I am a woman. I am Black. I am an American. I am an immigrant. I am an investor. We are Impact America.

KESHA CASH

Founder & General Partner

Kesha is passionate about helping the next generation of founders navigate the challenges that inevitably arise when building a business—even when the idea is great, the model is strong, or funding is abundant. She was recently named one of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People in Business" and is the subject of a Stanford Graduate School of Business case study on forming a successful impact venture capital firm. She has nearly a decade of experience in impact investing; at Jalia Ventures, a $5 million fund that she co-founded with Josh Mailman, she made seed investments in mission-driven companies including Red Rabbit, Schoolzilla, and ConnXus. She was also an investment associate at Bridges Ventures in the UK. Prior to this, Kesha worked as an operational consultant to small businesses in inner-city Los Angeles and as a mergers and acquisitions analyst at Merrill Lynch. She currently serves as a board member for CareAcademy, a venture council member for HealthTech 4 Medicaid, and an advisory board member for the Campbell Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia University.

FUNMI GARRICK

Finance and Operations

Funmi is a finance professional with an extensive background in investment fund operations. She joined IAF in 2024 to continue the build out the firm’s operational infrastructure and lead the strategy and execution of its finance functions. Prior to joining Impact America Fund, she worked as an outsourced CFO at IQ EQ providing advisory services to investment firm clients. She oversaw fund launches, managed operations, third party administrators and reporting. She also provided guidance to investment managers on industry best practices. Prior to IQ EQ, she worked in Investment Fund Administration where she managed multiple client relationships and projects. Funmi is a licensed CPA. She received her B.A. in Accounting and Finance from London South Bank University.

DAVID CLARK GUILLERMO

Investments

David loves diving into the numbers and strategic narrative behind startup growth. He first joined IAF in the summer of 2024 as a Mosaic Fellow with Impact Capital Managers before returning full-time the following year. David’s interest in impact investing is rooted in his mother’s upbringing and father’s work in Southern Mexico, where the disparities he witnessed inspired his search for effective ways to bridge systemic gaps. Prior to IAF, David worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and later in corporate development at Bird, where he helped guide the company through periods of rapid expansion and operational restructuring. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a BA in Economics from Wheaton College.

BRITTANY HENRY

Investments

Brittany brings deep expertise in due diligence and organizational design to her work at IAF. She first joined the firm as a graduate fellow in 2017, helping to shape the overall strategic direction, and is now an Investment Associate with a particular interest in unlocking asset ownership for communities of color. Prior to joining IAF, she worked as a management consultant in the strategy practice at KPMG, focusing on mergers and acquisitions for large corporate clients, and on financial process improvement for clients at Accenture. She received her M.B.A. from the Chicago Booth School of Business and her B.S. in Business Administration from Hampton University.

YUSILL/YUI SCRIBNER

Investments

Yui is a strategy and ops professional whose experience spans tech, media, investing, government, and the law. She joined IAF in 2019 to manage the firm’s operations and strategic initiatives and is particularly interested in the convergence of people, products, and policy to advance the common good. Previously, she was VP of Strategy & Business Development at Nickelodeon/Viacom, where she focused on strategic planning and innovation for the multibillion-dollar business. She also worked in business development at Palantir Technologies, where she oversaw growth for an enterprise healthcare customer. Prior to joining the private sector, Yui served in various roles at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, including Chief of Staff to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Head of Press & Public affairs. Yui received a B.A. in Political Economics from Barnard College of Columbia University.

KAITON WILLIAMS

Investments

Kaiton is a Silicon Valley engineer turned Human-Computer Interaction researcher. He joined IAF in 2018 with a particular interest in the challenges of connecting community-oriented research and design with scalable technology production and investment. Previously, Kaiton held senior engineering and architecture roles at Microsoft for over a decade, where he helped build and manage early web applications for billions of users. He then went on to earn his Ph.D. in Information Science from Cornell University, where his ethnographic research focused on the experiences of tech entrepreneurs building products for and from communities outside of Silicon Valley’s "normal." Kaiton also received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Morgan State University.