Podcasts about halcyon incubator

S3 Ep6 | The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with almost 2.2 million people in prison, and 1 in 7 Americans have an immediate family member incarcerated for more than a year. And yet the prison-industrial complex remains a robust, well-funded system. The right data gives us not only a picture of the dire state of incarceration, but a powerful tool to invest in social change. In this episode, Tanay Tatum-Edwards, Founder & CEO of FreeCap Financial, shares how social justice-informed financial data can help investors take real action against mass incarceration. About Tanay.Tanay Tatum-Edwards is the founder and CEO of FreeCap Financial, Inc, a research company that provides investors and money managers with intelligent, social-justice oriented data to equip individuals and collectives with the tools they need to enact positive change in this world. Before FreeCap, she developed a lifelong commitment to using investment strategies to create systemic social change while working in asset management. Tanay has multiple loved ones impacted by mass incarceration and is committed to using her expertise to address it. Prestigious fellowships have supported her work, including Echoing Green, Fulbright, Halcyon Incubator, and Roddenberry Foundation.Tanay regularly shares insights from FreeCap's research at events, including SOCAP, Confluence Philanthropy, Stanford University, Vassar College, Tufts University, Georgetown University, and Yale University. Her thought leadership has been spotlighted in major news outlets, including MarketWatch. A foodie, NBA fan, and lover of hip-hop, Tanay received an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, where her classmates elected her commencement speaker, and a B.A. in Africana Studies & Sociology from Vassar College, where she served as student body president.Renegade Capital Tools & Tips.A renegade not only listens but acts. We've consolidated a few tips from this episode to help you use your investments to fight mass incarceration. Check if your investments are incarceration-free. As You Sow has a great resource to see if your 401k or personal portfolio is prison-free. You can also share this resource with your advisor and ask questions about other ways to decarcerate your investments. They also have some great suggestions as part of the Prison-Free Action Toolkit. Join the Waitlist for FreeCap's Free Prison Risk Index. FREE is an index that makes it possible to invest in companies who lead in fair chance hiring and disrupt the prison industrial complex. The index will be made up of FreeCap's highest rated companies and will be the first of its kind to incorporate a companies' fair chance hiring practices and prison risk mitigation efforts. Join the waitlist Support the showLove the podcast? Subscribe and follow to never miss an episode.Linkedin | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Join our mailing list

How do we build sustainable organizations that make real, lasting impact?My guest this week on the Leadership Tales Podcast, Daniel Barker, is the Managing Director of the Halcyon Incubator in Washington DC. Halcyon is an incubator for businesses focused on social impact, an area that I am passionate about. Through Halcyon, Daniel is making a lot of headway for women and people of color in entrepreneurship.Daniel has a fascinating background, beginning in foreign relations and moving on to hold a variety of titles at prominent financial and professional services firms. Through all of this, Daniel has consistently had his gaze set on impact and social change. We discuss the role of ego, and how learning from mentors' rough patches has a huge impact on our journey as a leader.I found myself enthralled with this episode, and I can't wait for the day I make it to DC to meet Daniel and see Halcyon myself! Links Mentioned:Daniel Barker on LinkedInHalcyon Incubator

Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick! On today's episode, we talk with Daniel Hill, Senior Manager of Innovation at Environmental Defense Fund and Creator of #OpenDoorClimate about The Environmental Defense Fund, Open Door Climate, and Career Advice.  Read his full bio below.Help us continue to create great content! If you'd like to sponsor a future episode hit the support podcast button or visit www.environmentalprofessionalsradio.com/sponsor-formShowtimes: 2:50  Nic & Laura discuss airplane movies9:24  Interview with Daniel Hill starts9:35  The Environmental Defense Fund16:43  Career Advice21:45  Open Door Climate27:28  Field NotesPlease be sure to ✔️subscribe, ⭐rate and ✍review. This podcast is produced by the National Association of Environmental Professions (NAEP). Check out all the NAEP has to offer at NAEP.org.Connect with Daniel Hill at https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilldp/Guest Full Bio:Daniel Hill is currently a Senior Manager of Innovation at Environmental Defense Fund, where he created EDF's Innovation Fund - an internal incubator to unleash creative solutions to protect the environment. Previously, he led corporate partnerships and an entrepreneurship initiative for EDF's Climate Corps fellowship program. Prior to EDF, Daniel cofounded Green Impact Campaign, a nonprofit that trained students to conduct energy assessments for small businesses. Daniel is an Echoing Green fellow, Halcyon Incubator fellow, Clean Energy Leadership Institute fellow, and recipient of the Alliance to Save Energy's Rising Star of Energy Efficiency Award and Net Impact's Force for Change Award.Music CreditsIntro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace MesaOutro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs MullerSupport the show

