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Randi McCray
Randi McCray Board Member About Randi R. McCray (Gregory) is a respected diversity professional fostering inclusive environments across various sectors. Her strategic approach focuses on enhancing workplace belonging through self-awareness and addressing unconscious biases. As a New Haven resident, Randi actively engages in community initiatives like the Believe in Me Empowerment Corporation (BIMEC) and the…
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Elinor Slomba
Elinor Slomba Associate Executive Director About Elinor Slomba supports organizations large and small in meeting their community engagement goals. She works at the intersection of economic and cultural development to ensure that Conscious Business Collaborative’s efforts gain robust participation through strategic brand differentiators and creative incentives.
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The Forgotten Factor Driving the Rise of Sustainable Investing
The convergence between sustainability and investing is driving systemic change in the capital markets. Bloomberg estimates that ESG investing – which involves taking into account Environmental, Social, and Governance considerations in addition to financial factors – will represent a third of global assets under management by 2025. In her recent article, Anna Alemani draws attention to…
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Mahfuja Malik
Mahfuja Malik Board Member About Mahfuja is Associate Professor of Accounting at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. She received her Ph.D. degree in accounting from Boston University, an MBA in international finance from Brandeis University and BBA in finance and banking from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She teaches undergraduate and graduate students in core and advanced level accounting courses.…
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Jack Nork
Jack Nork Board Member About Jack Nork is an accomplished IT professional with over 15 years of experience, currently excelling as the Implementation Director at Reality Interactive. His career is distinguished by a unique blend of digital marketing expertise, strategic insight, and robust technical skills, complemented by excellent interpersonal abilities. Jack is renowned for creating…
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Laquita Joyner
Laquita Joyner Board Member About Joyner-McGraw is a Ph.D. student in Organizational Leadership at Regent University and is Executive Director and Nonprofit Consultant at the Seminary of The Open Bible. In her MGT 200 course, Joyner-McGraw partners with the Business Success Center at the School of Business, Southern Connecticut State University to prepare students for future job searches with resume…
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A Conscious Innovator Takes on Big Data & Human Rights
In July 2022, our Board member Sashi Edupuganti was humbled and honored by CxO Outlook as one of the 10 most inspiring entrepreneurs. While we celebrate his achievement, we want to give our community a chance to get to know him better. Every time you or I go online, the trail of our digital footprints…
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Can Lawyers be Conscious Capitalists?
By Soledad Matteozzi We are used to identifying conscious businesses with companies that take ownership over their impact on the planet and are built around values to make positive change. Great companies such as Patagonia, Unilever, Natura come to mind. However, we may not tend to think of law firms as conscious organizations. I will…
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Gavin’s Friday Reads: The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder
History doesn’t repeat itself exactly, but it can illuminate possible futures. This is a central point in this book by Timothy Snyder, who is among other things the Richard C Levin Professor of History at Yale. He has written extensively on the emergence of autocracies. One of his other recent books is On Tyranny: Twenty…