Baz works at the intersection of race, crime, culture and justice. Specializing in American and African-American Studies, she earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is the Founding Academic Director of John Jay’s Prison-to-College Pipeline program. Baz’ books “Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture” (2008) and “Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World” (2016) were featured in the New York Times on National Public Radio (NPR) and CNN. Baz writes for the NY Times, LA Times and Wall Street Journal, also producing on-air segments for NPR.  Baz was named a 2017-2018 Global Fulbright Scholar and has been working to internationally replicate the Prison-to-College Pipeline, with a focus on the Caribbean and South Africa.

As a global thought leader in social and economic justice, Baz will help guide Green Chi and its partners in our mission to create and apply financial transparency to bring fairness and integrity to business and government  globally.

Amy is CEO of 9 Dots whose mission is to provide transformative computer science education for every student. 9Dots is a community of educators, researchers, and engineers committed to bringing computer science to all students-particularly those from underserved communities. 9 Dots believes in creating learning environments that engage every student, foster joy, and promote fearlessness in problem solving. 9 Dots aims to empower students by transforming the way they voice their ideas, understand their world and imagine their futures. 

As a former Microsoft and Yahoo! executive with deep experience in digital product development and platform building in the media space (MSN) plus a Masters in Education, Amy will be instrumental in continuing to evolve Green Chi’s vision and mission. 

Lisa is a financial industry and internet senior executive. Her over 28 years of experience  include inventing, building and running a disruptive capital raising and marketing platform, acting as director of marketing and capital raiser at multi billion dollar hedge funds, as well as a senior mortgage derivative specialist in institutional sales on the sell side.

Lisa is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Hedge Connection, the only patented marketing and relationship building platform for alternative funds and information aggregator for allocators.Hedge Connection grew out of a desire to create a legally safe ecosystem where private funds could promote their product and get access to qualified investors for a reasonable price efficiently.

Lisa’s expertise in alternative funds platform building, sales, marketing and relationship building and her financial industry-wide connection, will be invaluable to scaling the Green Chi platform