Jay Newton-Small is CEO and founder of MemoryWell, a patient engagement platform and SaaS that is personalizing how health insurers connect with their members.   Previously, Jay was Washington correspondent for TIME Magazine, where she remains a contributor.  At TIME she covered politics as well as stories on five continents from conflicts in the Middle East to the earthquake in Haiti and the November 2015 Paris terror attacks. She has written nearly a dozen TIME cover stories and interviewed numerous heads of state, including Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.   She authored the 2016 best-selling book, Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works.   Before TIME, Jay was a reporter for Bloomberg News, where she covered the White House and politics.   Jay received an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and undergraduate degrees in International Relations and Art History from Tufts University. She is a 2017 Halcyon Incubator fellow, a 2016-2017 New America fellow and a 2015 Harvard Institute of Politics fellow. She is the 2016 winner of the prestigious Dirksen Award for congressional reporting and the 2016 Deadline Club award for community service reporting. https://www.memorywell.com

Elliot Roth is the founder of Spira, a company that creates replacements for animal and petroleum compounds in the supply chain using genetically engineered algae. Spira has received awards from RebelBio, Lighthouse Labs, the World Food Programme, Halcyon Incubator, BeGreen, CommBeBiz, and NSF. He has presented at South by Southwest, Synbiobeta, and Thought for Food. Elliot is a Kairos Fellow, a Seasteading Ambassador, and sat on the Virginia Governor's Council for Youth Entrepreneurship. Before Spira, Elliot graduated with a degree in biomedical engineering. Where he studied synthetic biology for 12 years and worked for 5 years as a product consultant. He previously founded 7 failed startups and 2 successful nonprofits including an open community science lab and raised over $1,000,000 for various startups. He is incredibly motivated to solve physiological needs using simple biological design. In his spare time, he plays music and is working on side projects to make airships and health clinics on the ocean. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/spaceexplr/support

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy talks with Steph Speirs who is the co-founder and CEO of Solstice.  Solstice connects businesses and households to local clean energy sources with guaranteed annual savings.  Steph speaks about a lot of interesting topics about their innovative customer acquisition strategies for community solar subscribers, how their Energy Score is better predictor of customers paying their energy bill compared to FICO, engaging the LMI community regarding community solar, and community solar trends. Benoy Thanjan Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and CEO of Reneu Energy, as well as an advisor for several solar startup companies. Reneu Energy is a premier international solar energy consulting firm and developer, and the company focuses on developing commercial and industrial solar, as well as utility-scale solar plus storage projects. The company also sources financing for solar projects and hedges both energy and environmental commodities.  Benoy received his first experience in Finance as an intern at D.E. Shaw & Co., which is a global investment firm with 37 billion dollars in investment capital. Before founding Reneu Energy, he was the SREC Trader in the Project Finance Group for SolarCity, which merged with Tesla in 2016. He originated SREC trades with buyers and co-developed their SREC monetization and hedging strategy with the senior management of SolarCity, to move into the east coast markets. Benoy also worked at Vanguard Energy Partners, Ridgewood Renewable Power, and Deloitte & Touche. Steph Speirs She co-founded and runs Solstice, an enterprise dedicated to radically expanding the number of American households that can take advantage of clean energy using community-shared solar farms. She was selected as an Inc Magazine Female Founder 100, Echoing Green Climate Fellow, a Kia Revisionary, a Renewable Energy World 40 Under 40 in Solar, Elle Magazine/INCO’s US Impact Entrepreneur of the Year, a Grist 50 Fixer, a Sierra Club Face of Clean Energy, a GLG Social Impact Fellow, a Cordes Fellow, a Global Good Fund Fellow, and an Acumen Global Fellow. Solstice was accelerated by Techstars Boston, MIT, Princeton, MassChallenge, Halcyon Incubator, and Cleantech Open. 

 She previously led sales and marketing innovation initiatives in India at d.light, a solar products company powering areas without reliable electricity; spearheaded Acumen's renewable energy impact investment strategy in Pakistan; developed Middle East policy as the youngest policy director at the White House National Security Council; and field organized in seven states for the first Obama presidential campaign. 

