Superpowers for Good: Empowering Changemakers for Social Impact via Regulated Investment Crowdfunding from the SuperCrowd.

Devin: What is your superpower? Luni: I can see paradigms. Most people, they live inside paradigms, and they don’t notice. “Most people in Africa are farmers, and they’re poor not because they’re uneducated or any less intelligent than anyone else,” says Africa Eats founder and CEO Luni Libes. “They’re poor because no one buys their outputs. No one is buying what they’re growing.” As an investor,...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Joy: I believe my superpower is a commitment to show up. “Our mission here at the Be the Match is pretty simple. It’s to save lives through cellular therapy,” says Joy King, Chief Advancement Officer. “Our vision is equal outcomes for all.” “Every day, we recruit members to our registry. We call it the greatest waiting list in the world,” she says. “We wo...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? David: There’s a part of what I do, taking complex ideas, taking complex things and simplifying them and making them digestible. “When we looked at investment Crowdfunding, we saw a massive industry that was at its inception,” says Assurely CEO and co-founder David Carpentier, explaining the context for launching the company’s innovative directors and off...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Mo: A superpower would be just doing your best to help people in need. “My older brother suffered in a car accident in Morocco back in 2001,” explains University of Utah neuroscientist Mohammed “Mo” Sbai. “During the process of taking care of him between 2001 and 2007, when he passed away, I got to see firsthand the intricacies and the details and the har...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Andrew: It's a little bit of a shoot first, ask questions later kind of thing. “There are all these communities around the US that feel like they don't have economic development options, feel like there's resource scarcity, are lacking these things, or losing these stores both in urban areas and rural areas,” says Andrew Connor, founder and director of Th...

“HACE, or The Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement, is an organization that I am honored to lead,” says Patricia Mota. “Headquartered in Chicago, national in scope, its mission since 1982 has been to positively impact workplaces by cultivating the pipeline of Latino talent and providing the community the insight, the access and the support to be successful in their careers.” Since taking the r...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Christine: I would say it’s courage. Dr. Christine Lum Lung, CEO of Origin Healthcare, says up to 5 million people in the United States who are currently in the hospital could be treated at home more effectively and affordably. “We deploy the expert medical team, the equipment and the technology to patients in their homes so they can actually get all of t...

Devin: What is your superpower? Ben: I'm basically the most humble person you've ever met. (Laughs.) Saving the Great Salt Lake will require “a 30 to 50 percent reduction in our water use in the watershed,” says Dr. Ben Abbott, professor of ecology at Brigham Young University, one of the foremost authorities on the shrinking Great Salt Lake. This isn’t just a local problem. Not significantly tied...

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn a commission. Devin: What is your superpower? Adrienne: One of my superpowers is being able to have difficult conversations with people, being able to talk about issues and appreciate people’s discomfort and help them see them from a different vantage point so I can reach them. Unfortunately, our society is set up with a l...

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn a commission. Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Paul: I'm not sure I have a superpower, but I think if I if I have a superpower, it's I love to learn. Throughout my career—I tell people who think about getting a PhD, “What's the best thing about the career is you can change careers without changing jobs.” I have l...

I’m not a financial advisor; nothing I write in Superpowers for Good should be considered investment advice. You should seek appropriate counsel before making investment decisions. Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Ben: I think a real superpower when you're creating as an entrepreneur is being able to look at things, recombine them and create something new. We oftentimes think of somethin...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Steve: I’m a connector, but my superpower is, one of my associates said to me, “You’re not quite a connector.”  I said, “What?” He said, “You’re a weaver.” Weaver? I thought he called me weasel. He said, “No, you’re a weaver. Because what you do is beyond a connector role. You connect people, and you get things done.” Stephen Shaff, founder and CEO of Com...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Tawana: I genuinely care about people at their core. The 10K Project CEO, Tawana Rivers, is passionate about investing in the Black community. She sees it as a driver of wealth creation for both the investors and the entrepreneurs. The 10K Project is an association of investors actively working to back Black founders. Not only does this help to address th...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Craig: I played college basketball, and then I really didn’t know what I was going to do when I grew up. So I became a college basketball coach, and I was a very young head college basketball coach. I think my superpower is the ability to lead and motivate teams. I think that the ability to coach translated into business. As I look at my superpower, I thi...

Devin: What is your superpower? Jen: I think my superpower is finding the connections between things, meaning connections between different pursuits or different silos or different movements. Jen Risley of the American Independent Business Alliance , commonly abbreviated as AMIBA and pronounced like amoeba, joined me for a great conversation about the power of moving our money to deploy it locally...

Devin: What is your superpower? Paul: I’m a super-connector. Paul Zelizer is a coach and consultant to social entrepreneurs who also hosts the Awarepreneurs podcast. With hundreds of episodes under his belt, his show is one of the longest-running in the social enterprise space. “Awarepreneurs is the ‘How I Built This’ of social entrepreneurship,” Paul says, referring to the popular podcast by Guy...

Devin: What is your superpower? Susie: I think that I would say I feel that I'm an encourager. I feel like I've always been a very, very positive person. I definitely look at the positive sides of things, not in a Pollyanna style. I know reality, but I really like to encourage people to follow their bliss, to do what makes them happy. I have a hashtag, #LetsDoAllTheThings. I run Room Redux. I am g...

I’m not a financial advisor; nothing I write in Superpowers for Good should be considered investment advice. You should seek appropriate counsel before making investment decisions. I purchased shares in Raise Green. Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Jackie: My work ethic is really my superpower. Jackie Logan is the co-founder and CIO of Raise Green and one of my favorite humans. Her kindn...

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn a commission. Devin: What is your superpower? Esha: I think my superpower is tenacity. Over the years, Esha Chhabra and I have had a few opportunities to collaborate as journalists. When she shared a heads-up about her new book, Working to Restore , with me, I was thrilled to invite her to be a guest on the Superpowers for...

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn a commission. Devin: What is your superpower? Sheba: My superpower is taking a risk, so when I’m writing my poems, I try to leave it all on the paper or all on the stage. I take nothing with me. I tell all my secrets. Queen Sheba is the poet who founded Poetry vs. Hip-Hop Live! and its associated foundation to support LGBT...

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn a commission. Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Susan: I believe my superpower is storytelling and sharing stories. And the flip side of that, in order to have that superpower, I've had to learn the ability to listen and to listen really well. Susan Sloan is the author of A Seat at the Table: Women, Diplomacy, and...

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn a commission. Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Richard: My superpower is really easy. I have the gift of being able to find people. Richard Villasana has the superpower of a real superhero. He finds the parents of children who have been separated from them. One of his biggest customers is the US Federal Governmen...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Dilla: I sincerely think my ability to connect us all via the past is my superpower. Shermann “Dilla” Thomas was a member of the delegation invited by the Foreign Ministry to visit Israel last month. I was fortunate to be included in that roster. One of the trip's highlights was getting to know the remarkable, diverse group. Dilla is rapidly becoming a ci...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Jeff: I will say something maybe a little bit contrarian, which is that I actually think that the nuts and bolts of stuff is what matters. Jeffrey Robbins, a partner at Saul Ewing and syndicated columnist, was part of the guest impact creators delegation visiting Israel last month. We both concluded that the best part of the trip was the diverse compositi...

Devin: What do you think of as your superpower? Avi: I can’t stop. There’s no way. When I visited the Beit Dror LGBTQ youth shelter in Tel Aviv last month, it took me a while to appreciate that the most significant risk the kids faced was not emotional stress but actual threats to their lives. In some Arab-Israeli communities, honor killings are still an issue. During our visit, Avi Soffer, the op...