Michelle Arévalo-Carpenter

Michelle is Executive Director for Strategy and Content at SOCAP Global, the largest impact investing convening, connecting a global community every year in San Francisco. She is also the co-founder and General Partner at IMPAQTO Capital, an impact investment fund for the Andean region.

Before her current roles, Michelle spent 10 years as the CEO and co-founder of IMPAQTO, a B Corporation serving thousands of change makers a year with a mission to support impact entrepreneurs reach their goals by building the ecosystem and network they need to thrive. Michelle is a recent mother of twins, and is married to tech and climate entrepreneur and writer Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo. They live in Quito, the place they have chosen as their home. She holds an Mst in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford and a Master's in Public Policy, UC Berkeley.

"Collaboration across sectors is the key to unlocking innovative solutions for sustainability. By working together, we can tackle systemic issues with the combined wisdom and resources of many, paving the way for a brighter future. Facilitators of multi-stakeholder collaborations are the unsung heroes who weave together diverse voices and perspectives, creating the harmony needed to tackle the most complex, systemic problems we face collectively."

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