Aunnie Patton Power is the founder of Intelligent Impact, an innovative finance advisory firm and a university lecturer on Innovative Finance, Impact Investing and Technology for Impact. She is also the author of Adventure Finance: How to Create a Funding Journey that Blends Profit and Purpose, and is starting a new book about alternative funding structures. We spoke to her about the most impactful lever and strategies for getting more capital flowing to women (and especially women of colour) - and how traditional structures can fall short.

COVID has accentuated the importance of building resilient and sustainable supply chains - an aspiration which can only be achieved by diversifying and appropriately financing scalable diverse, local, women-owned, -led, and -impact businesses.