Join CommonBondz for a discussion on racism and wealth inequality in America with Saul Martinez, Managing Director of Equity Research from UBS and Frederick Wherry, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. The discussion will be facilitated by Ed Hawthorne, Chief Administrative Officer at CE3 Solutions, LLC.

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Saul Martinez is currently a Managing Director at UBS and has 22 years of experience in equity research and investment banking at various Wall Street firms. Saul has led teams analyzing banks, consumer finance companies, and life insurers in the US and Latin America. Saul has a Masters in Public Affairs focused on Economics from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and he graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a Bachelors degree in Political Science.

Frederick Wherry is a Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and Director of the Dignity and Debt Network, a partnership between the Social Science Research Council and Princeton. He, Kristin Seefeldt, and Alvarez Alvarez are the authors of Credit Where It’s Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship. The book includes a Foreword by José A. Quiñonez. Wherry is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Consumption (with Ian Woodward, forthcoming September 2019) and he is editor of the four-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Economics and Society as well as Money Talks: How Money Really Works (with Nina Bandelj and Viviana A. Zelizer). He is the author or editor of four other books or volumes. He edits a book series at Stanford University Press: Culture and Economic Life, with Jennifer Lena and Greta Hsu. He was the 2018 President of the Social Science History Association and the past chair of the Economic Sociology Section and the Consumers and of the Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association. He has served on numerous editorial boards and on the policy board of the Journal of Consumer Research. He participates in a working group on work and wealth at the Aspen Institute and serves in an advisory capacity to the Boston Federal Reserve (Community Development Research Advisory Council) and the Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business at the Birmingham Business School (UK). Before joining the Princeton Department he was a Professor of Sociology at Yale University and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. He has also served on the faculty of the University of Michigan and Columbia University. He currently serves as a Selector for the Luce Scholars Program (Henry Luce Foundation). He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar, his MPA from The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and his PhD in Sociology from Princeton.

Edward T. Hawthorne, founder and managing partner of CE3 Solutions, LLC, serves as Chief Administrative Officer, after a 33 year career with Bank of America. Hawthorne has a dynamic professional background, having held various senior positions within Bank of America covering technology, operational risk, and customer servicing worldwide. During his tenure at Bank of America, he and his team developed a comprehensive system and corresponding methods for identifying and managing Operational Risk Assessments and Control, applying for and being subsequently awarded a U.S. Patent.

Hawthorne and his family reside in California. He is actively engaged in serving his community and is committed to finding a cure for diabetes and improving the lives of all people living with diabetes. He currently sits on the board for the National Diabetes Volunteer Leadership Council and the Emeritus Council for the American Diabetes Association. He has served as Chairman of the National Board of Directors for the American Diabetes Association, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the California Affiliate of the American Diabetes Association, and various committees for the association. He has served on the Board of Directors for the San Francisco Museum of African Diaspora, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors for the American Red Cross of the Bay Area and member of the National Nominating Committee, and the Board of Directors for the March of Dimes for the Bay and Chairman of the Contra Costa March of Dimes WalkAmerica. Hawthorne has also served as Chairman and Director Emeritus of the Strategic Advisory Board for the International Help Desk Institute, and Advisory Boards for Meris Consulting, Digital Fuel, Convergys, LivePerson, and the Risk Management Association IT Committee.