Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative Releases New Episode from its Groundbreaking Podcast ‘Black Wealth Unlocked’
The podcast’s second episode includes a conversation on the concept of Black wealth and its significance for the Black community.
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Oct. 5, 2023
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ATLANTA — Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative (AWBI) released the second episode of its new groundbreaking podcast, Black Wealth Unlocked. The latest episode, “Black Wealth Unlocked: Strategies for Advancing Economic Justice and Liberation,” brings together host Dr. Janelle Williams, CEO and Co-Founder of AWBI, and guest Dr. Alex Camardelle, AWBI VP of Research and Policy for a thought-provoking conversation on how wealth equates to freedom and liberation, along with the role that data and public policy plays in shaping Black wealth outcomes.
With a focus on the structural determinants of Black community wealth, AWBI aims to dismantle systemic racism and empower individuals to live freely. They discuss the power that transforming the economic landscape and protecting democracy has in the struggle to build Black wealth, while emphasizing the need for race explicit solutions to combat historic discrimination.
Janelle and Alex also explore the dynamic and diverse meaning of Black wealth, and how it is vital to create better outcomes for Black communities. Through this episode, discover how Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative is working towards building Black wealth by amplifying community voices, challenging policymakers and philanthropy, and rewriting existing policies and practices.
Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and be sure to watch the full episode on YouTube here.
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About Black Wealth Unlocked
Black Wealth Unlocked aims to explore and celebrate the power of Black wealth, sharing stories, insights, and strategies for building and unlocking economic prosperity within Black communities.
In each episode, we will dive deep into conversations with thought leaders, entrepreneurs, financial experts, and community activists who are making waves in the Black wealth movement. We will explore topics like entrepreneurship, generational wealth, financial literacy, real estate, and much more.
About Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative
Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative (AWBI) is a catalytic nonprofit that seeks to achieve shared prosperity by building Black wealth through community wealth building strategies. We are a community of investors, advocates, and activists working to transform systems and structures of capital to create opportunities to build Black wealth in Atlanta and across the South. We promote an understanding of community wealth-building strategies to cultivate the engagement, capacity, and leadership necessary to shape a new economic narrative.
By challenging systemic bias and introducing new systems and structures of capital, AWBI aims to re-engineer and redesign Atlanta’s economic ecosystem such that all sectors, from small businesses to large corporations, to anchor institutions, philanthropy, nonprofits and government, consider day to day how to integrate the economic well-being of our most disenfranchised families and communities into their strategy and operations.