Racism is the soil in which deep disparities grow in the United States. Everything from the impact of diseases like COVID-19 (the life expectancy of Black Americans was cut by 2.7 years, compared to 0.8 …

Using Innovation to Solve the Child Mental Health Crisis Children’s mental health is a growing problem, exasperated by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, from 2007 to 2019, there was a 329% increase in pediatric emergency room visits for deliberate self-harm and a 60% increase in…

Investing in Value-Based Health Care Genius Guild is excited to announce an investment in Juno Medical, a value-based healthcare platform that centers chief medical decision-makers in families–often moms–with locations in urban communities around the country. …

Genius Guild’s core values are the foundation on which everything we do, including hiring new team members. I’m excited to welcome Tessa Flippin and Brian Laung Aoaeh as the new Venture Capitalists in Residence (VC-in-Residence) at the Fund. As VCs-in-Residence, Tessa and Brian provide high-level institutional investment experience to Genius…

As a Black geek, I’m excited to announce the Greenhouse Fund’s latest investment in Quirkchat (Quirktastic, Inc.) — a Black female-founded social application for anime fandom discussion. At the Greenhouse Fund, we value companies that take a creative approach to building authentic Black communities and Quirkchat does exactly that. In…

As a former epidemiologist and a black woman, I have first hand knowledge of the health challenges faced by women of color. Which is why I’m proud to announce Genius Guild’s Greenhouse Fund investment in Health In Her HUE (HHH) — an innovative company working to improve healthcare for women…

The day after Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States, I received a frantic text, and then call, from a white male friend who is the CEO of a very successful incubator. A lifelong New Yorker who was on a path to “wokeness”, he was deeply…

I’m leaving the nonprofit space. I’m leaving digitalundivided (although there’s a running joke that no one ever really leaves digitalundivided — we’re truly a family). Creating and building digitalundivided is one of the greatest honors of my life. I got to spend eight incredibly amazing (and incredibly hard) years working…

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” Theodore Roosevelt In honor of Doonie, I personally donated…