Akasha Absher

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ABOUT AKASHA ABSHER

Strategic leader with over 20+ years of finance, corporate strategy, and nonprofit experience bridging the gap between philanthropy and financial capital. Akasha Absher is the Chief Consulting Officer for Syntrinsic Investment Counsel. Akasha is charged with overseeing the firm’s efforts to create enduring strategic partnerships with clients and craft best in class stewardship platforms that will allow them to have a meaningful impact in the community. She provides strategic guidance and investment advice to foundations, public charities, and philanthropic private clients. Akasha has strong experience working with the nonprofit sector thinking through strategic issues surrounding investing all resources in support of the mission. Furthermore, she is a voting member of the firm’s Investment Committee and Chair of the firm’s Impact Investing Committee. Akasha earned her Bachelors of Arts in Finance from Clark Atlanta University and her MBA from the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan. She has earned her Series 65 through FINRA and is a graduate of the Denver Metro Chamber’s Leadership Foundation, Leadership Denver Class of 2015. In 2017 and 2018, Akasha was awarded DBJ’s Who’s Who in Impact Investing.Akasha currently is serving as a Board Member of The Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation, the Secretary of the Board of Colorado Charter Facility Solutions, a Board of Advisors Member of Colorado Succeeds, and a Member of Rose Community Foundation’s Professional Advisors Council. Previously she was a Board Member of Florence Crittenton and past Co-Chair of the Women’s Foundation of Colorado’s Power of Extended Philanthropy Club.