Patricia Lizarraga is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of the Hypatia Women CEO Index & ETF (ticker: WCEO),  impact investing in American public companies with women CEOs under the thesis that women leaders tend to outperform their male counterparts at the highest executive level. Yet, only 10% of CEOs at Fortune 500 companies are currently women. On this episode of the Good Standing podcast, we discuss exactly why the obstacles and barriers women have to uniquely navigate better prepare them for the CEO role. We examine the complicated portrayal of women CEOs in recent films like Babygirl (2024) and Bugonia (2025) and the emergence of a potential zeitgeist concerning this perceived archetype, tracing back to Hypatia (believed to be born around 350 AD) herself. Patricia Lizarraga has over 30 years of Wall Street experience, at firms including Allen & Co; Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and Citi, and has been focused on investing in women since 2007. Ms. Lizarraga Chair’s the Audit Committee for Credicorp, Ltd. and Banco de Credito del Peru, the largest financial conglomerate and universal bank in Peru, respectively, and she is a Trustee of the Museum of Art of Lima. She boasts an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Yale University.

Haym Gross, District Chairman of NYC2030, an organization focused on clean energy initiatives and boasting partners in multiple cities across America, returns to the Good Standing podcast with David Klatt, CEO of Logical Buildings (smart building & energy tech) and its mobile application GridRewards, which provides monetary compensation directly to New York City and Westchester County residents (Con Edison customers) for reducing their energy usage at peak times throughout the calendar year. This is the first Good Standing episode that directly promotes a collaborative campaign between technology and civic impact partners. All parties discuss how digital technology and social media can be reconfigured to directly support initiatives that positively affect the world around us. Can GridRewards expand from its roughly 25k current NYC users to 100k by April, 2026? Why not one million users? Why not all of ConEd's 3.7 million electric customers? How can Good Standing as a web and mobile application and companion podcast help initiatives like GridRewards x NYC2030 "go viral" at a time when so many US and global citizens feel overwhelmed or ineffectual in the face of hyper-object environmental, political, and economic uncertainty? What would society-our future-look like if we traded in "doom-scrolling" for campaigns that directly foster collective hope, impact, and meaningful change?

For over 30 years, JazzReach, the national, Brooklyn-based nonprofit, founded by composer and drummer Hans Schuman, has brought the magic of high-level live jazz to over one million students across 42 states. Schuman, our featured guest on the latest episode of Good Standing, launched the organization after selling his late grandmother's Steinway piano for much-needed seed money. Since 1994, JazzReach has been helping audiences of all ages, but especially young people, not to learn jazz instrumentation necessarily, but to explore the wonders of deep listening, the art of sharing time and space, and the lucid joys of improvisation, encouragement, and creativity. This is achieved through evolving multi-media presentations that mix and merge scripted educational context with the raw, in-person experience of live jazz. Like any serious jazz aficionado, Schuman takes the subject-its history, lineage, and cultural influence-quite seriously, but he's also light on his feet, thankfully. We discuss jazz as a metaphor for the democratic ideal, what it means to be a Hipster Jazz Pusher-man (see: "Jerry Maguire," the latest season [5] of "Stranger Things," and more), how major players like Billy Joel and John Mayor have supported in the past, and of course, the seemingly addicting, intellectual obsessiveness of the jazz rabbit hole. Many of jazz's great players are discussed, from Miles to Mingus, but not least of all, John Coltrane, whose centennial is fast approaching.

The "bad boy" winner of Project Runway season 3, Jeffrey Sebelia, is now the seasoned good guy Design Director of Urbane & Gallant, a new Los Angeles-based menswear line brought forth by CEO, Founder, and entrepreneurial activist, Andrew Park. The stylish gents recently joined the Good Standing podcast to discuss how their new fashion line firmly rebukes notions of "greenwashing," going several steps further to ensure that all stages of their supply chain proudly and transparently resonate with real world impact. As a benefit corporation, the brand is committed to creating positive social and environmental impact by, among other methods, sourcing from organizations that produce sustainable fabrics in New Zealand and protect the country's endangered wetlands; to the fight against global human trafficking. Urbane & Gallant has aligned with organizations domestically and abroad that both hunt down and dismantle trafficking rings, as well as those that liberate and later, responsibly employ rehabilitated victims in the fashion production industry, further enshrining fair labor practices within it. The discussion touches on the fabricated and often surreal unreality of "Reality TV," what "masculinity" looks, sounds and feels like in 2025, the unfortunately vast and complicated issue of global human trafficking, and how their fashion brand ensures that "luxury should be a force for good-one that benefits both the people and the planet."

