Alexander “Brave Journey” Sterling is Co-Founder and CEO of Turtle Island Community Capital, an emerging Native-led CDFI building the capital infrastructure Indigenous communities need to shape their own futures. His work sits at the intersection of impact investing, community development, and national field building, advancing models that move power, resources, and decision-making closer to communities. Alexander works across movements to strengthen relationships among investors, funders, CDFIs, and community leaders, championing a more relational and regenerative financial system rooted in sovereignty, reciprocity, shared prosperity, and long-term community resilience. He remains committed to building durable pathways for Indigenous self-determination and intergenerational wealth.