EP 11: DR. RUTH SHABER
Dr. Ruth Shaber is a changemaker and innovator, moving from a robust career as an OBGYN and senior executive at Kaiser Permanente to empowering women across finance and healthcare. Currently, she is the founder and president of Tara Health Foundation, a philanthropic investment group that uses evidence-informed programs to promote women's well-being and opportunities.
She is also the co-founder and board chair of Rhia Ventures, a collective of foundations and investors committed to bringing new types of capital to the reproductive health field.
Her recently published book, The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk, serves as the basis for her new initiative - The Diverse Investing Collective - which aims to increase the assets managed by gender-diverse and racially-diverse teams to 33 percent by 2033.
Tara Health Foundation advances health and economic justice by transferring all of our resources and assets to invest in and elevate solutions at the intersection of race and gender.
Rhia Ventures mission is to advance reproductive and maternal health equity by intentionally leveraging capital to center the needs, experiences, and perspectives of historically marginalized people in decision-making.
The Diverse Investing Collective is a measurement-driven organization focused on shifting the paradigm of who controls capital. The Collective is focused on “changing the face of finance” and having 33% of assets managed by gender-diverse and racially-diverse fund management teams by 2033 in order to drive outperformance and social change.
In The XX Edge, Patience Marime-Ball and Ruth Shaber envision a new paradigm of gender-focused investing where more women are placed in decision-making roles and able to optimize their skills across all capital markets—leading to higher returns for individual investors and greater economic growth.
