About

Jess Brooks, Sunwealth

Jess Brooks is Chief Development Officer at Sunwealth, a renewable energy investment firm on a mission to build a more inclusive clean energy future. She helps individuals, foundations and organizations put their money to work in human-centered solar projects delivering clean energy and savings to communities, jobs and revenues to local solar developers and installers, and strong, stable fixed income returns to investors. Sunwealth was named 2021 company of the year by Solar Energy Business Association of New England for its work to build a more inclusive clean energy economy; the company was also featured in the 2022 ImpactAssets 50; its Solar Impact Fund won Environmental Finance’s 2022 Bond Award for Innovation – Bond Structuring (Social Funds). Prior to joining Sunwealth, Jess worked at BlueHub Capital, a Boston-based CDFI, where she helped grow assets under management from $60 million to over $1 billion, leveraging over $5 billion in public and private investment in underserved communities nationwide. Jess has previously worked at The New York Times Company, as a trader on Wall Street, and in a large social services nonprofit. An active civic leader, Jess serves on boards of Generation Citizen Massachusetts, First Teacher, and The Carrot Project, and chairs Brown University's Advisory Council on Relations with Tougaloo College, a historically black college in Mississippi. Jess holds a BA from Brown University. She lives in Newton with her partner and two sons.