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Tanay Tatum Edwards

CEO/FounderFreeCap

Biography

Tanay Tatum-Edwards is the founder and CEO of FreeCap Financial, Inc., a data provider of social justice investing criteria. Before FreeCap, she developed a lifelong commitment to using investment strategies to create systemic social change while working in asset management. Tanay has multiple loved ones impacted by mass incarceration and is committed to using her expertise to address it. Prestigious fellowships, including Echoing Green, Fulbright, Halcyon Incubator, and Roddenberry Foundation, have supported her work.

Tanay regularly shares insights from FreeCap’s research at events, including SOCAP, Confluence Philanthropy, and Yale University and her thought leadership has been spotlighted in major news outlets, including MarketWatch. A foodie, NBA fan, and lover of hip-hop, Tanay received an M.A. from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, where her classmates elected her commencement speaker, and a B.A. from Vassar College, where she served as student body president.