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Paula Mann

Associate Dean of the Business School at Western Colorado University

Paula is the Associate Dean of the Business School at Western Colorado University. Before academia, Paula spent 20 years working on Wall Street at various diverse financial service firms.

Barbara Schreihans

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Your Tax Coach

Barbara Schreihans, MST, is the founder and CEO of Your Tax Coach, a tax strategy firm that specializes in helping business owners save money in taxes. She and her team love to educate their clients. They have helped their clients save over $20MM in taxes in 2021.

Nichole Williams, CPA

Sr. Tax Manager & Shareholder at Truepoint Wealth Counsel

Nichole helps solve complex problems and collaborates with other specialists across Truepoint to provide cohesive financial plans to clients. She believes that good tax preparation and organization should bring simplicity and peace of mind to clients’ lives. She especially enjoys digging into complicated and unique situations, addressing new challenges, and ultimately saving clients money. In her free time, Nichole likes to relax with her husband, children, and dogs, watch University of Kentucky sports, read, and take weekend trips with family and friends.

Dr. Katie Landgraf

DBA, MBA, CPA, Assistant Professor in Accounting at University of Hawai`i-West O`ahu

"Katie Landgraf, holding a Doctor of Business Administration from Walden University, has been a part of the University of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu since 2012. As an Assistant Professor, Dr. Landgraf primarily teaches Accounting classes but also engages in various campus activities. Dr. Landgraf serves on several committees, including Student Affairs, Assessment, and as the Accounting Club Advisor. She manages the accounting schedule and oversees lecturers. Dr. Landgraf involvement extends beyond campus as she volunteers with the FAFSA program at local high schools, assisting seniors and their families in navigating financial aid for college. Dr. Landgraf dedication to teaching earned her the 2014-2015 Board of Regents’ Excellence in Teaching Award, a recognition she treasures deeply."

James Clifton

Assistant Professor of Accounting Practice at North Dakota State University

James Clifton is an Assistant Professor of Accounting Practice at North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND.He has worked at NDSU steadily since the fall of 1998. Currently, he teaches Individual Income Taxation, Principles of Fraud Examination, Advanced Fraud Examination, and a graduate class titled Applied Professional Research. His research areas of interest are taxation and fraud. In addition to working at NDSU, he is also practicing CPA. he has been licensed in North Dakota since April 22, 1988.

Donna Bobek Schmitt, Ph.D.

Professor of Accounting, Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina

Donna Bobek Schmitt joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina in 2014 after 17 years at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She teaches graduate tax courses and mentors PhD students. She has received several teaching awards, most recently the 2017 DMSB Doctoral Student Association Professor of the Year Award. She conducts research on the judgment and decision-making, including ethical decision-making, of taxpayers and accounting professionals and has published in a number of academic journals including The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations & Society, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting (BRIA), and the Journal of Business Ethics. She is an Editor at BRIA, an Associate Editor at Accounting and the Public Interest, and on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Taxation Association. She is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant in Florida.

Edward Charles Randle, Ph.D., CPA

Assistant Professor of Accounting at Winthrop University

Dr. Randle is a native of Mississippi. He and his wife have two sons. In his free time, he enjoys reading, exercising, and spending time with his family. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting and his MBA from Jackson State University. Dr. Randle received his bachelor's degree in accounting from Mississippi State University. He is a CPA licensed in the state of Mississippi. He is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and a host of other organizations.

Brad Childs, Ph.D. J.D.

Professor of Accounting at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee

Brad Childs has been a college professor of accounting, including taxation, for 29 years, with over 20 years at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. I have published around 20 articles in various professional and academic journals on topics involving accounting, economics and taxation.

