Meet the author

Sevetri Wilson is the Founder and CEO of Resilia, a SaaS technology platform that helps nonprofit organizations increase capacity, and enables funders to scale impact and provide on-demand technical assistance to their partners. Headquartered in New Orleans with a second office in New York, Resilia was named a Venture Beat top startup to watch out for in 2019 and a Rising Star on the 2020 Forbes Cloud 100 List. Sevetri was honored in Inc. Magazine’s 100 Female Founders building world-changing companies and in PitchBook’s 27 leading Black founders and investor list in 2019. In 2022, she was recognized on Black Enterprise’s 40 under 40 list and among Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Women of Influence. Sevetri became one of only 50 Black women in the U.S. to have raised over $15M in venture funding in 2020, and in 2022, she earned the distinction of achieving the largest single funding raise ever ($35M) for a solo Black female-founded tech company. Prior to Resilia, Sevetri founded Solid Ground Innovations, LLC., a nonprofit management and strategic communications agency. She is a 2010 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Public Service and the Jefferson Award, and her work was featured in the U.S. Senate report to the White House on Volunteerism in the U.S., under President Obama. Sevetri’s second book, Resilient: How to Overcome Anything and Build a Million Dollar Business With or Without Capital, was released in 2021 and became an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller. Her work and that of her clients has been featured in national publications such as USA Today, Time, Forbes, and CNN. A graduate of Louisiana State University and Harvard University, Sevetri serves as a voice for communities as a Forbes contributor and has amassed a loyal following of over 200,000 across social media. Learn more about Sevetri at SevetriWilson.com, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.