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Why Access to Capital and Financial Knowledge are Essentials to Building Wealth

On the second episode of The Great Wealth Divide, we discuss how inadequate access to investment capital, financial education, mentorship, banking, and credit have all contributed to creating a significant disadvantage for Black and Latinx families.

The episode will present programs and solutions which are being applied to reverse these historic disadvantages. Host Dale Favors will be discussing these issues and solutions with the following subject experts:

  • Jill Johnson: CEO, Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership (IFEL)
  • Kenneth Ebie: Executive Director & Chief Development Officer, Black Entrepreneurs, NYC (BE NYC)
  • Joseph Leitmann-Santa Cruz: Executive Director- Capital Area Asset Builders (CAAB)
Dale Favors is an inspirational sales coach and strategic business leader. He spent 26-years as a financial professional working in sales and sales management for firms such as Morgan Stanley, Bloomberg, Royal Bank of Canada, Piper Jaffray and Thomson Reuters, where he built relationships with some of the world’s largest hedge funds, asset managers, corporations, and public pension plans.