Creating Diverse Funding Streams For Black Female Entrepreneurs




Hear from top social innovators on the barriers that Black female entrepreneurs face in accessing funding and venture capital.


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Hear from top social innovators on the barriers that Black female entrepreneurs face in accessing funding and venture capital.

About this Event

The Yale School of Management's Black Business Alliance and Impact Investing Club and Echoing Green, in partnership with the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY), invite you to join this evening program, which explores the barriers that Black female entrepreneurs face in receiving unequal access to funding and venture capital. This event will bring together top social innovators who are partnering across sectors and disciplines with the goal to continually improve and expand upon entrepreneurial opportunities for Black female entrepreneurs in the U.S.
This event is free and open to the public (RSVP required); all are welcome.
Panelists:
  • Felecia Hatcher, founder, Black Tech Week | 2017 Echoing Green BMA Fellow
  • Yeshimabeit Milner, founder, Data For Black Lives | 2017 Echoing Green BMA Fellow
  • Tanay Tatum-Edwards, founder, FreeCap | 2019 Echoing Green BMA Fellow
  • Brittany Young, founder, B360 Baltimore | 2018 Echoing Green BMA Fellow
About Black Innovator Talks:
Black Innovator Talks by Echoing Green is an inclusive high profile series on leadership and entrepreneurship and is hosted at numerous universities across the United States. It was launched in 2020 to host conversations about the intersection of innovation and Black futures in the U.S. Panelists will include social innovators from Echoing Green’s Black Male Achievement Fellowship program alongside other leaders from the tech, funding, media, social, and business sectors.
The Black Innovator Talks series is powered with support from the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact in partnership with Echoing Green.
About Echoing Green:
Echoing Green identifies tomorrow’s transformational leaders today. Through Fellowships and other innovative leadership initiatives, Echoing Green spots emerging leaders and invests deeply in their success to accelerate their impact. The organization provides seed-funding and leadership development to a new class of Fellows every year and welcomes them into a lifelong community of leaders. Learn more h

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