"Decolonizing Wealth," author talk with Edgar Villanueva

What if wealth could be used to connect, heal, and restore? Edgar Villanueva, globally-recognized expert on social justice philanthropy and award-winning author of Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance, seeks to answer these questions in his bestselling book offering hopeful and compelling alternatives to the dynamics of colonization in the philanthropic and social finance sectors. 
 
Villanueva will speak via a Zoom lecture as part of the Center for Civic Engagement & Learning’s (CCEL) Social Change Series, which highlights monthly a different form of civic engagement that contributes to social change. November’s theme is “Philanthropy,” and Villanueva will offer strategies that attendees, particularly young people engaging in philanthropy and other social change processes, can utilize to combat systems of oppression and advance justice, reciprocity, and equity. The discussion is free and open to the public. Please check your CampusGroups reminder emails for Zoom connection details.

Event is co-sponsored by Lambda Eta Mu, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Master of Nonprofit Organizations (MNO) Program, Residence Life, Social Justice Institute, and Undergraduate Student Government.

Contact adrian.griffin@case.edu with questions.
 
About the author:
 
Edgar serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Native Americans in Philanthropy, NDN Collective, and is a Board Member of the Andrus Family Fund, a national foundation that works to improve outcomes for vulnerable youth.
 
Edgar also currently serves as Senior Vice President at the Schott Foundation for Public Education where he oversees grant investment and capacity building supports for education justice campaigns across the United States.
 
In addition to working in philanthropy for many years, he has consulted with numerous nonprofit organizations and national and global philanthropies on advancing racial equity inside of their institutions and through their investment strategies.
 
Edgar holds two degrees from the Gillings Global School of Public Health at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Edgar is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and resides in Brooklyn, NY.

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Co-hosted with: Lambda Eta Mu, Social Justice Institute, Office of Residence Life

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