Information Session: Systems Aware Investing Launchpad (SAIL)

Monique Aiken is Managing Director at TIIP. She is a co-founder of Make Justice Normal, a growing collective seeking to open space for people working to move capital towards justice and the ReStarter Fund, an economic and climate justice initiative aiming to be a small business lifeline in these unique times. Monique is also a Contributing Editor at ImpactAlpha. Monique is a member of the Steering Committee for the Intentional Endowments Network, the Investment Committee for the NYU Impact Investment Fund and the Advisory Board for the Global Bio Fund, focused on gendersmart biotech and wellness. Monique is a proud Toigo, SEO, and INROADS alum and holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, where she specialized in Financial Instruments and Markets and a B.Sc. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

William Burckart is the CEO at TIIP. He is a co-founder of Colorful Capital, which is bringing capital support and scaffolding to enterprises founded and led by members of the broad LGBTQ+ community; he coauthors a regular column for Nasdaq.com on the intersection between LGBTQ+ advancement and investment. William is Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs and The Brandmeyer Fellow for Impact and Sustainable Investing at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University. He is a fellow of the High Meadows Institute and co-author of the book 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change (Berrett-Koehler, 2021). He holds a Master of Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of International Affairs from The George Washington University.