Laura Weidman Powers, J.D./MBA

Laura joins Base10 after working as the Head of Impact at Echoing Green, a global social innovation fund, where she oversees investments, portfolio support, and impact strategy.

Laura is the co-founder and CEO emerita of Code2040, a nationally-recognized, award-winning nonprofit that equips Black and Latinx technologists and their allies with the tools, connections, and care they need to advocate for and achieve racial equity in the tech industry.

In 2016, Laura was invited to join the Obama Administration for a six-month term as senior advisor to US Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith on issues of diversity and inclusion and equitable access to capital. From 2014-2016 Laura sat on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE) for the US Department of Commerce. Laura was the American University of Rome’s first Social Entrepreneur in Residence in 2019, and was a 2018 Stanford Social Entrepreneur in Residence, teaching courses on social innovation at both schools. She was a 2016 New America California Fellow, and a 2013 Echoing Green Fellow. Laura holds a BA from Harvard and a JD/MBA from Stanford.