Kate Poole

Kate Poole is an anticapitalist investment advisor who co-founded Chordata Capital with Tiffany Brown in 2018. Chordata Capital supports investors in moving money off of Wall Street into community investments that center racial and economic justice. An anticapitalist wealth management firm with a commitment to support clients in redistributing rather than continuing to accumulate wealth, Chordata believe that investing in racial justice requires taking deep shared risks. They seek to support folks in investing in community-controlled loan funds and emergent solidarity economy investments that are higher risk and require a longer term investment.

Kate has worked in the local investing ecosystem since 2009, and became a member of Resource Generation in 2013. She co-founded Regenerative Finance in 2014 to organize other inheritors to shift control of capital to frontline communities. She has served on the board of the New Economy Coalition since 2018.is a leader of Regenerative Finance, a collective of young people with wealth working to shift control of capital to communities most affected by racial, economic and climate injustices. Regenerative Finance is framing investments as reparations, moving investors to shift both capital and power to radically-inclusive, non-extractive, community-controlled funds. She is also a member-leader of Resource Generation, working with the Philadelphia chapter to redistribute land, wealth and power.

Kate Poole started her work in the new economy field at the Schumacher Center of New Economics, and went on to work with author Michael Shuman to create accessible, concrete resources for folks developing and growing their own local economies. She continues to organize and invest in her local economy in Philly. In addition to radical investing and investor organizing, Poole creates comics and zines about Buddhist economics, Jewish economics, racial justice and wealth redistribution, and the intersection of economic and spiritual practice. Her comics have been published in Jewish Currents, Tikkun Daily, Jewschool, and Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf.