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Cara Kennedy-Cuomo

Founding Partner, Ardabelle Capital

Ardabelle Capital is a pioneering private equity fund dedicated to driving the transition to a sustainable economy. Prior to co-founding Ardabelle Capital, Cara Kennedy-Cuomo was an associate at 17 Asset Management, a global firm that designs and manages investments aligned with the 17 United Nations SDGs. She was also a partner at Sahar Global Summits, where she led the group’s diversity and inclusion division. 
Kennedy-Cuomo has worked 

for Jeffrey Sachs on international development efforts, living and working in Rwanda, Malaysia, and Colombia. With Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, she has joined delegations fighting for LGBTQ rights in Uganda, environmental rights in Ecuador, and protesting the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Bangladesh and Myanmar. Domestically, she has also joined the organization’s initiatives fighting on behalf of farmworkers in Florida and in upstate New York, and the Mass Bail Out program in New York City.

Kennedy-Cuomo received her MBA at The Wharton School, and an AB in government from Harvard College, with a secondary in ethnicity, migration, and human rights.