$1 Trillion for Healing:A Conversation with Edgar Villanueva, CEO of the Decolonizing Wealth Project

Edgar Villanueva is an award-winning author, speaker, strategist, and founder and CEO of the Decolonizing Wealth Project and Liberated Capital. An enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe, Edgar has become one of the leading voices challenging philanthropy to rethink its relationship with wealth, power, healing, and reparative action. His bestselling book, Decolonizing Wealth, sparked conversations across the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors about generosity, justice, and what it means to repair harm through the movement of money. Today, through the Decolonizing Wealth Project, Edgar is leading Moonshot — an ambitious 10-year effort to catalyze 1 trillion dollars in reparative giving grounded in dignity, reciprocity, and healing. In this episode, we talk about Edgar’s journey from home to national leadership, the spiritual dimensions of money and philanthropy, the resistance and response to his work, what reparative philanthropy actually means in practice, and why he believes healingmust sit at the center of the conversation about wealth.