Kyonne Isaac, Founder & CEO, AbundantPhilly Interview | RNG Radio Show | Ep. 246

Kyonne Isaac is the founder and CEO of AbundantPhilly – a land stewardship and education firm with a mission to help organizations and individuals build their capacity to grow a more abundant life. As a real estate investor, urban gardening educator and business development consultant, Kyonne has dedicated her life’s work to finding solutions to our community’s largest needs: financial planning, food and affordable housing. She has spent over a decade creating successful social impact programs and leading strategic business planning for nonprofits; including restructuring business and finance operations for Philadelphia’s oldest urban farm, and most recently, expanding the homeownership and home repair programs to triple the families served annually for the Philadelphia branch of Habitat for Humanity in two years. She now contracts with institutions like the Tiger Woods Foundation and Philadelphia Horticultural Society as an urban park developer and gardening educator; and works with Pew Foundation as a professional coach for leaders looking to bring innovative, equitable change to their organizations. Before moving to Philadelphia, Kyonne earned her B.A. in psychology with honors from Stanford University and earned a master’s degree in social psychology & social policy from Princeton University under a fellowship with the National Science Foundation. In between her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, she worked as a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley and as project manager for the World Bank, where she conducted research on the best practices for training entrepreneurs looking to build businesses with a social impact in Uganda and the United States. She became an incidental real estate investor since 2006, when she inherited property in another state; but has since she's found her stride as a purpose-driven entrepreneur, educator and affordable housing provider – bringing new life to distressed small apartment buildings and neglected green spaces here in the city. Every month, she co-leads a mastermind group for women in real estate called the Philadelphia InvestHER Community. Kyonne considers herself to be a principled land steward, concentrating on growing both the affordable housing space and urban green space development here in Philadelphia. She documents her journey growing her real estate portfolio and building parks & gardens on her blog www.AbundantPhilly.com.