Conference in D.C.

We just got back from the annual Financial Literacy Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. I almost didn’t go because I had to miss school to do it, but it was a good decision to go because we are just starting out and there are a lot of things to learn about teaching wealth education. Also, there were many potential partners there that we might be able to work with.
When we first arrived I met Ted Daniels. Ted is the founder of his own foundation and is on the President’s Council for Financial Literacy. This was the 3rd Annual Conference his foundation has organized. We had Rosie Rios for the opening speaker. We also met his daughter Una. It seems like she helps run their foundation and was running the details of the conference. She knew my dad and was very nice to us.
Another person we met was Shante’, from the Urban Affairs Coalition. She was one of the presenters and she’s the Director of a program in Philadelphia that seems perfect for us to team up with. Hopefully we’ll have more on that later.
We got to learn about the financial literacy world and meet people to help expand our foundation. It was a win win. There were lots of workshops to choose from. We decided in the car on the way down which workshops we’d spend our weekend going to. We chose the workshops we felt would most benefit us and took notes on what the experienced presenters had to say. One of the workshops was about Cultural Differences and Financial Education and we met Holly Chase, who works at the Pennsylvania Office of Financial Education.
Overall it was a very beneficial trip for us and we look forward to going to the conference next year.