Access and Opportunity
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Inspiring change through informed and inclusive innovation. On Access & Opportunity, host Carla Harris, Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley, explores the lived experiences of the people who face systemic inequities and sits down with founders, investors, developers, activists, and educators who are building a more equitable future today.
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Recent Episodes
S8E34 Pivoting Your Playbook (Encore)
We’re continuing to bring you the “Best of” Access & Opportunity by revisiting my 2021 conversation with NBA champion turned investor, Andre Iguodala. Andre isn’t just a four-time NBA champ and…
S8E33 Becoming Self-Made (Encore)
Today, we’re continuing to bring you the “Best of” Access & Opportunity by revisiting one of our favorite conversations, with Nely Galán. Nely embodies the ethos of Access & Opportunity.…
S8E32 The Snowball Effect of Student Debt (Encore)
Today, we’re revisiting our 2021 conversation with educator Betsy Mayotte to discuss how having the right information at the right time can make navigating the student financing industry more…
S8E31 Closing the Women's Sports Pay Gap (Encore)
Today, we’re revisiting Carla's 2022 conversation with Kara Nortman, a venture capitalist who started a National Women's Soccer League team, to make a playbook for all women’s sports leagues to win…
S8E30 Reaching Back to Help the Next Generation (Encore)
On this 2021 episode, we’re talking about the importance of reaching back to help others on their business journey and how alternative sources of investment can help women of color take their…
S8E29 Empowering Latina Innovators in Fashion & Retail
Latino Americans’ purchasing power hit $3.4 trillion in 2021, according to a report from the Latino Donor Collaborative, and is expected to account for over one-third of growth in apparel spending in…
S8E28 Broadening Access to Mental Health Care for Ethnically Diverse Students
Rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation among college students are at an all-time high. And while students of all backgrounds face similar levels of mental health challenges, ethnically…
S8E27 Creating Equity in the Music Industry
With advances in technology, the music industry is changing faster than ever. Streaming services add more than 100,000 new songs every day. In this environment, artists’ ability to market and…
S8E26 Diversifying the Pilot Pipeline
A 2022 analysis issued by consulting firm Oliver Wyman found a shortfall of 8,000 pilots in North America, or 11% of the total workforce. That gap is estimated to grow to nearly 30,000 by the end of…
S8E24 Who Gets to Make Video Games?
On this episode, we discuss the lack of representation in the video game industry, from the stories that get told in games to the people who get to make them. While gamers of color are more active…
S8E23 Black Women Entrepreneurs: Creating an Ecosystem
American entrepreneurship had been on a 40-year decline. But 2020 is the year that turned around; entrepreneurship is on the rise once again. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, aspiring…
S8E22 Black Women Entrepreneurs: Putting Community First
According to a 2021 report in the Harvard Business Review, 17% of Black women are in the process of starting or running new businesses, compared to 10% of white women and 15% of white men. For this…
S8E21 Leading to Execute: Mielle Organics’ Monique Rodriguez
An extreme funding gap exists for Black female entrepreneurs who, in 2021, received merely 0.34% of the total venture capital spent in the U.S. in the first half of the year, according to Crunchbase.…
S8E20 Narrowing the Disability Employment Gap
The barriers to entering and staying in the workforce are complex for disabled people, and magnified for disabled people with additional marginalized identities. This results in long term impacts to…
S8E19 Building Credit for Immigrants
A recent survey commissioned by Nova Credit found that nearly half of immigrants said a U.S. credit card is hard to obtain. Without a credit card or any type of credit history to their name,…
S8E18 Displaced Entrepreneurs: Supporting New Beginnings Away from Home
Around the world, over 80 million individuals are displaced according to the UN Refugee Agency, with many forced to flee their homes for prolonged periods of time due to protracted internal crises.…
S8E17 Closing the Women’s Sports Pay Gap
In May of 2022, the U.S. Soccer Federation agreed to a landmark deal awarding equal pay for the women and men of the US National Soccer teams. On this episode, we look at what this move means for…
S8E16 Real Estate Investing for All
In America, real estate investment has been the primary way for people to build wealth that they can sustain and pass down to their children. But the vast majority of those who get a piece of the…
S8E15 Empowering Tribes in the Fight Against Climate Change
Indigenous voices have been left out of the conversation around climate change, even though they are among the first to face the direct consequences of global warming due to their interconnectedness…
S8E14 Bringing Fresh, Healthy Food to Food Deserts
Too many people in the U.S., particularly those from communities of color, live in geographic areas that have little to no access to an affordable and adequate supply of healthy and fresh whole…
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Access and Opportunity has published 85 episodes since June 2018, covering topics in Business, Entrepreneurship.
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