Jennifer Astone

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Jennifer Astone is a PhD and Principal at Integrated Capital Investing. As a financial activist, she works to transform philanthropic investing. She founded Integrated Capital Investing in 2019 to galvanize foundations and investors to move their funding, grantmaking, and leadership toward regenerative economies and healthy food systems. She served as executive director of the Swift Foundation, guiding its transitional investment portfolio for eight years. Jennifer is also a researcher, advocate, writer, and builder of solution-focused, community- and movement-led coalitions. She helped launch the Agroecology Fund and the Transformational Food Systems Investment Initiative. In addition, Jennifer is an Integrated Social Finance Capital Fellow at RSF. She earned her PhD in anthropology based on fieldwork on gender and agriculture in Guinea, West Africa.