A group of local alternative finance experts is getting together tonight for the first time to talk about how to leverage the power of public money to break the power Wall Street has on local communities.
Dianne Freany is a self-described reformed investment banker. She is agitating the Oregon State Investment Board to pull state pensions from hedge funds and invest public money in local institutions—including affordable housing.
Freany is inviting her neighbors over for a potluck and listening to last month’s Ted Talk at Mt Hood Community College by Rukaiyah Adams, an African American woman born and raised in Northeast Portland who is also floating new ideas on how the Investment Board does business.
Freaney says the people have the power, it’s just a matter of taking it back.
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