Vonda Brunsting

Vonda Brunsting's current projects focus on financial strategies to advance worker and human rights, including her role as project director, Global Workers Capital at CLJE. Prior to joining CLJE, she led the Just Transition project and co-founded the Trustee Leadership Forum for Retirement Security (TLF) at the Initiative for Responsible Investment at the Harvard Kennedy School. Before her work at Harvard, Vonda was the Director of the Capital Stewardship Program at Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which was created to engage the capital markets and financial institutions on behalf of the 2 million members of SEIU. She worked as a community organizer in in Chicago, New York, and Boston with the Industrial Areas Foundation.

Vonda co-chairs the board of the Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE). She previously served on the investment committees of the UU Common Endowment Fund and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and on the Board of the Council of Institutional Investors.

She received her B.A from Calvin College and a Master’s degree from the University of Chicago.