Vicki M. Stewart

Lecturer - Accounting/Business & Certified Public Accountant at the University of Tennessee-Martin

Vicki Stewart was a tax auditor for the State of Alabama for 25 years, auditing individuals and small businesses at the beginning of her career. In the last ten years, she was a foreign Audit Specialist and audited mostly Fortune 500 companies for corporate income and sales tax. She retired in 2015 and has taught accounting at the undergraduate level for seven years, starting at Texas A&M University-Commerce in 2016 and now at the University of Tennessee-Martin starting in 2022. She is currently working on her doctorate in Education at Texas A&M University-Commerce, with graduation anticipated in August 2023.

Eric Chaimowitz, CPA, CFP®

Senior Tax Manager at Truepoint Wealth Counsel

I am a CPA and CFP with over a decade of experience. I am a member of the Tax Team at Truepoint Wealth Counsel where I spend my days working on various tax planning projects for my clients and studying tax law, which I find to be similar to a puzzle. My specialty areas include individual, fiduciary, gift/estate, and business taxation. What I love most about what I do is helping clients achieve their financial goals in a tax efficient way.

Thomas M. Spade, CPA

Senior Instructor of Accounting, College of Charleston

Mr. Spade studied M.S. Accountancy (2007) at College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina. He's currently teaching Financial Accounting Principles, Managerial Accounting Principles, Intermediate Accounting II, Taxation of Individuals, and more. He has written articles for Taxes-The Tax Magazine, Family Law Quarterly, and The CPA Journal.

Stephanie G. Wendling, CPA, CFP®, MSTFP

Instructor at Widener University

Stephanie Wendling, CPA, CFP®, MSTFP, is an instructor at Widener University where she teaches tax and financial planning courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. Tax is the primary focus of her research. Stephanie received both her bachelors of business administration with a concentration in accounting and her Master's in Taxation and Financial Planning from Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania. She can be reached at sgwendling@widener.edu or One University Place, Chester, PA 19013.

Dr. Brian Routh

Assistant Professor of Accounting at Meredith College, School of Business

Dr. Brian Routh is an accounting professor at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC. He has taught at multiple colleges including the University of Southern Indiana, Washington State University, Louisiana State University, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Dr. Routh has had the opportunity to teach both face-to-face classes as well as multiple online courses (synchronous and asynchronous). In addition to teaching, he was an assistant state auditor with the North Carolina State Auditor's Office.

Hrishikesh (Hrish) Desai, Ph.D., CA, CFA

Assistant Professor of Accounting at Arkansas State University

Dr. Desai is an assistant professor of accounting in the College of Business at Arkansas State University (ASU). He is also the Director of the Master of Accountancy with Data Analytics Program at the university. Prior to joining the faculty, Dr. Desai was a Chazen Visiting Scholar at Columbia Business School. Dr. Desai holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Melbourne. He is also a Chartered Accountant (CA) and a CFA (USA) charterholder.

Caroline Chen, JD, LL.M

Associate Professor at San Jose State University

Caroline Chen is an expert in tax policy and law. She is a professor of tax at the Lucas College and Graduate School of Business at San Jose State University, was the Director of the Low-Income Tax Clinic at Santa Clara University School of Law and was an attorney for the Office of Chief Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service for over a decade.

James Hamill, Ph.D., CPA

Associate Professor of Accounting at Texas A&M University-Commerce

James Hamill is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with over 40 years of experience. He received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 1987 and specialized in taxation. Hamill taught at the University of Oklahoma and the University of New Mexico, transforming the accounting degrees into nationally-recognized programs. Twenty years into teaching, Hamill left the academic classroom and returned to the public practice. He worked for a local CPA firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, before moving to Northeast Texas in 2018. Since then, Hamill has played a vital role in the College of Business, bringing a wealth of knowledge and practical experience. Hamill is a Kenton and Eula Ross Professor of Accounting.

