Adam Grenier Bio

Adam Grenier lived and worked in Sierra Leone in 2008 as a Fellow with Kiva.org where he gained incredible, direct field experience in microfinance. Since that time, he has traveled to Colombia, Mongolia, Mexico, and Ecuador – the latter two with Tufts students as part of the Global Engagement Trip program – to continue his research in microfinance in an effort to bridge the academic with real world lessons. Adam volunteers with multiple economic development organizations in the Boston area and conducts research on the growing wealth gap in Boston in an effort to create practical solutions to shrinking the gap.  Adam also runs a family wealth management practice out of Cambridge with Fidelity Investments, where he has worked full-time for over 16 years.  He has successfully taught this course a number of times in the Experimental College.