 Now for our faithful few who have remained with us all the way to the end We are going to bring a great panel. It's our tradition to have Penelope Douglas who's been on the board for Mission hub for quite a long time to emcee this panel of folks to reflect on what we've heard here at SoCAP and Appoint us to the future so Penelope and your team come on out That you're going to be welcomed by jets I believe Passionate audience I can tell and We're passionate about you so if you happen to want to move up to help us close this out feel free the This this closing session is going to be of course Interesting because of our extra sound effects But But what it always gives us a chance to do is to sort of think about where we're going and It it's a it's a chance to be a little personal together and to be a little bit reflective And I never quite know what I'm doing in this particular session until literally the morning of Of our session Including the fact that we were just joined by somebody on stage And I'll have to make sure that we all do good introductions. There may be others who join us who knows So by way of letting our Panel introduce themselves to you as fellow human beings. I'm going to have them that you've met them all already So I'm going to have them introduce themselves in a slightly different way And so starting with you I think Davida If the audience wants to get to know you a little bit better How would you tell them to get to know you by using a picture of you or a song? What would the song or picture look like Okay Well for those who I've had the opportunity to meet at SoCath over the last three days And I just spoke on a panel this morning It will come to no surprise to them that I've introduced myself as the daughter and granddaughter great-granddaughter deacons and Preachers so as a child I was Born and raised and set at the pulpit set at the foot in the pulpit of ministers So if you were to take anything away and remember me and what it would look like It would probably look like in a song if you can imagine being in a Baptist church And the choir Doing this grand entrance when the choir comes in to the church and the song that would probably Represent me in terms of my personal reflection and take away from SoCath Is this song called one step and as the choir marches in they sing this song is called one step All I have to do is take one step and he will do the rest It says if I take Just one step He will do the rest and that is a reflection of my experience here at SoCath Because sometimes I feel in Detroit that I'm alone and coming here to SoCath around all these Visionaries and around the people who share my same dream and the same mission I feel like God is putting people in my life That will allow me to pail and carry my mission forward, but all I have to do is take one step I knew DeVito was gonna set the bar fairly high for the rest of you Who wants to volunteer to go next Please sure I don't mind being a having a tough act to follow The song that came clear to me being here. It's one of the times that I never I feel more like a Representative in New York than anywhere like a fish out of water One of the things that I have here was that when I've been coming to every SoCath I'm mostly famous at SoCath for just showing up at SoCath. I've been giving awards for just showing up at SoCath So I used to call myself as I'm a SoCath groupie, but possibly considered a SoCath has a Kardashian That would be me. I'm just I'm just here But the one thing that I find is that in the West Coast vibe back in the classic East Coast West Coast culture I'm constantly having people say you are so New York. You are so New York So if we had just you know, I don't know let's say the Liza Manelli version of New York, New York playing behind me at every moment As I walked around the room. I mean, I've got the face already I've got the attitude I've got the thing but that would be my soundtrack that I would play here Fabulous I Hear it. I'm hearing it Who's next? I'll have to call on you Esther. All right This is Esther Park. Hi Well, I think for me the the thing that comes to my mind is the haystacks painting by Monet And I think of that big for a couple of reasons one is that You know, this marks It's it's an impressionist picture and Impressionism really broke the rules of its day when it came to art, you know Everything used to be very real and hard lines But impressionism really started to break the rules of what what was beauty and and and how you captured the feeling of a picture And I feel like with the tool of finance which often has the Hard lines and rules and and models around it. I like to think of myself as the Impressionist financier You know to take a very different view of how we do finance to blur the lines To break the rules and to create a new definition of beauty And so that's Beautiful picture and when we I ask you a few more questions as well This picture will become more beautiful because of your work Absolutely fantastic Kevin. I'm gonna let you go last, okay Right, okay, I have to go back to I mean I was grew up I'm a Buddhist now, but I grew up in the Baptist church And so those roots go very deeply so the so the River Jordan Comes to mind and sort of crossing the River Jordan and because I also Am into genealogy I can trace my roots to the plantation in Virginia where my ancestors came That has particular meaning. So in terms of relating to me, you know, I'm all about the underdog I'm all about challenges. I'm all about being victorious and all those that want to aspire that way We have something to talk about Another beautiful song Okay, Kev. Yeah Pictures I do think of pictures my pictures are up on Instagram at Kevin Doyle Jones But the pictures I find myself taking a lot are Turbulence on the edge of pattern flow So there's a little rough water and then what amazes me and I get real