Pathways to Capital

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Camron Doss

Director, Milken Institute Finance
Camron Doss is a transformative senior leader with more than 30 years of specialized experience in strategic planning, stakeholder relations, external affairs, corporate communications, community and economic development, and business operations. At the Milken Institute, Doss leads the Initiative for Inclusive Entrepreneurship.

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Angelina Fung

Director, Milken Institute Finance
Angelina Fung is a director at Milken Institute Finance. She leads the Inclusive Capitalism portfolio, which focuses on reshaping financial markets to promote long-term value creation that benefits all stakeholders.
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Alexander Meeks

Director, 10,000 Communities Initiative, Milken Institute Finance
Alexander Meeks is a director at Milken Institute Finance. He focuses on helping communities accelerate resilient disaster recovery and adapt to extreme weather events.

Pathways to Capital

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Talent and good ideas are ubiquitous, but our financial systems concentrate capital and opportunity in certain geographies and networks. Financial systems should expand opportunity, not limit it.

Pathways to Capital is transforming how capital reaches people and communities across nearly all 50 states, enabling them to build, grow, and thrive.

The initiative builds on the Milken Institute’s long-standing commitment to fostering equitable access to capital, strengthening the financial industry talent pipeline, supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses, and driving sustainable economic development.

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Rachel Halfaker

Director, 10,000 Communities Initiative, Milken Institute Finance
Rachel Halfaker is a director at Milken Institute Finance. Halfaker works on the public finance and resilient infrastructure work which focuses on identifying innovative partnership and financing models for the public finance field and emerging investment strategies for resilient infrastructure.
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Savannah Richardson

Senior Associate, Public Finance, Milken Institute Finance
Savannah Richardson is a senior associate for Milken Institute Finance at the Milken Institute. Richardson works within the Excellence and Equity in Public Finance Program, supporting the Community Infrastructure Center platform and the CFO Forum programming.
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Rachel Reilly

Senior Director, Milken Institute Finance
Rachel Reilly is the founder and CEO of Aces & Archers, a strategic advisory and consulting firm focused on addressing socioeconomic inequality by reimagining traditional models for economic growth and private investing.
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Melanie Schwartz

Associate Director, Milken Institute Finance
Melanie Schwartz is an associate director with Milken Institute Finance and has a background in African and emerging markets, strategic communications, and international development. Schwartz works within the Institute’s Inclusive Capitalism program and proudly supports the program’s various initiatives designed to progress diversity, equity, and inclusion in the financial sector.
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Sarah Ortner

Associate Director, Public Finance, Milken Institute Finance
Sarah Ortner is an associate director with Milken Institute Finance. She focuses on the Institute’s Excellence and Equity in Public Finance initiatives, with a portfolio that includes climate resilience, community infrastructure deployment, and emerging markets.
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Blair Smith

Senior Director, Milken Institute Finance
Blair Smith is senior director at Milken Institute Finance, with more than 20 years of financial services and capital markets experience. He leads the Access to Capital and strategic innovative financing initiatives to enhance economic and social impact.