Leveraging Financial Power to Build Equity; A Brief History of Black Education in America; PLUS Restorative Economics Creating Pathways to Prosperity

Our Body Politic

Diaspora Farms, LLC

News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

How do you harness the power of money for the greater good? This week, Farai speaks to philanthropist Mona Sinha, founder and CEO of the Insight Circle Fund, about what it means to make an impact as a woman of color in the worlds of finance and of giving. In the series “Our Body Politic Presents…” Aimée Eubanks Davis, host and creator of the podcast After 1954 speaks to author of Black Teachers on Teaching, researcher and professor Michele Foster about the rich past of Black education in the United States, specifically the effects of school desegregation on Black students following Brown V. Board. Then in our weekly segment, ‘Sippin’ the Political Tea’, Farai speaks about pathways to shared prosperity and innovative approaches to community and finance with Nwamaka Agbo, CEO of the Kataly Foundation and Managing Director of the Restorative Economies Fund; and Jessica Norwood, Founder of RUNWAY.

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0:00.0	Hi, folks, we are so glad that you're listening to Our Body Politic.
0:19.1	If you have time, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcast.
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0:27.4	We'd also love you to join in financially supporting the show if you are able.
0:32.0	You can find out more at ourbodypolitic.com slash donate.
0:36.5	We are here for you, with you, and because of you. Thank you.
0:42.5	This is Our Body Politic. I'm Farai Chidea. Economic power provides access to many things,
0:49.8	from political power to better health outcomes. Who has access to wealth matters and includes who has
0:56.1	jobs in finance and philanthropy? Mona Sinha is a global force in finance, philanthropy, feminism, and more.
1:04.4	We reached out to ask Mona about her work helping women of color claim their economic power
1:08.9	in many different ways. She's the founder and CEO of
1:13.1	the Insight Circle Fund and Project, the board chair of women moving millions, and also board chair
1:18.3	of the ERA Coalition Fund for Women's Equality. But more than that, she's an integrated thinker
1:23.5	about finance, race, gender equity, and social progress.
1:29.9	Mona, welcome to Our Body Politics.
1:33.7	Thank you, Farai. It's such a pleasure to be here speaking with you today.
1:41.0	So I want to start with a broad question. What's money? You've had this incredible career in finance and philanthropy, and I'm just trying to get a sense of how you think of money, what it is and isn't,
1:47.1	and how we should understand how it moves in and impacts the world.
1:51.7	I think money is a social and geopolitical force.
1:56.1	It enables people to hold power, which is a word many of us don't like. But let's face it,
2:03.3	people who have money have great influence and have great power. And how did you understand money
2:08.5	when you were growing up as a child in Calcutta? We all have an origin story. Like my origin
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