With more than two decades of experience working to improve the quality of life for people with limited financial resources, Aisha Nyandoro is a leader in the campaign to end generational poverty. She is the founding CEO of Springboard To Opportunities, a nonprofit that helps affordable housing residents reach their life goals. In 2018, Nyandoro launched the Magnolia Mother’s Trust, a first-of-its-kind guaranteed income program for Black mothers in the United States, and she has worked to scale the program’s success nationally through policies such as the expanded Child Tax Credit and a federal guaranteed income.

Nyandoro is an Emerson Collective Dial Fellow as well as a fellow of the Highland Project, W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network and Ascend at the Aspen Institute. She is a TED speaker, 2022 McNulty Prize Winner and the 2022 Disrupter Change Champion from Community Change. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Essence, NBC, and CNN. She holds a B.A. from Tennessee State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. When not working to liberate financial capital, she is a wife and mom to two very charming sons.