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MICHELLE
AREVALO-CARPENTER

Michelle is a General Partner at IMPAQTO Capital. She also serves as the Executive Director for Strategy and Content at SOCAP Global, the largest impact investing convening, connecting a global community every year in San Francisco and throughout the year through its digital content offering. 

 

Before her current roles, Michelle spent 10 years as the CEO and co-founder of IMPAQTO, a B Corporation with a mission to support impact entrepreneurs in reaching their goals by building the ecosystem and community they need to thrive. IMPAQTO is a consortium of 4 companies, that offer a network of coworking spaces, a business accelerator, innovation consulting services, and an impact investing fund (IMPAQTO Capital) to Latin American entrepreneurs building a better world. 

 

Before her career in business, Michelle was the founding Country Director of Asylum Access Ecuador, a legal clinic for refugees that later scaled to Asia and Africa, and did direct advocacy at the United Nations in Geneva. As a consultant, she has focused on paths to scaling impact for grassroots organizations, including an association of families of disappeared children in El Salvador, and communities at risk of development-induced displacement in Thailand, Cambodia, and India.

 

Michelle counts a number of firsts throughout her career: with IMPAQTO, she opened the first private coworking space in Ecuador, and also the first certified B Corporation in the country. She launched GreenCrowds, Ecuador's first crowdfunding platform. She is also the first woman under 40 to be named in the top 100 reputation-ranking business leaders in the Merco Ranking.

Michelle is a recent mother of twins and is married to tech and climate entrepreneur and writer Matthew Carpenter-Arevalo. They live in Quito, the place they have chosen as their home. She holds an Mst in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford and a Master's in Public Policy from UC Berkeley.

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