 She serves on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club Foundation and on the Advisory Board of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. She holds a B.A. from Yale, a Master in Public Affairs (MPA) with distinction from Princeton, and an MBA from MIT with a Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. At MIT, she was a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, the Legatum Fellowship, the Dean's Fellowship, and the Public Service Fellowship. She originally hails from Hawaii and was raised by a single immigrant mother. Stay Connected: Benoy Thanjan Email: info@reneuenergy.com  LinkedIn: Benoy Thanjan Website: https://www.reneuenergy.com   Steph Speirs Website:  https://solstice.us Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/skyspeirs/   Subscribe to our podcast + download each episode on iTunes,Podbean, and youtube.  This episode was produced and managed by  Podcast Laundry (www.podcastlaundry.com)                

Jay Newton-Small, CEO and Founder of MemoryWell, a digital storytelling platform for seniors, speaks to George on this episode of DC Entrepreneur. You'll hear how Newton-Small got the idea for the start-up when filling out paperwork to get her father into assisted care after he was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. As a TIME Magazine correspondent, journalist, and author of Broad Influence, she wrote his story down to help her father's caregivers understand his past better. In this conversation, Jay talks about how MemoryWell worked with Brookdale Senior Living for their pilot program, how she bootstrapped the idea through Kickstarter and by winning pitch competitions before focusing on fundraising, and how her involvement through accelerators such as TechStars and the Halcyon Incubator helped her learn to build a business. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/georgeindc)

On this episode of the Startup of the Year podcast, we hear from Polly Rodriguez, the founder, and CEO of Unbound, a sexual wellness company for women. They make and sell vibrators, lubricants, and accessories online along with their digital magazine. Polly and Unbound competed in the 2017 Startup of the Year program and finished in the Top 5 that year.    We also hear some segments from some of our Established Team members. Our Co-CEO, Jen Consalvo, provides advice for startup founders that are trying to find their path. Also, our Director of Partnerships, Jacqui Dietrich, provides an update about our Partner Programs and specifically discusses the following:   Founders First Capital Partners - https://foundersfirstcapitalpartners.com Backstage Capital - https://backstagecapital.com Halcyon Incubator - https://halcyonhouse.org/incubator/apply American Inno - https://www.americaninno.com Startup Space - https://startupspace.captivate.fm   As mentioned in the episode, please join us for our upcoming 8th Annual Startup of the Year Summit which will be held online on November 16-18. The Summit is a curated experience for emerging founders, seasoned entrepreneurs, corporate innovation leads, accelerators, and investors to build relationships that fuel success. Summit is also the culmination of the 2020 Startup of the Year competition, and attendees can expect some of the following: The Top 100 Startups will compete for the 2020 Startup of the Year championship title. Up to $20K in potential investment from Established Ventures for one of the semifinalists. $10K non-diluted cash prize for a U.S. Veteran-led company from sponsor .US Curated connections for the Top 100 with investors and corporate leads. Keynote speakers, such as Tim Draper (Draper VC), Kara Goldin (Hint Water), and Mike Evans (GrubHub), and more. "Ask Me Anything" sessions with VCs, Corporate Leaders, and Seasoned Entrepreneurs. Opportunity to network with expert judges and mentors, such as Phil Nadel, Lesa Mitchell, Erica Minnihan, and more. You can learn more about the Summit and register for the event at the following link: https://summit.startupofyear.com/   Also, please get your free .US domain today by going to the following link: soty.link/dotusplus.    Thank you for listening, and as always, please check out the Established website and subscribe to the newsletter at www.est.us   Checkout Startup of the Year at www.startupofyear.com/   Subscribe to the Startup of the Year Daily Deal Flow: www.startupofyear.com/daily-dealflow   Subscribe to the Startup of the Year podcast: http://startupoftheyear.libsyn.com/   Subscribe to the Established YouTube Channel: https://soty.link/ESTYouTube   *** Startup of the Year helps diverse, emerging startups, founding teams, and entrepreneurs push their company to the next level. We are a competition, a global community, and a resource.     Startup of the Year is also a year-long program that searches the country for a geographically diverse set of startups from all backgrounds and pulls them together to compete for the title of Startup of the Year.    The program includes a number of in-person and virtual events, including our annual South By Southwest startup pitch event and competition. All of which culminate at our annual Startup of the Year Summit, where the Startup of the Year winner is announced, along with an opportunity at a potential investment.   Established is a consultancy focused on helping organizations with innovation, startup, and communication strategies. It is the power behind Startup of the Year.  Created by the talent responsible for building the Tech.Co brand (acquired by an international publishing company), we are leveraging decades of experience to help our collaborators best further (or create) their brand & accomplish their most important goals.  Connect with us on Twitter - @EstablishedUs and Facebook - facebook.com/established.us/.