close in the river And there's a flow that is a consistent curved twisted thing, but it is soft and The flow is working and breaking apart and then on the edge. It's breaking into chaos. So That's the thing that I find really interesting and those of you who know Kevin personally know I think you're still doing you're doing a lot of you walk up the river, right? Yeah. Yeah hike up the river, right? So very intimate relationship to that picture. I suspect So I I want to Talk to you all about discovery and I want to talk to you If this is my best effort to segue from the prior Conversation, which of course I feel hopeless in doing well, but one of the prior Conversationalists said, you know, really it's about what can we do and so in that in that spirit each of you has a has a practice I want you to very briefly like in a sentence describe This is my work and then describe to me and to all of us if you can something you discovered here either it could be a gap you discovered or or a Place where the flow is happening. I'd rather you not sort of go I saw all these opportunities, but like let's let's talk about it kind of the way. I tried to tee it up just there so Esther you willing to go first. Mm-hmm. So what is your work? So my work is integrated capital for soil health and regenerative agriculture Simple and in terms of what I saw here I Think that there is a huge excitement going on for what is the potential For change because we are in pretty dire times right now And I don't need to you know reiterate what those what those times are like right now But that people are focused on solutions And so we need to create more solutions to address the changes that we need to see in this world So I'm very excited from you know just the energy that I've been getting from people around Looking for solutions and trying to be creative about what those are great When you think about your work and you think about leaving here is there a Is there a gap is there something where you're going but whoa holy smokes or say that more strongly You know here's something. I'm really gonna have to take care of is there something that comes to mind Yeah, I feel like we really need to find a way to support the individual investor Whether it's a high net worth person or whether it's not a high net worth person We need to find ways to support and activate more individual investors one of the things that if you look at history venture capital used to be Not an asset class before it was an asset class who was investing in venture capital It was individual high net worth individuals. So these are the people who are leading the change And I feel like we do not do enough to support these folks And so, you know, there's lots of people who have interest and they want change and they have the ability to lead change And so we need to support these folks with infrastructure and Deal flow and assistance. There's a lot of stuff that I think needs to be done there taking estrus lead Who'd like to go next? I'd like to could you deal flow is like that's the 500 5 million dollar or a billion dollar word that that really what got me here and probably on the stage here now is What we're trying to do what I'm trying to do now with the initiative that you might have heard called soda here Is that we're trying to hit all the friction points that are getting in the way of the deal flow that ultimately is what we'd like to see To jumpstart the so cap sector, right? I mean, that's the thing about impact investing there's there's no impact unless you get the investments and one of the things about being at so many so caps is that You know, I think I think so cap does its job It actually convenes and if you to plot at a strictly increasing number of the right people in the room and we all have the right conversations here but Synergy is not my favorite word, but I'm coming friendly with anti synergy when somehow the hole is less than the sum of its parts Because the other 362 days of the year we want to jumpstart it and we really want to see the deal flow So the deal flow issue that we're trying to hit the first resistance point. We're hitting we launched here Just two days ago, which is called the soda to data commons I'll give a shout out to Audrey Celian who I'm sitting in for because she's on a plane back to Switzerland as we speak But this was her brainchild and she brought me in as well. She's also a veteran of so cap from the initial one coming here So what we're trying to do is you know hit those pain points hit those friction points Shared data. We know was one of them. There's gonna be other ones to hit and we're looking forward to, you know Working with so cap and the discovery that I got from here is that we're not alone We weren't the only ones who've been beating our heads against the wall We've we've we've tapped into a frustration people who? Acknowledge that we could doing better. We would like to see more deals. It's that's they the size of the sector Could grow and that we know that the right people in the room are here now So even if we don't have all the right answers. We're asking the right questions in the right rooms To Vita. Yeah, so if I can follow up and what's your work? Oh, yeah So I would like to just take that thread through a bit. Thank you If so cap is the intersection of money and meeting They represent the money and I think I represent the And so my work is Detroit and I'm the co-director of a nonprofit organization called Food Lab Detroit and we through food bill community we are a Community of a hundred and sixty small locally owned food businesses in the city of Detroit and yes We provide the technical assistance in the incubation to help them start and sometimes grow and scale their business But at the end of the day what we really are a revolution is we are trying to redefine this economy So the economy in the city of Detroit can