The program has three main pillars of work: enhancing investor decisions to integrate racial equity, expanding the BIPOC pipeline to the finance community, and achieving financial health for BIPOC entrepreneurs, households, and farmers.
BIPOC students, farmers of color, and investment decision-makers
From croataninstitute.org/staff-highlight-eva-mazura ↗Eva Mazura is an analyst at Croatan Institute where she supports our REEFS program.
Through this work, Eva works with BIPOC students, farmers of color, and investment decision-makers to integrate racial equity into financial and agricultural systems.
The program has three main pillars of work: enhancing investor decisions to integrate racial equity, expanding the BIPOC pipeline to the finance community, and achieving financial health for BIPOC entrepreneurs, households, and farmers.
I work on a variety of different programs, but I primarily work within Croatan's Racial Equity, Economics, Finance, and Sustainability (REEFS) Program. The program has three main pillars of work: enhancing investor decisions to integrate racial equity, expanding the BIPOC pipeline to the finance community, and achieving financial health for BIPOC entrepreneurs, households, and farmers.
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