Makers on a Mission: How Align Impact Finances Your Sustainable Business

Jarrod and Olivier speak with Yihana Von Ritter, the Associate Director of Private Market Investments at Align Impact. She joined Align Impact in 2019 after completing her graduate studies at Yale and holding impact investing roles at Agora Partnerships in Colombia and Investing for Good in the United Kingdom. Previously, Yihana had gained extensive experience working with various non-profit organizations in the United States, Panama, and Colombia.

She was the Country Associate for Clinton Health Access Initiative where she led national-level operations in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and El Salvador. Yihana also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay as a Community Mobilizer and Health Educator. Yihana holds an MBA and a Master of Global Affairs from Yale University and a BA from Stanford University.⁠ We discuss what makes Align Impact unique from the rest of the impact investing industry, the myth of having to sacrifice financial return for ESG impact, how to lower financial risk as entrepreneurs, how to measure impact accurately, actions being taken to scale impact investing, what we can do as entrepreneurs to attract impact investments, and how you can invest your own money responsibly.

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