Scholar Profile

Karen Li

Finance

Biography

Karen Li (she/her) is a graduate from Yale University with a B.A. in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration as well as a Chinese Advanced Language Certificate. She is a systems changer working at the intersection of finance and social impact. She is passionate about social justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, which are the focal points of the organizations and activities she is involved in. At Yale, she was awarded the Yale College Nakanishi Prize for her work improving racial and ethnic relations at Yale, her leadership within the first-generation and/or low-income (FGLI) community at Yale, and her advocacy for Asian American communities both within and outside of college. After graduation, she received Yale's Light Fellowship to study Mandarin for 6 months in Taiwan.

She has experience in startups, project management, partnership development, global communications, business development, social impact consulting, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and policy work.

She recently started a new job as an investment banker in public finance at Hilltop Securities Inc. helping to build out the new housing group for single- and multi-family (affordable) housing transactions and driving business development.

High school:  Brooklyn Technical High School

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