Kierith Jones, as The Head of Strategy and Innovative Finance at Thruline Networks, serves as a Thought Partner and Special Advisor to purpose-driven businesses and entrepreneurs, providing guidance for sustainable growth planning, organizational development and capital stack optimization. She also serves as a Special Advisor to individual investors, private funds and foundations focused on values-based investing for social and environmental impact. Prior to that, she led the Innovative Finance Program at Criterion Institute, a global non-profit think tank working to advance gender and social equity by addressing power dynamics in financial systems and transactions.
Kierith is a veteran human rights attorney and community organizer with decades of experience in reproductive justice, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental justice, voting rights and election protection initiatives for major organizations including: the ACLU, Brennan Center for Justice, Center for Reproductive Rights, DNC, Empire State Pride Agenda, Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch, Lambda Legal, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and OFA. She serves as a Pro Bono Arbitrator for the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP), the largest independent abortion fund in the United States.
Previously, Kierith was an international corporate finance and governance attorney, for Cleary Gottlieb (NYC and Paris) and later, Wilson Sonsini (Palo Alto, CA), where she worked for over a decade representing major institutional investment firms and multi-national corporations on complex financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities regulatory and compliance matters. She also advised Boards of Directors of public, private and nonprofit institutions. Kierith is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, L’Université Paris, La Sorbonne and New York University School of Law. She is a member of the Bar of the State of New York. |