Jessica Norwood is the founder of the RUNWAY and 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, Norwood speaks worldwide about 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, she is also 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 and Research Institute at the Hutchins Center of Harvard University.