Samantha Power is a Co-Founder and the Director of the BioFi Project and the Founder and Principal Consultant of Finance for Gaia. She is a Regenerative Economist, Futurist, and Bioregionalist based in Oakland, CA on the ancestral land of the Ohlone people. She is a co-author of the book, 'Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet.' Samantha believes we need to build a new layer in the global financial architecture to halt the sixth mass extinction and she is dedicating her life to doing just that. For 15 years now, Samantha has been asking “How do we change where money is flowing so that it supports, rather than destroys, life?” This question has taken her to many different geographies, communities, and institutions — from rapidly disappearing rainforests across Southeast Asia, women’s community lending circles in Myanmar, the US Treasury Department, the UN, the World Bank, as well as the impact investing community. Ultimately, it landed her amidst the redwoods in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Samantha took stock of what she had learned trying to change financial flows from the top down. She began deepening her listening to the people she saw doing the most urgent work in the world right now: regenerating the Earth’s lands and waters. She learned that the Indigenous land stewards, regenerative farmers, community builders, and regenerative systems designers from around the world were not able to access the financial resources needed to support their critical work, and imagined a set of new bioregional-scale financial institutions and organizing infrastructure, strategically coordinated to regenerate ecosystems and economic systems at scale. Samantha channeled what she learned into a new book: 'Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet.' The book makes the case for, and explains how to build institutions to shift capital to place-based regenerators to achieve global climate and nature-related goals, while enabling the transition to regenerative economies. To turn this vision into a global movement, Samantha co-founded the BioFi Project — a collective of experts supporting bioregions around the world to design, build, and implement BFFs inspired by the templates laid out in the book.