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William Michael Cunningham is an economist, investment researcher, and ESG/Impact investing analyst. Cunningham researches, evaluates, develops, and creates unique high social impact investment vehicles.

He is founder of Creative Investment Research, MinorityBank.com, DiversityFund.com, and MinorityFinance.com. Mr. Cunningham is the author of The JOBS Act: Crowdfunding for Small Businesses and Startups, published by Apress. William has given keynote economic forecasting talks before the Financial Planning Association, the National Minority Supplier Development Council, Texas Association of Black Chambers of Commerce, the Denton, Dallas and Houston Black Chambers of Commerce. He spoke at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, at the Harvard Business School and at the Wharton School of Business DC Innovation Summit. He has given talks on social and impact investing in Finland, Switzerland, England, and Germany.

He has contributed to The Washington Post, the American Banker Newspaper, Black Enterprise Magazine, and Morning Consult. As a strong advocate for the integration of human values in finance, he develops new ways to combine social values and investing.

Cunningham has been involved in the provision of online resources to small businesses for over twenty-five years, posting his first website in 1995. In 2002, he published a proposal for an early version of crowdfunding. Cunningham graduated from Howard University with a BA in Economics. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he earned his Master of Business Administration degree. He also holds a masters in economics from the University of Chicago.