JustFaith Conversation with State Treasurer Shawn Wooden
Monday, May 9, 2022
6:15 to 7:30 p.m.
at Holy Family Retreat Center
Climate Issues pose disastrous threats throughout the world, and we are reaching tipping points regarding melting icecaps, degradation of soil, water, air, and much more. The JustFaith Social Justice Action Ministry of Holy Family invites you to a conversation with Treasurer Wooden to learn how and where Connecticut is investing its monies and to advocate for investments that will benefit the healing of the planet.
Please join us for this important conversation, inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si wherein he urges people to make investments in a sustainable future.
This event is free and open to the public but registration is required. Refreshments will be served after the presentation. We look forward to welcoming you.
About State Treasurer Shawn Wooden
Shawn T. Wooden was sworn in as Connecticut’s State Treasurer on January 9, 2019, following his successful 21-year career as an investment attorney and public service as City Council President of Hartford.
He is currently President of the National Association of State Treasurers, the bipartisan organization of state treasurers and public finance officials across the United States, and the nation’s foremost authority for responsible state treasury programs and related financial practices, policies, and education.
Treasurer Wooden is the sole trustee of the $47-billion Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, administers a $26-billion debt management program, manages over $259 billion in annual cash transactions. He has a seat on 25 quasi-governmental authorities, boards and commissions related to housing, finance, student loans, air and water sports, venture capital, the lottery, private sector retirement security and other key policy areas.
Born and raised in Hartford, Treasurer Wooden participated in a desegregation busing program to attend public school. Graduating with honors, he earned a four-year academic scholarship to Trinity College. He later attended New York University School of Law before moving back to his hometown of Hartford to begin his legal career at Day Pitney, LLP.
Treasurer Wooden has been a fierce advocate for closing the wealth gap, improving financial literacy, reducing gun violence, protecting workers, and advancing diversity, equity & inclusion in the financial services industry.
In September of 2020, moved by the murder of George Floyd and the reaction to his widely published op-ed calling on corporate America to get off the sidelines, Treasurer Wooden launched the Corporate Call to Action: Coalition for Equity & Opportunity (CCA) in partnership with the Ford Foundation. The coalition now consists of 18 of the leading financial institutions in America representing more than 725,000 employees and $26 trillion in assets under management. The mission of the CCA is to address racial economic inequality within the financial services industry as well as in communities of color that have historically been underbanked, underrecognized and underfunded.
During the 2021 legislative session, Treasurer Wooden proposed and championed the passage of a first-in-the-nation CT Baby Bonds law. CT Baby Bonds is an anti-generational poverty, racial equity, and economic growth program inspired by Professor Darrick Hamilton of the New School’s Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy.
He is the only Black elected State Treasurer in the country and the only Black elected official serving statewide in New England.