ASBN Live: Aligning Justice and Sustainability Goals with Your Company Retirement Plan
Andrew Behar
CEO
As You Sow
Andrew Behar is CEO of As You Sow, the nation’s leading non-profit practitioner of shareholder advocacy and engagement. With a 30-year track record of success, As You Sow advances values-aligned investing and uses shareholder power to compel companies to reduce material risk on issues including climate change; toxins in the food system; ocean plastics; diversity, equity, and inclusion; racial justice; and wage equity. Previously Andrew was a documentary filmmaker and entrepreneur founding start-ups that developed innovative physiological monitoring devices and grid-scale fuel cells. He is an inventor on five patents and was recently named as one of the Purposeful-50 “true changemakers who deliver on social justice, environmental protection, diversity, inclusion, racial equality, and gender and pay equity.” He is currently on the board of the Responsible Sourcing Network. His book, The Shareholders Action Guide: Unleash Your Hidden Powers to Hold Corporations Accountable, was published by Berrett-Koehler.
Kristin Hull, PhD
Founder and Chief Investment Officer
Nia Impact Capital
Kristin is founder and CIO of Nia Impact Capital, a diverse-led, woman owned asset manager investing in the transition to a more just inclusive and sustainable economy. Kristin is devoted to democratizing access to impact investing, promoting inclusion and diversity in leadership, to re-envisioning capitalism, and to changing the face of finance.