As Chief Executive Officer of the REDF Impact Investing Fund (RIIF), Carrie is responsible for executive leadership, fund strategy, raising capital, and building a team of catalytic finance professionals. Under her leadership, RIIF was certified as a Community Development Financial Institution, raised more than $11 Million in capital, and invested in a portfolio of 30+ social enterprises which have employed more than 30,000 people facing systemic and institutional barriers to work. The fund was named Emerging Impact Manager by Impact Assets and a Transformative 25 Fund Manager by Integrated Capital Investing for its commitment to racial equity and economic inclusion and efforts to de-bias underwriting to social enterprises.
Carrie’s career in inclusive finance spans over two decades of executive leadership, investment and operating roles in international development finance, and policy at the Inter-American Development Bank Group and U.S. Treasury. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Carrie holds an MA in International Economics with a concentration in Finance from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Carrie has been featured in media outlets including Forbes and Real Leaders of Impact Investing and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Better Future Forward and Ignite Capital and serves as an advisor to the Commonlands Development Trust.
She lives in Southern California with her family.