This week’s episode features Mika Weinstein, CEO of Just Futures, a Public Benefit Corporation that connects nonprofits and their workers with investments that are increasingly aligned with the needs of people, communities, and our one planet.
Through her work, Mika explores how values-aligned investing and community-centered financial solutions can help build economic power, strengthen communities, and advance the cooperative principles of shared prosperity and collective ownership. Her cross-sector career has been grounded in justice and care, with a focus on designing systems that align purpose with impact.
Before moving into financial services, Mika worked in the nonprofit sector, focusing on prison conditions and food justice. At the PREA Resource Center, a project of Impact Justice, she helped advance sexual safety in confinement settings by leading the design and oversight of complex technical systems supporting a national audit program. She also directed the research and production of a groundbreaking report that brought national attention to inhumane food conditions in U.S. prisons.
Her earlier work spans program design and evaluation, training delivery, and data systems development in mission-driven organizations. Mika graduated summa cum laude from the University of Oregon’s Honors College with a degree in planning, public policy, and management. She also holds a Master’s in Public Management from Johns Hopkins University and the Series 65 investment advisor license.