Description

The first and only comprehensive resource designed to empower everyday people with insider knowledge on moving money for a more equitable economy.

If you’ve been taught that the world of finance is too complex for your feeble mind to grasp, you’re not alone. And honestly, it’s been constructed to be intentionally exclusionary and mysterious. The Financial Activist Playbook is a one-of-a-kind book written to demystify the financial system and pull back the curtain on the wizards behind the scenes.

Financial activism is described as shifting the flow of money and power to solve social and environmental problems.

Jasmine says it's “the antidote to a financial system that’s inaccessible, convoluted, and inequality-producing by design. For many of us, discussion of the financial system evokes confusion, frustration, anxiety, and, in the best-case scenario, straight-up boredom.”

This book is an easy-to-understand, digestible, and often funny resource for the average person to learn money-moving strategies such as:

• How to leverage endowments, retirement, and pension funds to sustainably invest in Black and Brown communities
• How to build economic people power through structures like worker-owned cooperatives
• How to vote with your dollars and create “people budgets”
• And more

About the Author

Jasmine Rashid is a New York-raised, Oakland-based, Bangladeshi-American who believes deeply in people power. As a financial activist, writer, and impact investing professional, she successfully supported the #FamiliesBelongTogether coalition in shifting billions of dollars in big bank financing away from the migrant detention and private prison industry. In her role as Director of Impact for Candide Group, she helps investors flow their money to predominately women & BIPOC-led social justice-focused companies, funds, and vital organizations building the next economy.

The Financial Activist Playbook builds on her knowledge base as a Congressman John Lewis fellow, Just Economy Institute alum, Trauma of Money Method certified practitioner, and lived experience as a girl in her late 20s just trying her best to navigate contradictions under capitalism (and help build something better).