Episode #7: Rich Tafel

Episode #7: Rich Tafel

Rich Tafel is a transformative leader in the areas of faith, politics and social impact. As the Managing Director of Raffa Social Capital Advisors he matches impact investors to vetted social ventures. Partnering with investors his team provides back office support, public policy and strategic coaching to social ventures. Rich is also the Director of the American Project a new Democracy Fund supported effort to bring together leading thinkers to imagine new solutions to America’s broken political system. The project is housed at Pepperdine School of Public Policy. Tafel is also pastor of Church of the Holy City in Washington DC, where he is launching a spiritual entrepreneur hub. Tafel is the founder of Log Cabin Republicans. Before moving to Washington DC, Tafel was Adolescent Health Director for the State of MA and served as Assistant Minister at Harvard’s Chapel.

In this episode of MIP, Nate, Ryan and Rich discuss Rich's unique background in politics and social entrepreneurship, being a gay Republican, "translating" between various worldviews, communicating through various platforms, leveraging the exhausted majority, the viability of 3rd parties, Trump, nationalism, and healthy conservatism, the necessity of authenticity and its shadow, embracing our own contradictory complexity, immersing ourselves in alien worldviews, working with rivalrous coalitions, transmuting self-interest into positive social impacts, postmodern conservatism, Rich's upcoming book, and much more.

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