09/14/2019
5 more days till NY+ Acumen presents: Exploring Gender-Lens Investing! Learn more about one of our amazing panelists, Kelley Henry!
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Kelley Henry is the Executive Director of the SoGal Foundation, the largest global platform for diverse entrepreneurs and investors with 40 chapters across 5 continents. She leads the global expansion of this 100k+ person network with the mission to close the diversity gap by providing resources, education, and community to underrepresented entrepreneurs worldwide. Breaking barriers while building community, culture, and understanding and serving people thoughtfully and inclusively is her personal and professional passion. She has years of experience in thoughtful people management, brand construction, and communication strategies, with an affinity for and focus in D&I. Prior to SoGal, Kelley worked with enterprise startups on the platform team at Work-Bench Ventures, where she led post-investment services, built the fund’s diversity & inclusion strategies, led 200+ annual events, and was Editor-in-Chief of the prominent weekly newsletter focused on enterprise trends in New York. Prior to that she spent time on various early startup teams as a Talent Manager and Project Manager in NYC, Chicago, and Austin, Texas. Kelley serves on the board of The Seeing Place Theatre; she is also an artist, writer, University of Texas alumni, and MBA Candidate at NYU's Stern School of Business.
