Dr Rachel Naa‑Du Laryea began her career at Goldman Sachs, one of the few Black women to break into a male-dominated industry. She went on to JPMorgan Chase, where she helped shape a $30 billion racial equity investment strategy as corporates sought to close the racial wealth gap.
An anthropologist by training and entrepreneur by instinct, Dr Laryea describes herself simply as a storyteller. Her trajectory, from Virginia’s wealthy enclaves to Wall Street’s trading floors and into academia, has been defined by a single question: how can capitalism work for Black communities?