Jamieson Hopp, CFP®, ECA

Financial Planner at Millenial Wealth, LLC

Jamieson Hopp is a Certified Financial Planner® professional and equity compensation associate. CFP® professionals are held to strict ethical standards to ensure financial planning recommendations are in your best interest. An ECA is qualified in the fundamentals of equity compensation taxation, plan design, law, and very basic accounting and can address these topics intelligently with equity plan participants. Prior to joining Millennial Wealth, Jamieson worked at an independent RIA in Michigan for three years. After his experience working closely with retirees and pre-retirees in the midwest, he decided to be closer to home in Washington state to focus on his work with younger professionals.

Gregory Germain

Professor at Syracuse University College of Law

Professor Germain practiced bankruptcy law in Los Angeles and San Francisco for 17 years, worked as an Attorney Advisor to the United States Tax Court for a year, and has worked as a law professor at Syracuse University College of Law since 2002. In addition to teaching contracts, business associations, commercial transactions, bankruptcy and tax law, Professor Germain ran a bankruptcy clinic for indigent members of the Syracuse community seeking a fresh start.

Dr. Brandon Di Paolo Harrison

Assistant Professor of Accounting at Austin Peay State University

Dr. Di Paolo Harrison is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. He has over 20 years of accounting expertise, specializing in Healthcare Accounting as a consultant and Chief Financial Officer. His areas of research interest are financial reporting accuracy, healthcare accounting, accounting information systems, governmental and non-profit accounting, and data analytics for accounting.

Andrew Griffith

Associate Professor of Accounting, LaPenta School of Business of Iona University

Andrew Griffith, DBA, EA, CPA, CMA, CIA, CFE, CRMA, is an associate professor of accounting and has more than 15 years of full-time experience teaching graduate and undergraduate accounting courses at the university level. He also has more than 15 years of experience as a tax professional. He is the proprietor of Andrew Griffith CPA, a New York-registered public accounting firm.

Daniel Szpiro

Professor of Practice at the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University

Daniel Szpiro is a Professor of Practice at the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Dr. Szpiro teaches a variety of courses focused on accounting and financial management at business schools and with leading organizations around the world. He is an award-winning teacher, former senior university administrator and expert in a variety of financial management topics.

Anthony Rondinelli

Professor of Business at Springfield Technical Community College

Anthony is a tenured, full-time professor of business in the Business Administration Department at Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, MA. He is also a practicing accountant, and he teaches accounting, finance, management, marketing and economics courses. He has over 25 years of varied business experience, and he has been teaching for over 10 years. His passion is to help others succeed through business education and mentorship.

Haim Mozes, Ph.D.

Professor of Accounting and Taxation at Fordham University

Haim Mozes, Ph.D., is a Professor of Accounting at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business, where he has taught a variety of courses in accounting and finance since 1989. Dr. Mozes has published extensively on a wide range of investment subjects, with a focus on financial analysts and alternative investments. He received a Ph.D. in Accounting from New York University, a Masters in Statistics/Operations Research from New York University and a B.A. in Economics from Touro College.

Andrew Brajcich, J.D., LL.M., C.P.A.

Professor, Jud Regis Endowed Chair, Graduate Programs Director at Gonzaga University

Andrew is a Bow-tied tax prof working to bridge the gap between academia and business. He is currently the Washington Society of CPAs Chair and serves on the American Institute of CPA's S corp technical resource panel. He previously worked in international tax at Deloitte and in industry.

Xi Bai, DBA, CFS, CAS

Associate Professor of Finance and Accounting, Director of Financial Planning

Dr. Xi Bai holds a Doctor of Business Administration degree and is an accomplished expert in the areas of Fintech, Digital Finance, Personal Finance, Taxation, Estate Planning and Insurance Planning. With extensive years of experience in the finance industry, Dr. Bai possesses a wealth of knowledge and practical expertise, making her a valuable asset in both academia and the professional world.

