Black Women’s Wealth Alliance (BWWA) is a Historically Black owned and led institution lending itself as anecessary asset and eco leader created by and for Historical Black Women. We provide critical wealth education & services, business technical support, professional development, and financial assistance to strengthen the capacity of Black Women to build generational wealth. Since 2014 we have served over 4,000 Black women, provided over $1,300,000 in small capacity grants and facilitated $780,000 in lending.BWWA strengthens the pulse of the movement and momentum for the economic advancement and success of Black Women- which in turn strengthens the community. We create economic space that recognizes, celebrates, and uplifts the aspirations of Historical Black Women. BWWA’s work is led through a gender, cultural and financial trauma lens rooted in the Black economic experience and reality of living in North America. BWWA leverages the financial power, opportunity, and responsibility of historical Black women to create wealth mindsets, behaviors, and structures to build, grow and retain Black generational wealth.McKnight-Ahad Recognized in the region and community, I was a candidate for the 5th Ward Minneapolis City Council seat and the first African American in Minnesota to serve as a Met Council appointee to the Transportation Advisory Board. On that Advisory Board, I operated as a regional equity leader focused on transportation policy, finance, planning, research and community engagement from local to national levels.Honored to have garnered several awards and honors including LISC Fellow, a Hubert H. Humphrey Policy Fellow, a Bush Fellow, a NorthStar Cooperative Fellow, and an Alafia Fellow. In 2019, I was dual honored as a Minneapolis & Saint Paul Business Journal “Top Woman in Business” and a Finance & Commerce “Top Woman in Finance.” I was recognized by the Minnesota Black Chambers of Commerce as one of 100 top leading Black women in MN and recently recognized by Fearless Commerce magazine as a fierce Black woman business leader. I am also a 2020 Integrated Capital Institute Fellow.