The Obama Foundation Leaders USA 2025-2026 cohort with President Barack Obama, March 19, 2026.
Jamaal Glenn, chief financial officer of SoLo Funds and founder of JG Holdings, joined a one-hour roundtable conversation with President Barack Obama as a member of the Obama Foundation Leaders USA program's 2025-2026 cohort of about 100 leaders from across the United States.
The conversation, held over Zoom on March 19, 2026, came as the cohort neared graduation from the Obama Foundation Leaders USA program. During the roundtable, Glenn discussed with President Obama the economic anxiety reaching white-collar professionals amid layoffs, job insecurity and uncertainty around AI, and how to sustain optimism and shared purpose through that disruption.
Glenn chairs the board of directors of Pivot Fund and serves as audit and finance chair of LION. He writes about finance, AI and work at Jamaal's Letter on Substack.