Jessica Norwood

Jessica Norwood is the founder of the Runway Project, a financial activist, and social entrepreneur who was awarded the Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship for Economic Disruption. An immediate past fellow of RSF Social Finance Integrated Capital, Jessica speaks worldwide on the intersection of culture and investing, emerging leadership, community investing and African American wealth creation. Featured in Essence magazine, NPR, Next City, and Fast Company, Jessica is a lifelong fellow of the...See more

Jessica Norwood is the founder of the Runway Project, a financial activist, and social entrepreneur who was awarded the Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship for Economic Disruption. An immediate past fellow of RSF Social Finance Integrated Capital, Jessica speaks worldwide on the intersection of culture and investing, emerging leadership, community investing and African American wealth creation. Featured in Essence magazine, NPR, Next City, and Fast Company, Jessica is a lifelong fellow of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and Southern University College of Business, as well as the Political Power Fellow of the Hip Hop Archive at the Hutchinson Institute of Harvard University. See less