Liyria Consulting

Rachel J. Robasciotti and Maya Philipson have spent more than two decades at the forefront of social justice investing, institutional strategy, and DEI leadership. Through Liyria Consulting, they bring that expertise directly to the organizations prepared to do the same.

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Rachel J. Robasciotti

She/Her

Rachel J. Robasciotti is a recognized leader in finance for integrating racial, gender, economic, and climate justice into investment strategy. Her commitment to social justice is rooted in her background as a Black, queer woman raised in a community that struggled for safety and financial security.She graduated from high school at 15, studied Economics at UC Berkeley, and at 25 founded a financial services firm dedicated to the well-being of people and the planet; which became Adasina Social Capital, a firm whose ETF trades on the NYSE. She coined the phrase "Social Justice Investing" in 2018 and is recognized as the driving force behind its adoption across the industry.Rachel developed a proprietary framework of more than 80 metrics designed to evaluate racial, gender, economic, and climate justice within publicly traded companies. In 2021, she co-created the Due Diligence 2.0 Commitment, an initiative to reduce systemic bias and increase capital flows to Black, Indigenous, and people of color asset managers. She has testified before the U.S. Senate on financial markets, spoken at Harvard, Wharton, and UC Berkeley's Haas School, and been featured in the New York Times, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and CNBC. She received the 2023 InvestmentNews DEI Award, was named to the Root 100 list of the most influential African Americans, and was recognized as a ThinkAdvisor Luminary in Asset Management. She is Co-Founder and Board Chair of the Freedom Economy Business Association, which supports investors in their pursuit of justice and sustainability. Most recently, she and Maya structured a Perpetual Purpose Trust to transition Adasina Social Capital into employee ownership.Her consulting practice draws directly on her two decades of building and leading institutions at the intersection of financial markets and social justice movements. Her work has shaped industry practice, and built a clear, evidence-based position on the business case for DEI.

Maya Philipson

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Maya Philipson joined what is now Adasina Social Capital in 2006, forming her initial connection to the firm through social justice work. In 2008, her steady perspective and operational instincts proved essential and she became an owner, and ultimately Co-Founder, Chief Operations Officer, and Chief Compliance Officer.As COO, Maya held direct responsibility for client experience, firm-wide business strategy, and the professional development of staff. Her approach to impact work has always been grounded in operational clarity. She advances a vision of financial services aligned with movements for racial, gender, economic, and climate justice. Most recently, she and Rachel structured a Perpetual Purpose Trust to transition Adasina Social Capital into employee ownership, an undertaking that required integrating legal, governance, and organizational design workstreams with the firm's foundational commitment to healing and reparative justice.Maya holds Series 7 and Series 66 licenses and earned her degree in Cultural Studies from Antioch College. Prior to Adasina, she served as CFO of a family real estate limited partnership. She served on the Board of Directors and Finance Committee of the National Center for Lesbian Rights for over six years and as a Strategic Advisor at Abacus Wealth Partners & Clarion Call Capital.Her consulting practice is grounded in operational and strategic leadership at values-driven firms, sustained board-level engagement with organizations working at the intersection of finance and social equity, and a consistent orientation toward durable, practice-tested outcomes.

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Rachel and Maya's consulting work grows directly out of twenty years of building, leading, and transforming institutions at the intersection of finance, strategy, and social justice.