Barbara Angelicola-Manzolli

Barbara Angelicola-Manzolli is in her 21st year teaching at Lewis S. Mills High School, Burlington, CT and is very excited that Connecticut was the 21st state to make personal finance a graduation requirement!

Carey Barzeski

Carey Barzeski empowers her students with financial literacy as a personal finance and business teacher at McDowell High School in Erie, PA. Her commitment to promoting financial education has garnered recognition from both her school district and Pennsylvania’s Auditor General and earned her the Next Gen Personal Finance’s Distinguished Educator Award. She's excited to meet the NGPF team in person!

Carrie Forsythe

During the past 30+ years, Carrie Forsythe has been teaching various math and computer science classes. She is currently teaching a full day of Business & Personal Finance, for 12th grade students in need of elective or math credits. Carrie attended her first NGPF Conference in January 2020 and has been using NGPF every since.

Christopher Jackson

Mr. Jackson redesigns College and Career Readiness coursework to include financial literacy components. His purpose is to influence generations that he will never see by increasing students' financial literacy and decreasing the generational wealth gap.

Derek D'Angelo

Derek D'Angelo is the president of the Michigan Council on Economic Education and Curriculum Development Director for the Foundation for Economic Education. He is a NGPF Fellow who helped champion the graduation guarantee to ensure all Michigan students have access to a personal finance course. Something you may not know is that Insurance is Derek's favorite personal finance topic!

Diane Mondoro

Diane is the Career and Technical Education Coordinator for Franklin Township Public Schools. She has been teaching personal finance since she discovered NGPF in 2014. In her CTE role, she incorporates both personal finance and career education as she helps to place students in jobs and internships. Diane also serves as a Financial Empowerment volunteer at a shelter for domestic abuse victims and their families. In her free time, she enjoys reading and traveling!

Emily Larson

Emily Larson is in her 18th year of teaching High School Social Studies. She primarily teaches Personal Finance and AP Psychology at Mahtomedi High School in the suburbs of St. Paul, MN.

Ivonne Perez

Ivonne Perez has been a Special Education teacher for 25 years for GISD. Currently working at Santa Teresa High School teaching a Living Skills Class. Teaching the students pre-vocational skills including money management and problem-solving as well as employability skills which are necessary to transition to post-high school life.

Jacqueline Gronwald

Jacqueline has been teaching in North Carolina at Ragsdale High School for 17 years. She is very passionate about teaching students and educators the importance of saving for retirement early and achieving financial independence.

Joey Running

Joey Running is a veteran educator and advocate of required personal finance courses for all high school students. She was selected as an NGPF Fellow in 2017 and recognized as the 2022 WBEA Business Educator of the Year. She serves as a volunteer for the Oregon Council on Economic Education, and in her role as Past President of the Oregon Business Education Association, she continues to support its mission to recognize, encourage, and promote excellence in business disciplines and to provide networking and professional opportunities for its members and throughout the state.

Juana Andrade Batalla

Juana Andrade Batalla teaches at Madison Senior High School in Rexburg, ID. Juana is a lifelong learner and has been teaching for eight years now from junior high to undergraduate students. She likes sharing financial advice and teaching young students about proper financial management and mathematics.

Kelle Griffin

Kelle Griffin is an 11-year ELA teacher turned personal finance/business teacher and advocate for financial literacy.

Laura Falk

Laura Falk is a Family and Consumer Sciences teacher who has been teaching for 19 years. She currently teaches at Fairbanks High School in Milford Center, Ohio. Laura teaches Personal Financial Management, Transitions and Careers, Principles of Foods, Global Foods, and Child Development. In her free time, she enjoys playing sand volleyball, hiking, and hanging out with her husband and 3 children.

Maggie Robles

Maggie Robles has taught HS Mathematics for the past 20 years in Southern California, but has specialized in the creation & growth of the Financial Algebra elective course throughout the Corona-Norco Unified School District over the past 7 years. In addition to being a life-long advocate for financial literacy, Maggie enjoys vacationing with her family in Hawaii and any other location that Disney travels to :)

Marcia Latta

Marcia has worked in many roles in education administration—primarily in communications, finance elections and bond campaigns. She currently teaches business at McKay High School in Salem, OR where she runs the school credit union branch and also focus on financial literacy in Intro to Business classes. She is very happy that Oregon has joined other states in making the subject a graduation requirement.

Melissa Williams

Melissa is a Mathematics teacher at Pickens High School. She has a Master's in Secondary Mathematics and a BS in Mathematics Teaching that she received from Clemson University. She is married and has two children.

Renay Meissner

Renay Meissner has been teaching business at Spencer-Van Etten HS in Spencer, NY since 2000. She teaches Personal Finance, college Personal Finance, Accounting, college Accounting, Business Law, and college Excel class.

Samantha Drost

Samantha (Sammi) is a consumer economics teacher at Caribou High School in Caribou, ME. She also sits on the Maine Jump$tart Board of Directors as Secretary, Maine Jump$tart Teacher Leader and the 2019-2020 Maine Jump$tart Teacher of the Year. This year, she's been working with the MDoE to strengthen personal finance standards and spoke to the Maine Congressional Committee on Education to encourage Maine to require PF as a graduation requirement.

Shawn Brigham

Shawn Brigham has taught Personal Finance and Dual Credit Economics. He holds a Master’s in Personal Finance with an additional 18 graduate hrs in Economics. Shawn is currently working on his M.Ed. in Educational Technology Leadership. Along with helping educate students about the importance of financial literacy, he is a Financial Counselor for the U.S. Military as well.

Dr. Tamaine Prince

Dr. Tamaine Prince has 19 years of teaching experience as a High School Math Teacher. She has recently taken on Personal Finance and has since incorporated financial literacy into math lessons. Her undergraduate degree is from Alabama State University, and her graduate degrees are from Georgia Tech, Lincoln Memorial University, and Georgia Southern University. She spends her spare time with her husband and four children.

Tammy Ravel

Tammy Ravel is a Business and English instructor at Galesburg Junior Senior High School in Illinois. She is in her 22nd year teaching and always looking for opportunities to learn more and share that knowledge with my students. 

Tracy Laird

Tracy Laird is in her 26th year as a Business/Marketing teacher. Currently, she is in her ninth year at Prairie Grove High School in Prairie Grove, Arkansas. She loves telling her students that Personal Finance is the most important class they will ever take.

Windsor Estime

Windsor Estime has been teaching since 2011. She has taught Economics, American Government and for the past 4 years Personal Finance at Lake Worth Comm. High School.