As Zevin Asset Management’s president, Sonia Kowal brings over two decades of investment experience to managing corporate matters, business practices, and strategic planning. She is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and is passionate about tintegrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues into investments. She feels particularly strongly about racial equity, wealth inequality, and our disastrous criminal justice system. Previously she was a portfolio manager and investment research analyst in Emerging Markets at Baillie Gifford in Scotland. Ms. Kowal holds a BS from the University of Edinburgh in Zoology and an MS from the University of Stirling, Scotland in Investment Analysis. She is a board member of ICCR, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of faith- and values-driven organizations who view the management of their investments as a powerful catalyst for social change.

A favorite quote of Sonia’s is “What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.” – Bell Hooks