In this episode, I speak with Yossuf Albanawi, co-founder of Opioid addiction solution, Pilleve.  Yossuf is a graduate of Wake Forest University, he is a fellow at the Halcyon Incubator in Washington DC. This conversation is about the Opioid crisis.  This is such a huge problem in our society, and we need solutions faster than we are bringing them to market.  While there are traditional resources available for people once they become addicted, there are no solutions on the market focused on preventing addiction effectively. That’s the focus of Pilleve – to prevent addiction to Opioids while still allowing doctors to prescribe these drugs, when necessary, with reduced risk of addiction. You can connect with Youssef and learn more about his work here: Pilleve Website, Yossuf on LinkedIn, Pilleve on Twitter, HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE DISCUSSED: Yossuf shares his experience with addiction at an early age to prescription drugs.  He talks about how his loved ones noticed very early on and sought the help of a professional to intervene.  He gives a great example of how we can help our loved ones if we notice that they need help. What were some major parts of recovery for you?  Yossuf explains that spirituality, and awareness were the two biggest components of his recovery from addiction. How did he learn about the scale of the Opioid Crisis? Yossuf took an entry level job after school at a rehab center.  He did this to learn about what was being treated, why, and how.  He found his purpose there.  He explains how about 10 years ago most of the patients in treatment centers were there for alcohol.  Then it flipped to be mostly Opioids in recent years. Can Opioid addiction be prevented?  While working at a treatment center, Yossuf wondered about this.  Why can’t we screen for this or treat this like other physical health problems?  Is there a preventative measure we could put in place?  Yes, but he had to build it.  And he has.  Pilleve. The healthcare model in the United States is a fee for service model which means we typically treat people once they are sick or need treatment.  Whether or not that’s a fair or good model is up for debate, but in this system, we have to look for innovation in order to “prevent” problems and that’s what Yossuf has done around the Opioid crisis. Heroin addicts traditionally (60%+) begin with prescription drug abuse.  There is such a huge opportunity to identify this before it happens and then prevent the long-term cost on the person, on companies, on the economy, and on loved ones of that future addict’s problems (death, destruction, in-patient treatment, etc.). What is Pilleve?  Pilleve is a smart, secure pill bottle that adapts into existing pharmacy and physician workflows.  The Pilleve bottle and platform tracks, monitors and reports real-time use data to physicians allowing physicians to identify potential addictive behaviors very early.  The Pilleve device makes it safer for doctors to prescribe Opioids to their patients.  Pilleve focused on 3 main things: Compliance – Making sure people don’t take too much of their medication.  This is very different and needs to be distinctly differentiated from “adherence.”  Adherence is the focus of most who have built solutions in the “prescription pill” market.  Adherence means making sure people take the medications they should.  We are focused on preventing people from taking too much.  Is someone taking too much, or abusing the pills (this is the unique Pilleve focus). Reduction – Focused on getting people “off” of the Opioid medication as soon as possible.  This is an application of the data they gather on each patient while they use the medication. Diversion – Get the excess pills back to the pharmacy once the patient has recovered.  Today, many pills remain in the medicine cabinet for misuse at a later date, often by someone else in the household. What is the high-level mission of Pilleve?  The Company’s mission is to become the controlled drug standard for prescribing, dispensing and using controlled drugs. Are there other smart pill bottles out there?  There are a few smart pill bottle caps and such that are used for monitoring opening and closing by the patient.  These are more focused on adherence, whereas Pilleve is focused on compliance (as described above).  We are focused on taking too much, versus these other solutions, that are focused on whether you take the medication at all.  These are very different behaviors, mindsets and use-cases. Should drugs be illegal?  A favorite topic these days, we talk about how in some countries (Portugal and Netherlands) the legalization of drugs led to lower crime, lower addiction, and fewer people going to treatment centers.  However, we also talk about how those countries have different dynamics than what exist in the U.S. (different people, different healthcare system, different culture, etc.) so you can’t look at them as a 1:1 comparison on whether or not certain drugs should even be illegal. How can we de-stigmatize addiction?  This is a huge part of the solution.  It’s our responsibility to make sure addicts get treatment.  We must differentiate between addicts and criminals.  If you are an addict, you are not a criminal (well not by default). We find that when we share our experiences, others react by sharing theirs.  The more this happens, the more stigma reduces and the easier it is to change this perception that an addict, is a criminal by default. Connect with the Stigma Podcast in the following ways: Website, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Email Connect with host Stephen Hays here: Stephen Hays Personal Website, Twitter, LinkedIn,  What If Ventures (Mental Health Venture Fund)

