Advisory Board
Charles L. Greene II
Charles, known to most as Chuck, has spent most of the past 30 years working as a strategist, helping organizations define their unique reason for being so they can tell their stories to the world. A former vice president of Mount Holyoke College and Group Vice President at Digitas, Chuck has worked with global brands such as Nike, Ben and Jerry’s, and Nortel Networks as well as public health brands such as the anti-smoking focused, Truth Campaign. Each of his clients has benefited from his clear approach to focusing on what is important, true and defining.
At the center of much of his work has been an abiding passion for the lives of children. Early in his career his work focused on education reform and early childhood education before becoming an expert on public health marketing and communications as the strategy lead for the country’s most successful youth focused anti-smoking campaign.
For the past decade he has worked tirelessly as a senior administrator and branding expert in secondary schools and higher education, continuing to pursue his commitment to the education of young people.
Chuck is a graduate of Harvard University with an AB in Government, and the Boston College Carroll School of Management, with an MBA. He is also an avid singer songwriter, dedicated cook, father, husband and dog owner who currently resides in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Meesha Brown
Meesha Brown is President of PCI Media, a global leader in using media of all kinds—from comic books, to talk shows, to television series—for social education. As the first woman and person of color to lead PCI Media, she is passionate about ensuring that PCI Media’s work fully embodies the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. She manages its program portfolio across 40 countries, 30 languages, and numerous partners on issues including immunization, nutrition, violence against women and children, and climate resilience. PCI Media consistently receives awards for its work.
In 2015, for MCI Media she produced #ISurvivedEbola, a global public health campaign using story telling in many forms of media. The campaign saved lives by empowering over 10 million people to take measures to protect themselves and others from contracting the deadly Ebola virus.
She began her professional career in public education. During her tenure as Director of Literacy for New York City Public Schools, she led changes in education policy that impacted outcomes for 1.1 million students. Meesha then worked with national organizations and state departments of education to scale the implementation of the more effective teaching techniques she had developed. She sits on the Boards of Calvert Impact Capital, the David and Dovetta Wilson Scholarship Fund, and Reimagine.
She holds a B.A. in Education with a Specialization in Reading from the University of Texas and studied in the Urban Policy MS program at the New School. Meesha is one of 11 children from West Texas and has experienced first-hand the transformative power of education from a place of love, not loss. She is dedicated to the work of sharing this gift with all people.
John Pileggi
John Pileggi serves as the Chief Investment Officer and President & CEO of the RIA subsidiary of Uncommon Giving Corporation, a digital platform to catalyze generosity. Mr. Pileggi has more than 30 years of experience as an operating executive in the financial services industry. Mr. Pileggi was the Managing Member of RangeEagle Strategies LLC, a New York–based registered investment adviser. He was previously Chief Executive of Manifold Fund Advisors, LLC and Managing Partner of American Independence Financial Services LLC, each an investment manager and sponsor of mutual funds and separately managed accounts. He also served as President & CEO of ING Mutual Funds and CEO of ING Investments Products Distribution, and before that as Senior Managing Director & Board Member of Furman Selz LLC, a NYSE member firm.
Rebecca Adamson
Rebecca Adamson, a Cherokee economist, is the Founder and President of First Peoples Worldwide. A leader, activist, and ground-breaking indigenous woman, Rebecca holds a distinct perspective about how indigenous people’s systems thinking can transform business models of today, and how wisdom and paradigms of indigenous economics and the advocacy and engagement of corporate social responsibility can be used to catalyze change. A featured TEDMED speaker in 2014, Rebecca uses finance and market-based strategies to take on global giants and win. Recently, Rebecca served as an executive consultant to Royal Dutch Shell, Vale INCO and Hess Oil.
At First Peoples Worldwide, Ms. Adamson leads one of the only indigenous-led international organizations guided by on-the-ground indigenous priorities for restoring the relationship between the sustained stewardship of resources and their sustainable productivity. She founded First Nations Development Institute in 1980 to create the first microenterprise loan fund, first tribal community bank, and first Native community credit union in the United States. As a trustee of Calvert Funds, she played the key role on the team by acquiring the funding necessary to create the Calvert Foundation, now known as Calvert Impact Capital. It established the market mechanism, Community Notes, for individuals to invest directly into low-income community development financial institutions (CDFI). Today, over $2 billion has been loaned by it to reduce poverty around the world.
She established the Indigenous Peoples Working Group of the Social Investment Forum and launched the Indigenous Peoples Rights Investment Criteria used by all the premiere social investment research firms. Rebecca founded the Native Americans in Philanthropy and the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples. Recently she co-authored the award-winning book “The Color of Wealth: Story Behind the US Racial Wealth Divide.” Over the past two decades, Rebecca has received the Schwab Social Entrepreneur Award, the John Gardner Civic Leadership Award, the National Women’s History Recipient and numerous other awards for her work with Indigenous Peoples. Rebecca holds an M.S. from Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire, and honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College.
Jenn Pryce
Jenn Pryce is President and CEO of Calvert Impact Capital. For nearly a quarter of a century, Calvert Impact Capital has strived to make markets work for more people, and more often, by investing in communities overlooked by traditional finance. Calvert Impact Capital invests through organizations that on-lend to people and businesses in the US and over 120 countries. In 2019, the organizations in their portfolio provided more than $5 billion to finance everything from solar panels in Tanzania and small businesses in Texas.
Over the past decade, Jenn has shaped the strategic direction of Calvert Impact Capital to focus on innovation, sustainability, and grow ng to scale. Under her leadership the organization has expanded the sectors it works in, developed new products and services, and committed to sharing their knowledge and expertise with the field on key topics like gender lens investing. Calvert Impact Capital remains committed to ensuring impact investing is accessible to all investors, large and small. It has worked with more than 20,000 individuals, institutions and advisors to raise more than $3.0 billion since its founding.
Jenn began her career in the Peace Corps where she taught math in Gabon. She then worked as an equity research analyst for Neuberger Berman and on the investment banking team at Morgan Stanley’s London office before joining The Public Theater in New York City and leading the Washington DC regional office for the Nonprofit Finance Fund. Jenn studied engineering at Union College and holds an MBA from Columbia University. She currently serves as a Forbes contributor, a lecturer at Oxford Saïd School of Business and the Advisory Board Chair of Quantified Ventures.
Dr. Richard F.H. Kirk
Dr. Richard F. H. Kirk has been in private psychiatric and medical practice for the last fourteen years in his hometown of Sonoma, CA. When in the Air Force he ran a mini-medical school to train medics to be physicians’ assistants. This led him to like the people part of medicine more than the diseases and medicines. He has just retired, is a passionate environmentalist, and is deep student of the psychosocial patterns of democracies and autocracies.
John Guffey
John Guffey is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, majoring in economics and finance. In 1976, he co-founded the Calvert Group, Ltd., a mutual fund company based in Washington, DC. that in 1982 launched the first family of socially responsible (ESG) mutual funds now with $30 billion in assets. In 1989, with Rebecca Adamson, Terry Mollner, and Wayne Silby, he co-founded the Calvert foundation, Calvert Impact Capital, that has raised and loaned over $2 billion to low-income communities around the world. Since retiring as president of Calvert in 1987, he has been involved in impact venture capital and other non-profit enterprises. He is currently president of Aurora Press, Inc., a Santa Fe based publisher of trade paperback books on spirituality, alternative health, and astrology. He continues to serve on the board of the Calvert Funds and is a director emeritus of Calvert Impact Capital.