Welcome Remarks
Laura Levine, Jump$tart Coalition President and CEO
During the live virtual event, participants are encouraged to ask questions of our panelists by using the Zoom chat function.
Inclusive Financial Education Outreach: How to Engage Diverse Communities—Rhonda Ashburn, executive director of the AFSA Education Foundation and Secretary, Jump$tart National Board of Directors, will lead a discussion with expert panelists representing different communities and demographics.
The Impact of Digital Finance on Personal Finance Education— Gene Natali, author of The Missing Semester and founder and CEO, Troutwood, will discuss new trends in digital finance and what we need to know to educator today’s students. The session will be moderated by Corey Carlisle, executive director, ABA Foundation and vice chairman, Jump$tart National Board of Directors.
Answering the Critics: Yes, Financial Education Works! Mike Staten, Associate Dean for Career and Academic Services, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona, and Jump$tart National Chairman will lead a discussion with our community’s leading researchers on why we know that financial education works.
“One of the most valuable things about Jump$tart is its ability to bring together a wide range of constituents interested in financial literacy. Whether you’re big or small, government or for-profit, or academic … Jump$tart represents all of us.”