George Birrell

Co-founder at Taxhub

After earning his master's degree in taxation and scoring in the top 10% of his class on his CPA exam, George began his career in public accounting. Twelve years in, he transitioned to controllership for an engineering firm in New York City. As his career evolved, it was never far from George's mind that there had to be a better way when it came to consumer tax prep. He found that way as an innovator, and the idea behind Taxhub took shape. Determined to give customers a better tax experience, George began discussing his ideas with skilled professionals he knew he'd need to move forward. He began assembling a team that could help bring his idea to fruition and serve a broad segment of the private tax-payer market.

Marie Solange Lopes

Assistant Professor of Accounting at Stonehill College

Dr. Solange Lopes is a professor, writer, and founder of The Corporate Sister, a career and business site and blog for professional women. She has written about a variety of topics from career to entrepreneurship, business, and lifestyle for working women. As a licensed Certified Public Accountant and educator, she enjoys teaching and writing about business, accounting, and financial topics.

Emily Goenner Munson

Assistant Professor of Business Communications at St. Cloud State University

Professor Munson is an assistant professor focused on creating positive and active learning environments to help students develop the communication skills needed to succeed in their chosen career fields, in both face-to-face and online environments. She is passionate about human stories and connections, understanding people and their backgrounds. She is also a voracious reader and devoted mom to four sons, five cats, and a dog.

Tasha Haynes, CPA

Certified Public Accountant & Blogger at Managing & Making Money

Tasha Haynes is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a blogger at Managing & Making Money. She has worked in accounting, finance and compliance for 15 years and holds a bachelor's in accounting and an MBA.

Thomas Kopelman

Co-Founder and Financial Partner at AllStreet Wealth

Thomas Kopelman is the co-founder of AllStreet Wealth, a financial planning firm for millennials who have equity comp or are business owners. He is also a "Top 23 Millennial Financial Planner" by Business Insider.

Vincent O. van Empeh, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Business at The University of Indianapolis

Dr. Vincent van Empeh teaches Marketing, Business Administration and Management and Entrepreneurship courses at the School of Business. He is also the Lead Faculty Advisor for the Capstone Project in the Master of Business Leadership and Design (MS SLD) Program at the Graduate School of Business, University of Indianapolis. Dr. van Empeh holds a Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences (Finance), an MBA in Global Management, a Graduate Degree in Economics, and a BS in Public Administration and Economics. As a scholar-practitioner, his crossover expertise between the business field and academia spans over 25 years in three industries: airline, banking and higher education management.

Robert Bergman

Professor of Marketing at Lewis University

Mr. Robert Bergman is a seasoned marketing professional — turned marketing professor. His expertise includes the various facets of marketing, digital marketing and an expertise in human and consumer behavior that drives the creation of great marketing strategy. Prior to joining Lewis University, he enjoyed 20 distinguished years in the field of marketing, management consulting, sales, sales management and corporate training. He has been both architect and witness to thousands of marketing campaigns — making the connection between “what works” and “what doesn’t work” — and helping others to create successful marketing strategy.

Agnes DeFranco

Professor and Conrad N. Hilton Distinguished Chair of the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management

A professor and the Conrad N. Hilton Distinguished Chair of the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, Agnes has also served as the Associate Dean and Interim Dean. Her research areas are mainly in hospitality accounting and finance. Agnes was a past global president of Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP) and past treasurer of International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE).

Sung Ham, Ph.D.

Associate Professor at Broad College of Business, Michigan State University

Professor Ham holds a Ph.D. from the University of Houston and has previously held positions at George Washington University and Kent State University. His research focuses on how managers, salespeople, and customers make strategic marketing decisions in laboratory, field and quasi experimental settings. Professor Ham's research expertise is in the broad areas of sales management, optimal pricing strategies and utilizing third-party review and authentication services. His research has been published in the International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science and Production and Operations Management. Relatedly, Professor Ham has served as a reviewer for Industrial Marketing Management, International Economic Review, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Asia Business Studies, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Management Science, Marketing Intelligence and Planning, Marketing Letters, Marketing Science, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management and the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. Finally, Professor Ham has contributed expert commentary about loyalty reward programs, consumer finance and insurance to media outlets such as WalletHub, MoneyGeek and LawFirm.com.

