This week, Greg and Joe are joined by Justina Lai, Chief Impact Officer of Laird Norton Wealth Management and Wetherby Asset Management. Based in San Francisco, she is the Chief Impact Officer and is a shareholder at Wetherby, joining the firm in 2015. She graduated from the NYU Stern School of Business and earned her MBA from Stanford. Throughout the conversation, we learned that she is an avid traveler, she teaches an Impact class at UC Berkeley, and has worked in the sustainability space for a long time with time spent at the Rockefeller Foundation and Sonen Capital. Be sure to find us on Spotify and Apple by searching "Ecofin Podcasts" and subscribe!
This week, Greg and Joe are joined by Justina Lai, Chief Impact Officer of Laird Norton Wealth Management and Wetherby Asset Management. Based in San Francisco, she is the Chief Impact Officer and is a shareholder at Wetherby, joining the firm in 2015. She graduated from the NYU Stern School of Business and earned her MBA from Stanford. Throughout the conversation, we learned that she is an avid traveler, she teaches an Impact class at UC Berkeley, and has worked in the sustainability space for a long time with time spent at the Rockefeller Foundation and Sonen Capital.
Be sure to find us on Spotify and Apple by searching "Ecofin Podcasts" and subscribe!
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Her backstory begins at 2:45
The impact course she teaches (5:32)
How her journey began (8:30)
Impact Investing and the evolution of Responsible Investing (17:45)
How you think about additionality (22:41)
How do you balance private and public market impact (26:40)
Are people more or less interested in impact today than 10 years ago (28:58)
Where does she see things going, what's exciting? (32:07)
Catalytic Capital vs Philanthrophy (36:02)
Living a Generative vs. Extractive Life (39:22)
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