Four Alumni Perspectives: Lessons from the Racial Justice Journey

All are invited to a candid panel discussion and conversation with Black Columbia Business School alumni who will share their perspective and lessons learned from their journey on the fight for inclusion and racial equality.

Alia McCants has been fighting systemic inequity for the entirety of her career, spending 15+ years in education before recently moving to launch the social impact work at Peloton. Alia is a practical optimist who believes that we can dismantle white supremacy and create racial equity in our lifetimes.

Elliott Robinson is a rarity in the VC space and is one of a handful of Black venture capitalists who can write a check larger than $5 million and is the only Black investing partner who is part of a Sand Hill Road fund. Elliott is critical of insincere, optic driven diversity efforts, which he has called ‘Diversity Theater’ and is a co-founder of BLCK VC.

Jen Randle played a leading role in implementing an anti-bias program for 175,000 people across 8,000 stores, when in 2018, she helped guide Starbucks response after a racial 2018 incident in one of their Philadelphia stores. Jen wants to reframe the current thinking around DEI where leaders move from a scarcity mindset toward one of abundance.
 
Rendel Solomon stepped away from his Managing Director role at a $1.2 billion private equity fund, in part, so that he could speak out more forcefully about racial injustice.  Rendel believes that we need to reimagine capitalism and move towards stakeholder capitalism to try to eliminate the oppression of individuals from marginalized communities. 
 
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