The R.A.C.E. Podcast

Living Into Your Humanity with Joe Sciortino

• Keecha Harris • Season 3 • Episode 41

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Welcome to Episode 12 of Season 3 of The R.A.C.E. Podcast. Today I am so excited to welcome Joe Sciortino, Executive Director of The Schmidt Family Foundation. Join us as we delve into Humanity, Racial Equity, and Philanthropy. This conversation has been in the making for the last decade and I am truly honored to have shared the space and the journey with Joe.

Meet Joe Sciortino:

Joseph Sciortino is the Executive Director of the Schmidt Family Foundation, overseeing all grantmaking and impact investing across the foundation’s various programs and initiatives.

Having been with the foundation since its inception in 2006, Joe now manages a team of dedicated professionals working to advance clean energy, strengthen regenerative food systems, protect human rights and restore ocean health.

Joe is proud to be an active participant in the nonprofit sector, including as a partner to the Democracy Frontlines Fund. He has spent many years volunteering in the Bay Area, including with the Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary, AIDS LifeCycle, Project Homeless Connect and as a court-appointed special advocate (CASA) for foster youth.

You can often find Joe cycling around the country to visit many of the foundation’s partners, from regenerative farmers in Iowa to frontline communities confronting Big Oil in Los Angeles.

He holds a Master of Science in environmental management from The University of San Francisco (USF) and a Bachelor of Science in finance and marketing from New York University.


Listen in as Joe shares:

  • His identities and what it means for him to be white and how it informs how he leads on Race.
  • The journey to recognizing his unactualized power as a white leader and how to use it for good
  • What it has meant to evolve his consciousness around racial equity as a leader and what his responsibilities are
  • The top 3 priorities currently for the Foundation in terms of Racial equity
  • What advice he would give to his younger self
  • And so much more



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