Vanessa provides leadership and oversight over the entire portfolio of work as well as leads key strategies focused on ecosystem building, access to capital and community-led economic development activities. Vanessa is a co-founder of Native Women Lead, a national organization that invests in Indigenous women in business, of which she helped incubate at RCLLC, co-designing the 5R’s of Rematriation and launching the Matriarch Funds, a scaffolded financing strategy for Indigenous women to invest into Indigenous women. She is co-building the Rematriating Economies Apprenticeship to support more Indigenous women in fund and asset management. She sits on the boards of Delta Institute, Seven Fires and Potlikker Capital. She is an advisor to PopCollab’s We Write the Future, Pivotal Venture’s Women and Girls of Color Design Council, Decolonizing Wealth Project, and 2X Global JEDI Working Group. She is a 2022 Miss Porter’s School Alumnae Evan Burger Donaldson Awardee, She is a 2021 Paypal Maggie Lena Walker’s Emerging Leader Awardee and a 2020 Conscious Company Media’s World Changing Woman in Sustainable Business Awardee.  She is a 2021 Purpose Fund Building Fellow and a 2020 Boston Impact Initiative Fund-Building fellow. She is a citizen of the Navajo Nation and resides on Tiwa Territory (Albuquerque, NM).