Fanta is the Director of Business and Human Rights, working to engage, mobilize, and convene a network of 300 investors—who collectively manage $7 trillion in assets globally—as well as corporations to integrate social justice issues into their business and investment practices. In this role, Fanta scaled the department’s strategic programmatic focus on critical issues including the rights and dignity of workers, ethical tech, DEI and access to capital for underrepresented fund managers, stopping the financing of mass incarceration, and just transition. Most recently, Fanta led the team’s efforts in engaging with civil society advocates and investors on AI, ethics, and investments.

Prior to joining Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Fanta was a Global Product Marketer at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, providing marketing support, both onshore and offshore, for its Global Liquidity Business. In that role, Fanta helped to launch and build out marketing content for the Liquidity Team’s Ultra-Short Income Portfolio, which was the fastest-growing mutual fund in the U.S. in 2017. Due to the success of the fund, Fanta aided in the launch of a tax-exempt version of this fund in the U.S. as well as an offshore version, supporting marketing activities for launch and external promotions. Fanta was involved in various campaigns and product launches as well as the firm’s CSR efforts, and was tasked to project manage—alongside senior leaders at the firm— the strategy and development of marketing content for Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s ESG and Sustainable Investing efforts. She is the co-founder of a developing nonprofit in Accra, Ghana, Protecting the Rights Of the Marginalized and Oppressed (PROMO), which seeks to address the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS in Ghana, focusing on not only treatment and prevention, but also the socio-cultural factors that can affect an HIV positive woman’s wellbeing.

Fanta holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from New York University and a Master of Public Health from George Washington University. Outside of work, Fanta enjoys baking, hosting gatherings with friends and family members, and discovering new cities and restaurants.