be more local could be more sustainable and More importantly can be more delicious and so Penelope I know that you indicated that we were going to move away a little bit from the last discussion But if I may take a moment, I feel inside of me Grace Lee Boggs was brought up in our last conversation and they talked about and Grace Lee died On Monday a hundred years old She was in the city of Detroit and I would be remissed if I did not bring a word from Grace Lee to the audience Today me being from Detroit. Thank you. And so Grace Lee said to us and in Detroit all of us who studied her She says unlike rebellions which erupts spontaneously and usually last only a few days revolutions revolutions require a patient and proactive process of two-sided transformational struggle Going beyond rejection to Projection they bring them to the historical stage human beings Who are practicing new more socially responsible and loving? Relationships not only to one another but to the earth and I guess what I'm taking away Penelope into my fatal panelist Back to Detroit with me that the revolution will be financed And and and thank you for helping me continue the conversation because I was I was so hopeful and and helpless and you just helped such a great deal Ed What is your work? Well? my work as I've mentioned before is Impact venture capital and I hope to help finance that revolution It's on record I Get it. I get any particular discovery or gap, you know one of the things that you know I felt here is that is that it's a struggle that's going on with all of us here and That's what's wonderful about so kept it allows a space for that struggle to happen and among Folks who you don't have to apologize for it in the process You don't have to apologize and so if I were to talk about a gap the gap is that you know You know, we're closing the gap. So cap is closing the gap We've got 2,700 people have been here today next year 5,000 that gap goes closer that that gap is Become smaller Kevin what's on your mind? Yeah, you know I as I sit here, you know, I think about myself as somebody from Mississippi as the editor of the Mississippi business journal as Jackson became a black majority city and and so I raised the Question on on the first day, you know, why is it that we're investing more in Africa than African-Americans? And we had a session last night. I really passionate Best five minutes is up on Facebook right now and part of the beat is riff and the conversation with Derek but afterwards this guy he's it works with the design school and And I just asked that question and he was asking it of himself He is it works with the design firm. He said, you know, we do community-centered human-centric design. It's really wonderful We're really active in Uganda and we're moving to Rwanda and and I said, you know But but I wonder why we aren't doing anything here in Oakland and and I just came back from Mississippi to where you know There was a wedding of some of the folks who are involved in public school the daughter and and you know, Mississippi racists are conscious and I realized that when this fellow said why is it he could not see why he wasn't and So with neighborhood economics, we want to accelerate the flow of capital into Marginalized neighborhoods and get folks who are not thinking about those neighborhoods acting in those neighborhoods and helping that guy with Asking the question, you know, why are we going to Rwanda and and not two blocks away to people, you know With whom have a similar disparity of wealth and he does not know how to answer that question in himself There's institutional racism that is not personal on the coast where it's personal and institutional in Mississippi Yeah, and and he just not able to answer that question, but the fact that he's asking it is good I want to you know, you keep talking to white folks and asking asking the question like why not? Who is your neighbor? Why are you acting that way? Right? That's what I want to do. I loved Ed's comment in the earlier panel too about like if you're inviting people into your house and Somehow you feel you have to rearrange your house for the person of color Maybe you ought to check yourself a bit that really stayed with me kind of the other side of Kevin What you're talking about we have we have a monitor that tells us off and on whether we have any time left at all or not But I think we have about two minutes And what I'd like to invite each of you to do we can all do the math about how much time each of you has As a farewell to your companions in the audience either choose a single word or the name of a person who right now Inspires you so it's a single word or The name of someone who right now right this minute is an inspiration to you Single word or an inspiration. I'm sure it's because I'm a geek hashtag collaboration collaboration I'll go with blindness the guy I talked to let's look at our blindness Yeah, I would say Gratitude because I'm grateful that we're having this conversation I agree Esther I'm gonna break your rule and do two words. I knew you're gonna do that Beautiful portfolio Yeah, okay, very nice So if I can't know I guess I'm gonna follow Esther's leading go with two words and my two words would be radical love radical love And anybody from the audience we have 52 seconds left So if you want to shout a word out to us just get up and shout it feel free Vision What else? Say it Empathy Wonder New systems two words excellent two words though Love Solidarity Revolution I was accused the other night of calling the the whatever it's called the dips dipsy pig They you know the shifty pig, and I know that that's a party place Any last word Action and I'm gonna close with one and with which I'm gonna ask Our colleagues to let Kevin and I welcome the rest of our board on stage if that's okay, Rosalie and my the word the last word Will be thank you