Hope Wollensack

Hope Wollensack is the founder and Executive Director of the Georgia Resilience & Opportunity (GRO) Fund. GRO brings to life bold, evidence-based, and community-driven solutions to eliminate poverty and narrow the racial wealth gap. GRO’s work includes the In Her Hands’ guaranteed income program, a $30M initiative serving over 900 Black women across Georgia, and the first accelerated Baby Bonds pilot program which will provide young people in Georgia with $40,000 to build wealth. 

She began her career as an organizer, teacher, and assistant principal. After serving nearly a thousand students, Hope wanted to address the root causes that forced children to live in economically violent conditions and that limited their lives and opportunities.  

Her work is rooted in her upbringing in New Haven, CT. Hope earned her Master of Public Affairs from Princeton’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University, where she helped found the Africana Studies program.