Kierith Jones

As Head of Strategy and Innovative Finance at Thruline Networks, Kierith serves as a Special Advisor and thought partner to individual investors, family offices, private funds and foundations focused on aligning their investing activities to drive social, environmental and economic solutions. Prior to that, Kierith led the Innovative Finance Program at Criterion Institute, a global non-profit think tank working to advance gender and social equity by addressing power dynamics in financial systems and transactions.

Kierith is a veteran human rights attorney, activist and community organizer with decades of experience in reproductive justice, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental justice, voting rights and election protection initiatives. She has worked with major organizations including: American Civil Liberties Union, Brennan Center for Justice, Center for Reproductive Rights, Empire State Pride Agenda, Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch, Lambda Legal, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Election Protection and Organizing For America. For over a decade, Kierith has served as a volunteer Pro Bono Arbitrator for the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP), the largest independent abortion fund in the US, and the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Greater Palm Springs Animal Allies.

Previously, Kierith was an international corporate finance and governance attorney for Cleary Gottlieb (NYC and Paris) and later, Wilson Sonsini (Silicon Valley), where she worked for over a decade representing major institutional investment firms and multinational corporations on complex financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities regulation and compliance matters. She also advised Boards of Directors of public, private and philanthropic institutions. Kierith is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, L’Université Paris, La Sorbonne and New York University School of Law. She is a member of the Bar of the State of New York.