Earlier this year (2025) saw ChaShaMa's last-ever annual fundraising gala. For three decades, this wild and storied event, often taking place in repurposed New York City commercial real estate and featuring dozens of diverse artists and performers, raised funds for creatives at all stages of their careers to help place them in studio, retail, and exhibition spaces, more often than not, completely free of charge. On this episode of the Good Standing podcast, Durst, a disciple of the late theatre director and activist, Reza Abdoh, reflects on thirty years of hunting down unique spaces for art activations, being a rebellious teen, growing up with learning disabilities and transcending them, the responsibilities of her own privilege as it relates to her family, recent success stories within ChaShaMa, and what's next for her and commercial real estate in general. Anita brings her well-earned wisdom, playful mischievousness, and loose, quirky charm to this swift and informative episode.

Darin Carter is a computer scientist, cyber security specialist, and advocate for how innovative technologies can catalyze impact. He leads Community Engagement at Coinbase, and works closely with Stand With Crypto, an advocacy effort led by Coinbase that has successfully passed significant legislation to make the crypto industry safer and more trusted. Darin helped create campaigns that use new technologies to solve difficult real world problems, like supporting a platform that provides aid directly to recipients in need after a natural disaster in Haiti, a successful effort to build sustainable housing in El Salvador, a program with Give Directly that provides cash to Harlem families in need, and more. Our conversation focuses on the tech industry and how leaders and platforms within it can become more impactful and solve our most pressing problems. 

Gregory Thornbury, Executive Director of Silver Art Projects, an art residency program located in the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, joins Silver Art Senior Fellow, artist Jared Owens on the Good Standing Podcast. The pair discuss what it takes to sustain a successful, yearly art residency program, a special component within Silver Art dedicated exclusively to "Justice-Impacted" artists, and generally what it means to thrive at the intersection of contemporary art, activism, and philanthropy.

Alan Browde is an activist and social innovator who is tackling the inequality gap in South Africa by focusing on food security. He is the Founder and former CEO of South Africa Harvest, which is the second largest food rescue operation in South Africa.  SA Harvest has built an impressive logistics operation that rescues edible, nutritious food that otherwise would have gone to waste and delivers it to organizations who distribute it to people in need.  Today Alan is focused on systemic policy interventions that can end the hunger crisis. He recently founded the Union Against Hunger, which is a coalition of organizations who are working to uphold the existing constitutional rights to nutrition and food for South Africans. Alan's episode provides an example of how to develop a pragmatic solution to a systemic problem, and simultaneously how to develop a model that can be replicated to solve similar problems around the globe. 

Gary Bagley is an expert in volunteerism and running impactful organizations. His story exemplifies how to build a meaningful, successful life that is both personally fulfilling and genuinely helpful to others. Gary's journey in giving back starts from a young age as a Boy Scout to becoming a volunteer partner to HIV/AIDS patients in New York City in the late '80s, early '90s. After earning his masters, he eventually found himself running nonprofit organizations, notably serving for 13 years as Executive Director of New York Cares, which matches tens of thousands of volunteers with local orgs every year. Today he is an executive coach and leadership consultant, and his newsletter is a must-follow for anyone in the impact space. Gary also serves on the The New York State Commission on National and Community Service, which administers AmeriCorps programs, notably. In this episode, Mr. Bagley discusses what goes into calibrating one's values over time, recent budget cuts to impact programs and nonprofits, and how community service organizations can navigate this moment of transition by strengthening their volunteer programs.

Reggie Watts is a musician, comedian, actor, improvisor, host, band leader, philosopher, beatboxer, and activist. You might know him from his run on The Late Late Show with James Corden and from numerous collaborations with some of the world's greatest comedians and performers. You may also appreciate his presence on social media where he speaks his mind openly and passionately. On The Good Standing Podcast, Reggie goes deeper into his thoughts on the direct economy, which is a paradigm that honors and recognizes that artists deserve to be the primary financial beneficiaries of the work they put out into the world. He outlines how fans can directly support artists to create a more sustainable and ethical creator industry.  This episode releases directly on the heels of (but was filmed before) the somewhat sudden announcement that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS) will be entirely ending in May, 2026 with no successor, likely due to backdoor politicking as much as the shifting financial realities of network television. To be expected, Reggie brings a tremendous amount of humor, lyrical dexterity, and good vibes to this conversation, along with his intelligent diagnoses of the media landscape as it stands.