As the Advisory Quality Assurance Manager, I help make sure that our global team of advisors have the tools they need to deliver consistent, meaningful trainings that build the capacity of agricultural businesses. With a background in international relations and MBA in social impact management, I have the opportunity at Root Capital to strengthen existing quality assurance processes while…

As the Senior Manager of Agribusiness Digital Transformation, Andrea supports the development, rollout, and strategy of Root Capital’s data platform for our client agricultural businesses. This role cuts across the organization, working closely with Advisory, Impact, IT, and others. Her team ensures that the evolving needs of internal users, clients, and key external stakeholders are translated into the platform’s…

As Chief External Affairs Officer, I work with external partners to match Root Capital’s mission with their own impact objectives. Together, my team ensures our global colleagues have the resources they need to transform rural communities. This work requires creative thinking and cross-cutting collaboration to engage philanthropists, impact investors, and others that are ready to have an impact. I’m…

As the Lending MEL Associate, I am responsible for coordinating quality assurance of incoming impact data for Root Capital loans and managing the impact monitoring of the organization’s Lending portfolio. Prior to Root Capital, I worked for the Grounds for Empowerment program at Emory University’s Social Enterprise Center and had the opportunity to help develop the Specialty Coffee Transaction…

As Manager of Strategy and Learning, I work across the organization to track our targets and ensure that our global team has the data and support they need to execute against our strategy. An ill-fated barista career in college grew into an interest in coffee production. A year-long research project into that value chain brought me around the globe…

At Root Capital, Chris leads strategies for building high impact partnerships with corporations, corporate foundations as well as other philanthropic partners. The issues faced by Root Capital and the farming communities we support are complex and urgent, and Chris feels privileged to serve as a bridge between our work on the ground and the community of supporters and allies…

I am the go-to guy for reporting, coordinating between our field staff and grant management team to ensure that our funders receive timely, accurate updates on the work they support. Prior to joining the Root Capital team, I worked as a supports navigator for a social services provider in Minneapolis that focused on connecting the city’s Latino communities with…

After leaving my native southern California to pursue an M.B.A. at Boston University, I joined Root Capital as a fellow—and never left. Having worked previously for both the Rainforest Alliance and a small coffee roaster in Santa Barbara, I love being able to merge my finance background with my twin passions for coffee and environmental and social justice.

When Melissa was in college in my native upstate New York, she had a professor who fostered her budding interest in financial inclusion. A few years later, she learned about Root Capital’s model at a conference, and was fascinated and inspired by our approach to impact. She’s grateful for the opportunity to contribute to Root Capital’s mission by strengthening our…

After a foray into the NGO world that took me from hospital ships in Madagascar to disaster recovery in Nepal to volunteer firefighting in the Pacific Northwest, I’m excited to join the Root Capital team as IT Systems Administrator. I oversee all levels of technical support for the Cambridge and Africa offices, including the administration of cloud-based systems, user…