Mia Diawara
Principal at The BioFi Project
Oakland, California
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2024 - Current
The BioFi Project is a collective supporting bioregions to design, build, and implement Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) that connect financial resources with regenerators. We partner with bioregional organizing teams and Indigenous communities across North America and around the world to apply the BFF templates and capital raising and allocation approaches laid out in the book Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet (published in June of 2024 by Finance for Gaia, Dark Matter Capital, and Buckminster Fuller Institute). The BioFi Project team is made up of practitioners in the areas of economics, finance, governance, bioregionalism, ecology, regeneration, and social justice. Once the BioFi Project establishes a partnership with a bioregion, the team engages in a listening process; supports asset mapping; identifies which BFF is best to start with; designs a detailed proposal for a BFF; and supports the bioregion with capital raising, capital allocation, and governance implementation. At the global level, the team also shares the ideas in the paper, stewards a community of practice, builds relevant software tooling, and supports eco-credit co-design facilitation. The BioFi Project is a fiscally sponsored project of BFI, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit organization.
Board Chair of Nominating & Governance Committee
2020
http://www.robertmoseskin.org
Strategic Advisor, Investments
2021
ImpactAssets is a nonprofit financial services firm that enables philanthropists and individual investors to engage in impact investing.
Partner
2021 - 2023
Lowercarbon Capital funds research and invests in technologies that reduce CO2 in the atmosphere.
Manager, Sustainability & Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Performance
2020 - 2021
TPG is a private investment firm that manages capital across a series of funds.
Raised $535,598,425.00 from Macquarie Group, Ares Management, Nomura Holdings, Pierfront Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Partners Group and Barings.
Senior Associate Consultant
2019 - 2020
Associate Consultant
2017 - 2020
Sustainability & ESG
2019 - 2020
TPG is a private investment firm that manages capital across a series of funds.
Raised $535,598,425.00 from Macquarie Group, Ares Management, Nomura Holdings, Pierfront Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Partners Group and Barings.
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Energy Resources Engineering 104
2016 - 2017
Speech & Debate Coach
2013 - 2017
Pathways to 1.5°C Project
2016 - 2016
Developed the preliminary methodology for RMI’s Positive Disruption publication, generating accelerated market diffusion curves for renewable energy technologies and working with a team to build a global energy supply and greenhouse gas emissions forecast to 2100.
Carbon War Room is an organization focused on promoting environmental friendly business solutions.