Konda Mason

Co-Founder, Board Member, & Resource Council Member

Konda Mason is a social entrepreneur, finance activist, earth and social justice activist and mindfulness teacher. She is the Co-founder and President of Jubilee Justice, Inc., a nonprofit working to bring climate-resilient farming and economic equity to BIPOC farmers in the rural South in order to restore and accelerate Black land stewardship and create thriving Black farming communities. Jubilee Justice also convenes transformational learning journeys across race and class, exploring conversations at the intersection of Land, Race, Money, & Spirit. She is also the Co-founder of Potlikker Capital, a charitable loan fund specially designed to deploy “reparative” capital to Black American farmers. 

Konda is Co-Founder and founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland (newly renamed Emerge Oakland), an award-winning co-working space that supports socially engaged entrepreneurs and changemakers. She is also the Strategic Director of RUNWAY, a micro-lending fund for African American entrepreneurs, and the co-founder of the annual COCAP (Community Capital) conference in Oakland, which focuses on closing the racial wealth gap, restorative economics and the next economy just transition. 

Along with her partner, actor Woody Harrelson, Konda opened the first home delivery service of organic food in the Los Angeles area and negotiated the first organic food section in a major supermarket in the area.  

Ms. Mason holds a Permaculture Design Certificate from Commonweal Institute, an honorary MBA from Presidio Graduate School of Business, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in Rhetoric and Philosophy. Konda teaches mindfulness at retreat centers throughout the United States of America. 

Konda is on the Board of Directors of The Historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis, TN, On Being with Krista Tippett, One Generation with Paul Hawken, Lion’s Roar Magazine, and One Step Closer (OSC).

In 2019, Konda was honored as one of the Top 35 World-Changing Women in Conscious Business, a list of courageous female-identifying game-changers paving the way for positive global impact.