Team
Bridging Community and Capital
The Justice Capital team blend six decades of public and private sector leadership, private equity and family office experience, and work with frontline communities. We are a bridge between Capital and undervalued assets, cultural influencers, artists, entrepreneurs, royalty/heads of state, financial institution leaders, and UHNW investors that have made an aggregate commitment of over $26 billion to catalyze thriving Black, Brown, Indigenous, and systems impacted communities.
Christina spent the first 13 years of her career in politics building the unprecedented coalitions to win on the DREAM Act, the Affordable Care Act and higher education access, expansion of workforce development programs, and women’s health issues. Winner of the prestigious POLLIE award at just 27 from her work at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Christina soon became one of the youngest Executive Directors in US national politics.
In 2012, Christina transitioned into Impact Investing and since then has emerged as one of the leading millennial investors, cultivating a trusted base of investors and community leaders to partner toward scaled solutions to our world’s greatest challenges– climate crisis, mass incarceration, racial and gender disparities in health, and more.
Christina has been featured in a multitude of outlets from The Financial Times, to Bloomberg and CNN, to The Source.
Christina is a featured speaker and presenter at convenings and Family Office Conferences on Impact Investment around the world. She is the Founding Chair of the NEXUS Network’s Working Group Toward Equal Justice, where she works with their 6,000 global network of young philanthropists, impact investors, and social entrepreneurs to align their full breadth of Capital—social, political, and economic/business and investments— toward Justice. She is also a member of The Summit Institute, Trailblazers, FOE, Forbes Impact, and Renaissance communities.
She sits on the board of Inside Circle Foundation, the NAACP National Foundation Board, as well as The Ramapo Munsee Land Alliance, which rematriates the ancestral lands of the Ramapo Lenape. She helped launch Solve at MIT’s inaugural work with the Oceti Sakowin to build sovereign energy, food, and water systems and invests in and in the wake of COVID, Christina has helped launch foundations to expand access to life-saving PPE in prisons, shelters, and 50+ indigenous communities, providing millions of masks and other vital PPE to those in need.
As a classically trained vocalist, Christina has shared stages all over the world from the US to the Netherlands to China. In 2014, she began directing with the US Premiere of Apple itune’s first issue based album for the People’s Climate March, The album HOME, featuring NE-YO, Common, Elle Varner, and produced by 6 time Grammy Award winner Malik Yusef.
Christina was proudly raised by the city of Syracuse. She is a daughter, a sister, a god mother, and a water protector.
Taj James, Foundation Partnerships
During over two decades of work in the social sector, Taj has raised and directed of $500M in resources towards high impact solutions. Taj helped to found and lead the Movement Strategy Center (MSC), which has grown into a thriving social change community institution and network committed to creating a world that works for all and now leads Full Spectrum Capital. In partnership with Justice Capital, Taj leads Foundation Partnerships and advises our community partners.
Ruben Omar Hernandez, Community-owned Ventures
Ruben has more than 20 years of experience in business development, high finance, innovation and entrepreneurship. In the decade Ruben served at Accenture as Senior Manager in the Global Utilities Division, he was responsible for implementing large scale technology systems to manage assets and investments in the transmission, distribution, and commercialization of electricity, gas, and water. Ruben brings his wealth of expertise in community-ownership structures and tech to support Justice Capital’s venture portfolio.
Joseph Spence, Founding Partner and Advisor
Joseph began his career as an engineer in the prestigious NASA Academy at Goddard Space Flight Center before expanding into finance and ultimately becoming an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs leading their Technology, Media and Telecom; Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging; and Structured Finance sector credit teams for the Americas and EMEA regions. Prior to this, he also worked at Standard & Poor’s where he was responsible for covering approximately $144 billion in debt spanning all sectors, grades, strategies and regions.
Joseph serves as an advisor, c-level executive and co-founder for multiple tech companies, tech-infused real estate ventures and foundations charged with catalyzing moonshot solutions in multiple technologies, mobility solutions and access for the future of cities in-line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In 2016, Joseph launched his ground-breaking philanthropic efforts creating We Are Makers (WAM) and IconIQ Talks to inspire the next generation of solutionaries. WAM works to develop 1,000,000 makers in communities who have historically been left behind to enable them to create solutions to their communities most pressing needs. They have trained more than 5,000 young people in STEAM in Utah and engaged companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Siemens, and more. IconIQ Talks then brings world class thought leaders like Princess Martha Louise of Norway to every middle and high school student via an integrated statewide broadcast to inspire more makers and innovation while also convening business and governmental leaders around moonshot sustainable development projects toward the SDGs.
In addition, Joseph is on the advisory boards of the NASA Academy Alumni Association, Utah World Trade Center, Sustainable Electrified Transportation Center (SELECT), Wasatch Front Economic Development Strategy Committee and Utah STEM Action Center Foundation. He is also an Honorary Commander at Hill Airforce base.
Joseph holds a second degree black belt in Japanese Swordsmanship from Ehime Prefecture, Japan and diplomas in yoga therapy & teaching from the secular Indian Institute of Yoga based in Patna, India. He is Fluent/literate in Japanese, has an MBA from Columbia University and is currently studying nano and biotech at Harvard.
Eric Glass, Advisor
One of the foremost impact investors in the Municipal Bond industry, Eric has built and led a $1BN municipal investment portfolio with his innovative and rigorous impact investing strategy.
In his advisory to Justice Capital, Eric supports our integrated capital strategy to build resilient, just infrastructure.
