Purpose Future Fellow - Emerging Fund Manager
Bryan Wilson
Chief Innovation Officer, Folks Capital
Bryan Wilson is leveraging collective community ownership through the power of community development, entrepreneurship, and home ownership in the Midwest.
Through the Purpose Futures Fellowship, Bryan Wilson is developing Folks Capital’s Neighborhood Equity model, which allows community members to build an ownership interest in their communities through homeownership, entrepreneurship, and community development through two main programs: microlending and affordable housing.
Bryan’s unique, interdisciplinary perspective about the potential for law, technology, and design helps unlock new and transformative types of value. Listed by law.com as One of Eighteen Millenials Changing the Face of Legal Tech by law.com, Bryan has worked as an early stage employee for an exited startup, at one of the world’s best research institutes under one of the world’s top data scientists, directly with the American Bar Association, and as an independent consultant on innovative projects that reimagine the ways businesses, governments, and people work and grow together. Bryan also has a depth of experience speaking in conferences and hosting workshops in North America and Europe, including at the U.N. World Data Forum, the New York Stock Exchange, and a Forbes-sponsored event.