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Edgar Villanueva

  • Founder and CEO of Decolonizing Wealth Project & Liberated Capital
  • Best-Selling Author of 'Decolonizing Wealth'
  • Expert on the Intersection of Race, Power, and Wealth
  • Globally Recognized Activist

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Edgar Villanueva is an award-winning author, activist, and expert on issues of race, wealth, philanthropy, and ESG Investing. Villanueva is the Founder and CEO of Decolonizing Wealth Project & Liberated Capital and author of the bestselling book Decolonizing Wealth (2018, 2021). He advises a range of organizations including national and global philanthropies, Fortune 500 companies, and entertainment on social impact strategies to advance racial equity from within and through their investment strategies. 

 

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Talks & Conversations with Edgar Villanueva

The intersection of race, power, and wealth

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Community and human-centered corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social impact (SI).

Edgar’s Seven Steps to Healing from Decolonizing Wealth (applied to both organizations and individuals)

Climate change & sustainability

Food and land sovereignty

Employee Resource Group (ERG) engagement

Indigenous and other communities of color power building

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Books by Edgar Villanueva
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance

Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance

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Press & Media
A Call to Modernize American Philanthropy - New York Times
Changing the field of philanthropy - Marketplace.org
How to Support Indigenous Organizers Fighting Coronavirus in Native American Communities - Teen Vogue
The unbearable whiteness of American charities - Vox
Trump May Be Gone (Almost) But Toxic Masculinity Is Here to Stay - Advocate
Money as Medicine - Stanford Social Innovation Review
Healing From Colonization on Thanksgiving and Beyond - Yes Magazine
Responding To This Year Of Reckoning With Generosity - Worth Magazine
MacKenzie Scott’s philanthropy is admirable. But why is it possible? - The Washington Post
For philanthropy, racial equity isn't enough: Why we've moved to redistribution to address the racial wealth gap - Philanthropy News Digest
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Biography

Edgar Villanueva is an award-winning author, activist, and expert on issues of race, wealth, philanthropy, and ESG Investing. Villanueva is the Founder and CEO of Decolonizing Wealth Project and Liberated Capital and author of the bestselling book Decolonizing Wealth (2018, 2021). He advises a range of organizations including national and global philanthropies, Fortune 500 companies, and entertainment on social impact strategies to advance racial equity from within and through their investment strategies.

Villanueva holds a BSPH and MHA from the Gillings Global School of Public Health at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe and resides in New York City.

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