Ben Lourie

Associate Professor of Accounting at The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine

Ben Lourie serves as an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Merage School of Business, University of California-Irvine. His research centers around equity analysts, human capital and household finance. Ben's scholarly contributions have been recognized in esteemed academic journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Review of Finance. His research has also been highlighted in prominent media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Insider, Bloomberg, and International Business Times. Before his academic career, Ben was a senior consultant at Deloitte Management Consulting. He earned his PhD from the UCLA Anderson School of Business and has a bachelor's degree in economics from Tel Aviv University.

Babatunde Odusami, Ph.D., CFA

Professor of Economics and Finance at Widener University

Babatunde Odusami teaches security analysis and investment management, financial planning and financial management courses in the MBA and Master's in Tax and Financial Planning Program and financial management and quantitative methods courses in the undergraduate program. He is also a faculty adviser to the university's student-managed Large Cap Equity Fund and the Money Club. He holds an MBA with a concentration in management information systems and an MS and PhD in financial economics. He is also a chartered financial analyst (CFA) and a Microsoft Certified professional.

Scott Lail, Ph.D., MBA, MACC, CPA, CFE, CGMA, SPHR

Assistant Professor of Accounting at Wingate University

Scott works with Wingate University in the Porter B. Byrum School of Business where he teaches courses in Accounting and Business at the Graduate and Undergraduate levels. In addition to Wingate University, Scott also works with the University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH). Scott owns and operates scoots institutes llc, through which he performs: consulting, course review, program review, continuing education, and speaking services for a variety of clients. Scott's background includes time spent in Public Accounting with a specialization in Tax and Consulting.

Antar Salim, D.B.A.

Core Professor at St. Mary's University of Minnesota

After receiving his DBA from Argosy University (2013) with a research interest in the intersection between EI and Leadership success, Antar joined the staff at Saint Mary’s University in a full time capacity as an Associate faculty member. For the past seven years, Antar primarily teaches economics, finance, statistics, and ethics. As Dr. Salim’s academic interests evolve, he now includes Character Education, specifically, virtue ethics, into his various courses.

Dr. Bernhard Reichert

Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University

Bernhard Reichert gained professional experience at KPMG before his current role in academia. He has taught accounting to undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA students in Philadelphia and is now serving as an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. His academic pursuits include teaching managerial accounting to undergraduate and Ph.D. students. Dr. Reichert is an active member of the American Accounting Association and most recently served as the Communications Director for the Management Accounting Section.

Elaine Luther, D.Sc.

Business Management Professor at Point Park University

Professor Elaine Luther's education, work experience and professional affiliations provide the knowledge, skills and abilities required to teach in multiple disciplines across the Rowland School of Business and the University. Her regular course load extends from using her corporate and entrepreneurial experience when teaching freshmen in the Introduction to Business course to using her enrolled agent status (admitted to practice before the Internal Revenue Service) when helping advanced accounting majors master tax accounting. Luther draws upon her professional experience as well as her P.H.R. certification from the Society of Human Resource Managers when teaching human resource classes, including the capstone class for human resource majors. In addition, Luther helps administer student business plan contests at Point Park University and launched a course titled "HR Policies in Electronic Communications."

Caroline Bruckner

Professorial Lecturer Department of Accounting and Taxation

Caroline Bruckner is a tax professor on the American University Kogod School of Business faculty and is the managing director of the Kogod Tax Policy Center. She has testified multiple times before both U.S. House and Senate Congressional committees as well as the IRS. Since 2015, she has released ground-breaking research on the gig economy as well as women business owners and the U.S. tax code. In Oct. 2019, the Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Ron Wyden (D-OR), introduced legislation to address challenges women business owners have accessing capital prompted by Bruckner’s research. Earlier that year, she secured a grant from Wharton School of Business to publish research on women turning to gig economy work to shore up retirement income shortfalls, published in 2020. In addition, she is developing a Congressional witness testimony dataset that is the first-of-its-kind record of the diversity of Congressional witnesses in the federal legislative process. She teaches courses on business law, fundamental principles of federal income tax and business implications of the future of work.

