Jaime is the Managing Director of Impact Investments at Common Future, where she leads lending and investments into community-rooted organizations to increase access, affordability, and power by providing catalytic capital and back office support.

Jaime is a Co-founder and former Co-CEO of Native Women Lead, where she led key initiatives in program design, capital strategies, advancement, and partnership development while overseeing data sovereignty, evaluation, and impact. Here, Jaime served as one of the primary architects of the Equality Can’t Challenge - the prospectus and competition that seeded $10mm into The Future is Indigenous Women initiative.

Jaime currently serves on UpTogether’s Board of Directors, Kiva U.S. Advisory Board, and Justice Funders Governing body - recently co-developing the Justice Funders - Just Transition in Investment Framework which will allocate at least $5mm to Indigenous Rematriation and LandBack efforts. As an intersectional movement builder, Jaime has worked on or continues to work with Justice Funders, Kindle Project’s Indigenous Women’s Flow Fund, the Trauma of Money, and NDN Collective’s - Collective Abundance Fund.

Jaime is a fellow with the Center for Community Investment, Purpose Foundation, Boston Impact Initiative, New Mexico Tribal Data Champions, and Opportunity Finance Network. Prior to her work at Common Future, Jaime began her career in finance when she developed Dreamspring’s (formerly Accion) Native Lending program and supported the development of Nusenda’s Co-Op Capital relationship-based lending initiative with Roanhorse Consulting LLC.

Jaime is a mother of three, residing in Tiwa Territory (Albuquerque, New Mexico), and from the Navajo and White Mountain Apache Nations.