Impactful Careers In Finance: Career Coaching For Wall Street Millennials

Join us to hear how Pitichoke leveraged his graduate school degree to help Neighborly save city governments billions of dollars in infrastructure investments through a crowdfunding model which democratizes municipal bond access to allow local community participation in bond issuances. Pitichoke serves as the Director of Business Development at Neighborly, a mission-driven financial technology company that empowers community members to directly invest in local public projects they care about. Concurrently, he is a research fellow at the Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Prior, he worked as a senior analyst at Goldman Sachs' Private Equity Group. Pitichoke earned a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he served as student body President and Cofounder of Happy Farmers.  Neighborly has created a relatively simple and personalized process for individual retail investors to access the $3.6 trillion municipal securities&nbs

Join us as we explore methods to align your career with your interests. Nasir serves as the Associate Director of Social Investments at AT&T, focusing on education and employment technology investments and philanthropy that empowers students, workers success and career readiness. Prior to AT&T, Nasir led Village Capital's Economic Opportunity portfolio, democratizing the venture capital selection process to better enable investors, foundations, and corporations alike to engage with high growth businesses around the world solving pressing challenges in Education, Health, and Financial Services. Nasir began his career as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs and later worked as an Associate at State Street Corporation. Subsequently, in 2014 Nasir was appointed as the Special Assistant to the Commissioner of Education at the Connecticut State Department of Education and Education Pioneer Fellow, focusing on improving digital learning and infrastructure to empower teachers and school leader

Join us for our second episode to learn how field experience builds the leadership and cross-cultural communication skills for a successful career in emerging markets as we interview Kusi Hornberger, who started his career by joining the Peace Corps in Tanzania. Kusi is currently a Vice President at Global Partnerships, an impact investing fund in Seattle which invests impact-led capital in social enterprises that bring market-sustained opportunity to millions in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. Prior to that, Kusi worked as a case team leader at Bain & Company in South America and an Investment Officer for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.  In both roles he has published numerous papers on private sector development and impact investing and has extensive experience presenting at international forums such as the UNCTAD Global Conference on Trade and Investment, Latin America's Impact Investing Forum and W

Tune in to our first episode to hear tech entrepreneur, Elsa Sze, overview her career progression from Investment Banking, to working on the Obama campaign, to founding her own company. Agora is an online town hall platform with a mission to reimagine democracy in the 21st century by using technology to build more engaged communities. Her belief in the power of ordinary citizens to change the world was further affirmed by her experience serving as a policy advisor for the Obama campaign in 2012. Prior to Harvard, Elsa was a consultant at McKinsey & co. and a research analyst for the International Monetary Fund. She also worked two investment banking internships with J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs.