Rodney Foxworth
(she/her)
Chief Executive Officer, Common Future

Rodney Foxworth is CEO of Common Future, a U.S.-based national nonprofit that advises, incubates, funds, and promotes community wealth building initiatives and consults institutions and individual wealth holders on how to better leverage their resources in support of building more equitable economies. Previously, Rodney was the Founder and CEO of Invested Impact, a consulting firm and intermediary that connected philanthropic and investment capital to social entrepreneurs of color. Rodney has had a diverse and expansive career spanning startups, nonprofits, philanthropy and impact investing, and economic and workforce development.

His writing has appeared in periodicals such as Boston Review, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Impact Alpha, Nonprofit Quarterly, and Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). Rodney has been quoted in media such as Forbes, Inc., MarketWatch, The New York Times, Vox, and Protocol. He’s spoken at Aspen Institute, Skoll World Forum, Brookings Institution, Social Finance Forum, and other stages, addressing topics such as monopoly power, economic racism and racial wealth inequality, and institutionalized discrimination in philanthropy.

Rodney serves as Co-Convener of Imperative 21 and sits on the board of directors of Nonprofit Finance Fund and Race Forward, as well as the advisory board of the Access To Markets initiative at American Economic Liberties Project. He is a Skoll Awardee for Social Innovation and an inaugural Ford Global Fellow.

Moderator: Community Wealth Building