Katherine Pease is Managing Director at Pathstone, an investment advisory firm working with family offices and institutions across the US. We spoke to her about the challenges in unlocking larger pools of gender-smart capital, what clients are paying attention to, and why it’s critical to get better at communicating gender’s relevance across investment portfolios and thematics.

What can development actors, philanthropists and foundations do to support the field of gender lens investing? Suzanne Biegel lists seven high impact strategic levers that could have an exponential impact on the movement of gender lens capital globally.

We had a conversation with Ingrid Leong, CIO for the Houssian Foundation, asking her to look back on her experience aligning the Foundation’s investment strategy with gender lens investing and creating a fully mission-aligned investment portfolio. She offered her honest reflections and advice for those starting out on this journey.

Just as the crises of a lack of access to clean water and sanitation and of gender inequality compound each other, the solutions are symbiotic. Women are the key to solving the water crisis, and the co-authors of this article have come together as three voices from the philanthropic and impact investing communities to advocate for increased investment in, and representation of, women.

Diane Isenberg is the Founder of Ceniarth, a single family office focused on impact-first investments that benefit marginalised communities globally. Diane founded the office, which stewards ~$400M in impact-first capital across both fund investments and direct enterprise lending, in 2013. Ceniarth is based in London with professional staff in both the UK and the US.

Teresa C. Younger is the CEO and President of the Ms Foundation for Women, which is on a mission to build collective power by centering women and girls of colour. She explains how the Ms. values run through everything the Foundation does - from their investment policy statement to the make-up of the organisation, where three quarters of the leadership team and 70% of the staff are women of colour - and why institutions need to get intentional about being uncomfortable.