Kyle Westaway

Kyle believes in the power of the market to create a positive social and environmental change. Kyle is the founding partner at Westaway Law- an innovative New York City law firm that counsels startups. He has helped build Biographe - a sustainable style brand that employs and empowers survivors of the commercial sex trade. Kyle is a Cordes Fellow. He lectures at Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School. He writes for Huffington Post and GOOD.

Education

• J.D. / M.A. Regent University School of Law (2004 — 2006)
• BS University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1997 — 2002)

Awards

• 2022
  Most Innovative Companies from Fast Company

• 2021
  World Changing Ideas from Fast Company

Writing

• 2022 - Jack Welch, The Man Who Broke Capitalism, Forbes
• 2021 - 4 Lessons On Entrepreneurship From World-Class Climber Kevin Jorgeson, Forbes
• 2021 - How To Raise Capital During Covid-19: Advice From VCs And Entrepreneurs Who Have Raised Over $300 Million In The Pandemic, Forbes
• 2021 - The First Public Benefit Corporation SPAC, Forbes
• 2020 - How To Support Black Entrepreneurs: Hire And Wire, Forbes
• 2020 - 20 Books For 2020: A Reading List On Race In America, Forbes
• 2013 - Startup Education and the Digital Economy, Wall Street Journal
• 2013 - Lead With Product, Wall Street Journal
• 2013 - Turkey is poised to cash in on a stable Somalia, Quartz
• 2013 - Kenyans Fearful, Defiant as Nairobi Mall Attack Appears to Wind Down, TIME
• 2013 - How Burt's Bees made Clorox more sustainable, The Guardian
• 2013 - Benefit corporations: can investors have their cake and eat it?, The Gaurdian
• 2011 - Adam Smith Was Not Schizophrenic, Harvard Business Review
• 2011 - New Legal Structures for 'Social Entrepreneurs', Wall Street Journal