Racial Justice Fellowship Conversation Series: Capitalism for the Common Good with Common Future CEO Rodney Foxworth

October.12.2021

In 2021, through our Racial Justice Fellowship Program, six experienced Orrick lawyers are embedded with leading organizations working on the front lines of efforts to advance racial, social and economic justice and equity in the United States.

In the first conversation of a three-part series with our Racial Justice Fellows and their host organizations, Pro Bono Counsel Rene Kathawala spoke with Common Future CEO Rodney Foxworth and Orrick Fellow Walter Alarkon about the launch of a novel Character Based Lending fund to provide access to capital for BIPOC entrepreneurs.

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Walter Alarkon Senior Associate, Energy, Infrastructure

New York

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Energy & Infrastructure Sector
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Walter Alarkon Senior Associate

New York

His experience includes drafting and negotiating documentation specific to project finance, tax equity finance, bond offerings, and general corporate matters.

Rene Kathawala Pro Bono Counsel

New York

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Rene Kathawala Pro Bono Counsel

New York

Rene works with other pro bono counsel and legal services nonprofits to increase the quantity and quality of pro bono representation that is being provided to indigent clients in each of the cities worldwide where Orrick has a presence. In addition, he supervises and directly works on cases in such diverse areas as immigration law, family and matrimonial law, housing law, public benefits law, employment law counseling, impact litigation and nonprofit advice and counseling. Rene has worked on many substantial matters in the federal and state systems over his career that are reported as precedent. He also works with firm attorneys to strengthen the firm's innovative Impact Finance and Social Enterprise team that he founded and that provides representation in diverse transactional areas to nonprofit, for profit and hybrid organizations dedicated to providing basic services to poor persons around the world in areas including microfinance, water, education, energy, housing and health.

Based on his long-standing commitment to access to justice issues, Rene has been appointed to serve as a member of the New York City Bar Association Right to Counsel Task Force and the New York City Bar Association Family Court Judicial Appointment & Assignment Process Work Group. In recognition of his exemplary work in family law, United States District Judge Bloom appointed Rene as a special master in a federal court family law matter in 2014 in the Eastern District of New York in case number 07-cv-02565-ARR-LB, styled Garmhausen et al v. United States Department of Justice et al.

Racial Justice Fellowship Conversation Series: Capitalism for the Common Good with Common Future CEO Rodney Foxworth

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