Believe-in-You Money

“Jessica brings personality, courageous storytelling, and inspiration to the financial space in a way no one ever has before.”—Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard University “Jessica Norwood has inspired me to relinquish my trained scarcity around resources and helped me to understand that we must transform our financial systems as we transform our relationship to ourselves and the planet. Community is the pathway to mutual, sustainable abundance.”—adrienne maree brown, Author of Emergent Strategy “Black people have given an immeasurable amount of unpaid labor and blood to this country and the capital we invest should honor that. Jessica is the right person and this is the right time for this conversation.”—LaTosha Brown, Co-founder of Black Voters Matters “The inspiring story of how Jessica created RUNWAY reminds you to ‘Trust Black Women.’ You will never see investing the same way after you learn about the work Jessica and the team at RUNWAY is doing.”—Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement

Jessica Norwood is the Founder of the Runway Project, a financial activist, and social entrepreneur who was awarded the Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship for Economic Disruption. An immediate past fellow of RSF Social Finance Integrated Capital, Jessica speaks worldwide on the intersection of culture and investing, emerging leadership, community investing and African American wealth creation. Featured in Essence Magazine, NPR, Next City, and Fast Company, Jessica is a lifelong Fellow of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and Southern University College of Business, as well as the Political Power Fellow of the Hip Hop Archive at the Hutchinson Institute of Harvard University.