Rogelio Plasencia joined The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018 as the manger of The Apollo Circle young patrons program. Before joining The Met, Rogelio was the Director of Membership for The Phillips Collection and oversaw the growth of their young patron program, the Contemporaries. He began his career in fundraising at the American Museum of Natural History, and has worked at various cultural institutions between New York and D.C., including El Museo del Barrio and The Smithsonian Institution. Rogelio earned his BS from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU with a major in Marketing, and minors in Art History and Latin American Studies. While at NYU he was and RA at Carlyle Court, and President of the Cuban American Student Association. Dan Barker joined Social Impact at BlackRock in 2018 and leads corporate grant making. Before joining BlackRock, Dan was a management consultant at Deloitte where he advised corporate, multilateral, and nonprofit clients on social impact strategy. Prior to Deloitte, Dan managed a number of public-private partnerships and policy initiatives focused on advancing economic development at Earth Institute. He began his career as a researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dan has published research with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Halcyon Incubator on outcomes based funding models and social enterprise. He holds a Masters in International Finance and Economic Policy from Columbia University and a BA in International Relations from NYU. While at NYU he was an RA at Gramercy Green and Greenwich Hotel and founded the International Relations Society. Dan and Rogelio have been married for six years.

This title is no joke... Elliot Roth is the founder of Spira- a company that genetically engineers spirulina for food ingredients. Spira has received awards from RebelBio, Lighthouse Labs, the World Food Programme, Halcyon Incubator, BeGreen, CommBeBiz, and National Science Foundation, and has presented at SXSW, Synbiobeta and Thought for Food. Elliot uses his genius inventions and scientific engineering of Spira to accomplish his purpose and passion in life- to solve physiological needs using simple biological design. Resources: Connect with Elliot further:  Facebook | Instagram  Email Elliot personally at: elliot@livespira.com Learn more about Spira! THANK YOU! Thanks again for listening to the show! If it has helped you in any way, please share it using the social media buttons you see on the page. Also, reviews for the podcast on iTunes are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show and I definitely read each and every one of them. Become part of the 25 Tribe! Learn more and apply for the FIRST ever EB25 Mastermind Retreat Join the OFFICIAL 25 Tribe Community!  Subscribe to the Entrepreneur Before 25 Podcast. Enter your email for regular emails from Chelann Gienger on how to live a life of freedom and balance while being a young entrepreneur. Follow @chelanngienger on Instagram! Know someone who needs to hear this episode? Take a second and share it! [DISPLAY_ULTIMATE_PLUS]

George talks with social entrepreneurship founder Kate Glantz who built Heartful.ly Registry, a wedding registry website where couples can raise money to help charities and non-profits. Kate, a Tory Burch Foundation fellow is director of DC Entrepreneur Initiatives at SEED SPOT and involved with Halcyon Incubator, and Vinetta Project. Kate speaks about her journey from serving in the Peace Corps in Tanzania to becoming an entrepreneur, navigating the DC Tech scene, and her take on failure vs success as a startup founder. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/georgeindc)

Ann Yang and Phil Wong, the co-founders of MISFIT Juicery, started their cold-pressed juice company in their dorm room at Georgetown University with a hundred pounds of peaches and a borrowed blender. A social venture, MISFIT transforms "ugly" fruits and vegetables into visually appealing, delicious juice that disguises its "misfit" origins while combating food waste. Through bootstrapping and a scrappy willingness to ask for help when they needed it, they managed to grow MISFIT into one of the hottest local food startups. After graduating from Halcyon Incubator, they secured funding from angel investors including the Dingman Center Angels, and are currently one of six food startups around the country accepted into the Chobani Food Incubator. In this episode, MISFIT founders Ann Yang and Phil Wong discuss the passion and tenacity required to run a social venture, the secrets of their strong branding strategy and the power of asking for help. 

August 18, 2014 - Read the full Your Mark on the World article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/1pWC5OA. The Halcyon Incubator is working to solve 21st century challenges by helping social entrepreneurs. Through a competitive process, social entrepreneurs pitch Halcyon for a spot in the three-stage incubator program. The first stage is residency, where fellows live and work at Halcyon surrounded by like-minded innovators in a collaborative setting. In the second stage, the fellows move out, but continue work at the Incubator, accessing strategic, legal and PR resources. In the final stage called the “incentivized phase,” the fellows transition to the WeWork Wonder Bread Factory building in Washington, D.C. at reduced rates, while still being able to access Incubator events and programming as they scale their venture. Halcyon is presently accepting applications for the next cohort.