SoLa Impact
Sherri Francois has extensive work experience in the media industry. Sherri began their career as a Television News Producer at Channel One News and later became a Series Producer, where they produced long format segments, series, and documentary material for a national news program. Sherri then worked as a Producer at CNN, where they produced and edited feature and news segments. After that, they joined NBC News as a Producer, where they produced long-form documentary programming and incorporated archival material. Sherri also worked at Viacom, MTV, and MTVU as a Producer, where they produced and edited character-driven documentary episodes for shows such as True Life and MADE, making decisions regarding budget, staffing, graphics, casting, editing, and overall look and feel of the shows. Sherri further gained experience as a Digital Media Producer at HGTV and as a Co-Producer/Editor at South Bay Multimedia, LLC. Sherri joined NYC Media as a Supervising Producer for "The Vanguard: Women in Media." Sherri then served as an Executive Producer at South Bay Multimedia. In 2018, they became the Executive Director of Sola I Can Foundation. Currently, Sherri is the Chief Impact Officer at Sola Impact.
Sherri Francois earned a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from UCLA. The duration of their education remains unspecified.
SoLa Impact
SoLa Impact Fund is a double bottom-line fund, founded with the express strategy to produce market returns for our investors while revitalizing historically tough urban areas in the United States. Affordable housing is one of the most pressing social issues of our generation – has an incredibly broad impact from health and safety, to income-inequality, race issues and even on the long-term competitiveness of the US economy. Our strategy is to find intelligent ways that private capital can create high quality, yet affordable, urban housing. In the process, creating jobs, revitalizing neighborhoods, empowering the less advantaged and changing lives. We believe the motto of "Doing Well by Doing Good" encapsulates SoLa's, and our investors operating philosophy.