had spent years organizing donors and investors, moving between activist spaces that deeply understood the problems and wealth spaces filled with people eager — but unsupported — to choose a different path. Kate, meanwhile, was organizing wealthy peers around investing but felt similarly constrained.
One prompt at a JEI fellowship gathering asked participants to imagine leveraging $100 million to advance a just economy.
In 2018, that invitation to imagine would materialize into Chordata Capital.
Drawing on Tiffany’s organizing background and advisory experience, combined with Kate’s willingness to leverage inherited wealth and take creative risks, they began designing an investment advisory firm for people who wanted to redistribute wealth. Advisors told them it wasn’t possible. Fiduciary duty, naysayers argued, required maximizing returns. Community investments were too risky. Avoiding corporations was unrealistic.
Tiffany and Kate disagreed.
“If a client’s goal is to redistribute wealth and invest in the solidarity economy, your responsibility is to support that,” Tiffany said. “You just have to build the infrastructure, skills, and relationships to make it happen.”
The inflection point wasn’t just technical; it was relational. They were members of JEI and other communities of practice that focused on trust-building, cross-class dialogue, and permission to question the foundations of the system itself. Instead of chasing pre-existing models, the JEI cohort focused on asking better questions together. What would investing look like if frontline communities held power? What if finance were a learning space, not a performance?
Chordata Capital launched to meet the quiet but urgent demand of investors ready to move money out of Wall Street and into community-controlled investments.
At the end of 2025, Chordata managed over $199 million in assets. They’re proud to have made over $90 million in community investments on behalf of their clients; into community-controlled real estate, co-op loan funds, community controlled loan funds, Black and Native led funds, and more.
“Radical interdependence is at the core of how we built our business. Our deep invitation for everyone is to act as if we truly need each other,” says Tiffany.
Looking ahead, both women emphasize that the real innovation isn’t the firm — it’s the collaboration. “I’m so grateful to be in this work with Tiffany. She took a really big risk partnering with me and building this wild firm,” shares Kate. “It feels so powerful to do this together.”
Chordata Capital is proof of what can emerge when collaboration isn’t an afterthought, but the strategy from day one.