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Betsy Zeidman is Director of the Center for Emerging Domestic Markets (CEDM) at the Milken Institute. CEDM aims to increase the flow of capital to America’s emerging entrepreneurs and communities through its research and information network, educational center and financial innovations laboratory. She also manages the Institute’s work in such areas as strategic philanthropy, mission-related investing and environmental finance. In this position, Zeidman works with foundations, governments, institutional and individual investors, entrepreneurs and policy makers.Zeidman has authored several reports for the Institute, including the recent Creating Capital, Jobs and Wealth in Emerging Domestic Markets: Financial Technology Transfer to Low-Income Communities, and speaks frequently at conferences and to the media.Zeidman also provides strategic management and marketing advisory services to clients in the private, public and non-profit sectors, with a specialty in corporate responsibility and financial performance. Prior to joining the Institute, she served as senior management at several entertainment companies and public relations firms, and staffed national and state political campaigns.Zeidman is currently a member of the Investment Committee of the Shefa Fund’s Los Angeles TZEDEK Community Fund; a Board Member of the Progressive Jewish Alliance and CARAT (California Resources and Training), and a member of Business for Social Responsibility (and was Chair of its Southern California chapter), among other civic and political activities. She earned her B.A. degree, cum laude with distinction, and her M.B.A. at Yale University. | 