Parker Ring, AWMA®

Associate Wealth Manager at Detterbeck Wealth Management

Parker Ring graduated from Clemson University in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Financial Management and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. He has worked as an associate wealth manager with a boutique RIA firm, Detterbeck Wealth Management, for over two years.

Dan Royer

Assistant Lecturer of Accounting at Ball State University

Dan W. Royer began his career working for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (Health Care Service Corporation), the fiscal intermediary for Medicare, where he earned his CPA and worked in the audit division, eventually serving as an audit manager. Dan has been a faculty member at several institutions, including Ivy Tech Community College, Colorado Christian University and Harrison College, for the last ten years. In these capacities, he taught several accounting and finance courses. He recently completed a Doctorate of Education degree in Adult, Higher, and Community Education at Ball State University.

Cynthia Turoski

Partner at The Bonadio Group

Cindi is a Partner within the Firm's Tax Service Line as well as a co-leader of the Firm’s Estate & Trust Team. With over 30 years of deep tax and financial planning experience, she provides consultative services to a wide variety of clients, further specializing in closely-held business owners. Her unique background in personal and business tax and finance enables her to understand the inherent issues and their effect on the owner’s personal finances.

Mark Ma

Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh

Mark Ma is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, Mark teaches Intermediate Financial Accounting. His research interests include capital market, financial reporting, tax reporting and corporate governance.

Carlo Silvesti

Adjunct Professor of Accounting at Gwynedd Mercy University

Carlo J. Silvesti has been a member of the Gwynedd Mercy University faculty since 2006. He teaches courses in all aspects of accounting, including Principles of Management and Economics. He earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from St. Joseph’s University and his master’s degree in business administration from Temple University. Prior to teaching at GMercyU, Professor Silvesti served as a financial officer for 35 years in middle market-sized businesses and taught accounting courses at Cabrini College as an adjunct professor. He served as president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA), and serves on the chapter’s Colleges and Universities Committee and the Accounting and Auditing Committee, and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the Institute of Management Accountants. His areas of expertise include individual taxation, managerial accounting and business planning. Check out his blog about the ins and Outs of Introductory Rate Credit Cards and Deferred Interest Programs on the PICPA blog and WalletHub articles on tips on applying for a balance transfer credit card for bad credit and credit cards for fair credit. Under Professor Silvesti's tutelage, GMercyU's CPA exam pass rate was ranked 16th in the nation in its category of very small schools, according to the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy.

Ellen Rackas

Assistant Professor of Accounting at Muhlenberg College

With more than 25 years of accounting experience, Ellen Rackas has worked in public accounting, mergers and acquisitions and now as an accounting professor. With a concentration in taxation, Ellen currently teaches courses in financial accounting, federal taxation and cost accounting.

Kaysian Gordon

Founder and Wealth Advisor at Kaysi Gordon Financial Planning

Kaysian Gordon is passionate about working with women who have faith in their finances. As a woman of faith, she understands how daunting it can be to share finances with a stranger. Her background of working in the financial arena for more than 20 years, first working with ultra-high-net-worth clients, and her ability to take complicated topics and discuss them in a simplified and relatable way sets her apart from many financial advisors you will meet.  She incorporates some of her own life situations, such as being a divorced mom and leaving a corporate career to pursue her dreams of empowering women in their own finances and helping them dream of bigger possibilities. She has published a faith blog weekly for over eight years, is the author of two faith devotionals, and co-authored a children’s book with her daughter.

Nicholas Robinson

Director of Accountancy at Eastern Illinois University

Nicholas is the assistant chair at Eastern Illinois University, overseeing accounting, finance, and business analytics and information systems. He teaches courses in taxation, business law, ethics and analytics.