Eric Horvath, VP for Community-engaged Investing at Earlystone Management, recalls a traumatic simulation of the Ellis Island experience while in 5th grade.

Eric is driven by a single, fundamental question: how do we transform how power and resources are shared in our economy, while centering those who have been systematically excluded?

Eric mobilizes resources for underserved communities as both an investor and an educator. He is Vice President for Community-engaged Investing at Earlystone Management, a family office. He also leads an initiative at Harvard Law School focused on supporting labor pension fund trustees advocate for more responsible investing at their Funds.

Previously, Eric served as the Director of Impact Investments at Common Future, where he led the organization's impact-first investments by-for-and-with communities of color. Before, he was at Transform Finance, where he led educational initiatives for activists and organizers exploring paths for their communities to better engage with capital. He’s also worked at the Woodcock Foundation, where he supported the organization’s grantmaking and impact investments.

Eric serves on multiple boards and investment committees (New York Foundation, UUCEF, Invest Appalachia) and teaches “Capital for Good: Finance, Investment and Social Justice” to graduate students at CUNY.

A former Fulbright Grantee, Eric earned his MPA from Syracuse University and his MBA from NYU. He calls Brooklyn home.

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