Dela Wilson

Deloris Dela Wilson is the Founder and Principal of Axle Impact Studio, a social impact design firm repositioning economies, institutions, and human behavior for equity. As a strategist and writer, her work seeks to decolonize development efforts through an intentional redirection of capital, influence, and opportunity. She has worked across eight countries to maximize corporate impact, seed innovation in post-colonial states, and design strategies that reallocate resources for Black and...See more

Deloris Dela Wilson is the Founder and Principal of Axle Impact Studio, a social impact design firm repositioning economies, institutions, and human behavior for equity. As a strategist and writer, her work seeks to decolonize development efforts through an intentional redirection of capital, influence, and opportunity. She has worked across eight countries to maximize corporate impact, seed innovation in post-colonial states, and design strategies that reallocate resources for Black and Indigenous entrepreneurs, innovators, and nonprofit executives. Her strategies for entrepreneurial ecosystem development, culturally-relevant approaches to public health, and transnational racial equity span Georgetown University's Institute of Technology Law and Policy, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University, and the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy (previously as Editor-in-Chief). As a graduate of Spelman College (BA, summa cum laude, political science), Georgetown University Law Center (JD), and Harvard Kennedy School of Government (MPA), she is also a Global Fellow of the Atlantic Institute and Senior Fellow for the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity. She is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, Forbes Mastermind, and was recognized in 2019 as a 31 Under 31 for the Future of Venture Capital by HBCUvc. See less