Erin Axelrod, a seasoned expert on growing climate-focused and climate-benefiting businesses, is: a partner at LIFT Economy; co-founder of the Force for Good Fund (a $1.1M pilot fund that invested in 13 women and POC-lead socially-oriented and climate-justice-centered enterprises); co-founder of The Next Egg initiative (which seeks to move the $35 Trillion in U.S. retirement savings into community-based solutions); and director of the Trees for Climate Health Initiative, an ambitious reforestation initiative working to grow over 10 million trees by 2025, using a justice-centered lens.