Joan Bavaria Award Ceres and Trillium Asset Management congratulate the 2022 Joan Bavaria Award winner: Napoleon Wallace Napoleon Wallace is the Co-Founder of Activest, a fiscal justice research and investment advisory firm. He is also the Co-Founder of Partners in Equity NC, an investment fund focused on supporting owner- occupied commercial real estate for Black- and women-owned businesses. With more than 20 years of experience in finance and community economic development, Napoleon has led and supported numerous successful impact efforts within private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Most recently, Napoleon served as the Deputy Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Commerce. Over the course of his career, he has served as a Social Investment Officer at the Kresge Foundation, on the executive staff at Self-Help, as the turnaround CEO for two troubled CDFIs, and as an investment banker with Wells Fargo Capital Markets. Napoleon is a native of rural eastern North Carolina, the proud son of a teacher and a small-business owner..
About the Joan Bavaria Award Joan Bavaria was a pioneer of social investing, using her vision and passion to help catalyze change in the capital markets. She dedicated her life to exploring and developing all means of so- cial investing and to educating and motivating other investors. Among other endeavors, she founded Trillium Asset Management and Ceres. Her influence is still reflected by their efforts today. In 2008, Ceres and Trillium Asset Management created the Joan Bavaria Award. The award is presented annually to recognize a unique investor or NGO leader who is working to transform the capital markets into a system that balances economic prosperity with social and environmental concerns.
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