Tim Ranzetta
Founder
Next Gen Personal Finance

Tim Ranzetta is the founder of Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF), a non-profit organization committed to providing all young people with access to a high quality, engaging financial education. After creating a personal finance course to educate first gen students at Eastside Prep in East Palo Alto, California, Tim saw the impact this course had on engaging ALL students as well as their parents. Founded in 2014, NGPF serves educators with a comprehensive set of resources from well-organized lesson plans to hands-on projects, activities and case studies. NGPF spends thousands of hours every year curating online content (videos, games, articles) with an educators’ mindset. Already, thousands of teachers in all fifty states rely on the NGPF website as their “one-stop” to support their personal finance classroom.

Mike Sheffer
Director of Education
The FoolProof Foundation

Mike Sheffer is FoolProof’s Director of Education and Board Member of the FoolProof Foundation. Recently retired after 32 years of teaching and coaching in the Corning-Painted Post School District in New York State. He was an International Baccalaureate Teacher of IB Business and Management, Personal Finance and Economics along with being the Business Department Chairperson at Corning Painted Post HS. . He has worked with the FoolProof team in the development of the FoolProof modules along with the teacher guides and teacher lesson plans.

Rhonda Ashburn
Executive Director
American Financial Services Association Education Foundation

As Rhonda leads the American Financial Services Association Education Foundation (AFSAEF), she is focused on the mission of educating consumers of all ages on personal finance concepts and helping them realize the benefits of responsible money management through the free financial literacy education program MoneySKILL. To date, more than one million students have completed the on-line curriculum comprised of 37 modules.
Prior to joining the NFCC, Rhonda spent nearly 24 years working for a career and technical student organization, Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA). During her tenure at FCCLA she oversaw, administered, and managed 13 major programs including Financial Fitness, which focused on helping individuals learn to make, save, and spend their money wisely.

Jessica Pelletier
Executive Director
FitMoney

Jessica Pelletier is the Executive Director of FitMoney. She brings extensive non-profit management, strategic planning and fundraising experience to FitMoney with over 20 years growing non-profit, private and political organizations. In her previous role as Co-National Director at Right to Play, she worked to implement play-based educational standards in disadvantaged communities around the world, traveling on several occasions to Africa to experience firsthand the benefits of accessible education for all. She is a long-time youth and educational advocate and promises further expansion of financial literacy across the country, especially focusing on positive financial behaviors starting as early as kindergarten.

Leslie Jones
Youth Financial Education Analyst
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Leslie Jones is a former business teacher, instructional designer, curriculum supervisor and developer. She advises on the benefits of K-12 financial education and the challenges of incorporating personal finance topics into K-12 courses. Leslie is a certified business teacher in Virginia. She was recognized in three editions (2000-2005) of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and was a member of the 2004 National Outstanding High School Business Department – sponsored by the Association Career and Technical Educators (ACTE). Leslie has a Master’s Degree in Instructional Design and Development from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA and two Bachelor’s Degrees: one from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH in Marketing Education and the other from Lake Erie College in Painesville, OH in Arts Management and Sales.

Steve Gamlin
Visualization Coach

If there is a more rewarding way to live his life than being a professional speaker, Steve Gamlin hasn’t discovered it yet. At the moment, he has no interest in changing course. He’s finding too much value in sharing the stage as Provider of Motivational Firewood™. After enjoying a successful decade in the radio industry, a series of life-decisions led to shifting gears from dark broadcast studios to the bright stage lights of business events and conferences. Blending humor and motivation, Steve’s programs deliver directly from his heart with frequent trips to the humor bank. His message and style have created solid results for sales teams, managers and association audiences as it targets the sweet spot of engagement between personal and professional aspirations.