Samantha Tweedy

Samantha Tweedy is the CEO of the Black Economic Alliance, a nonpartisan coalition of Black business leaders and allies focused on expanding Black political and economic power. A Yale Law-trained attorney and former president of the Black Economic Alliance Foundation, she has worked across philanthropy, education, policy, and advocacy to advance economic mobility, opportunity, work, wages, and wealth for Black communities.

The American Dream Depends on Rebuilding Trust in Institutions

At the Aspen Ideas Festival, business and civic leaders argued that the American dream remains politically useful only if it is treated as unfinished work rather than a settled promise. Samantha Tweedy, Tom Wilson, Brian Hooks and Skye Perryman differed on how much responsibility business should bear, but tied declining trust in institutions to unequal access to opportunity, economic insecurity and threats to democratic rights. Their shared case was that rebuilding the dream requires concrete institutional action, local problem-solving and a broader account of freedom than markets or formal rights alone can provide.

The Aspen InstituteJun 30, 202619 min read