Rebecca Adamson

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT REBECCA ADAMSON

Indian rights activist to Wharton ESG Advisor. My first 4 years of working were spent in and out of jail as an activist for Indian Controlled School Boards before Indian Self-Determination was legal. Now I Advisor to the Wharton Value Impact and Sustainable Business Initiative on breakthrough research that can link a company\'s financial performance with its negative impact on Indigenous Peoples. The years in between Founder of First Nations Development Institute 19••••04, First Peoples Worldwide 2004 - present and served as Calvert Social Investment Funds Trustee 19••••04. My career spans - a lifetime working at the nexus of Indigenous Peoples values and the innovative application of Indigenous Values into contemporary economic and financial models. Created the first microloan fund in the United States -the Lakota Fund on Pine Ridge Reservation SD and national Tribal Community Development Finance Fund Oweesta; I was a lead organizer for the CDFI Act and co- founder the Association of Enterprise Opportunities. As Trustee for the Calvert Social Investment Funds, I created the first mutual fund vehicle for Impact Investing, Calvert High Social Impact Investing. Calvert\'s HSII initially invested in CDFIs renamed Community Notes now representing over $589 m AUM, established the first Indigenous Peoples Rights Investment Screen/Criteria. 2004 Started First Peoples Worldwide, developed Indigenous Peoples Shareholder Advocacy, led the first global shareholder Indigenous Peoples campaign - Standing Rock Sioux Tribe\'s Dakota Access Pipeline, Advised Royal Dutch Shell C suite, Rio Tinto and Vale, conducted the first Corporate Indigenous Peoples Rights Risk Report, Advisor to Wharton Value Impact and Sustainable Business Initiative and lead author of the Sustainable Indigenous Finance: Investor Guide Navigating the Energy Transition. Recognized in the second class of the WEF Schwab Social Entrepreneur, National Women\'s History Awardee, PBS 100 Change Makers. Co author Meyers Award winning book \"The Color of Wealth\"\"The \'S\' in ESG\" Journal of Applied Corporate Finance,\"Indigenous Peoples + Water + Risk\" ESG Investing UK and \"Conservation an Indigenous State of Mind\" Mongabay. numerous podcasts and talk shows Currently Advisor to Wharton Impact, Values and Sustainable Business Initiative. Also creator of 8 Film Festival Awardee Anime - ENOUGHNESS: The Prequel