Breakout Sessions
Money Talks: Economic Literacy for the Next Generation
Session Track: Surge with Savvy
Given long-standing gender disparity in pay and income, it is crucial that women gain a sense of economic justice so that they can better understand and assert rights relevant not only to their own economic well-being, but also the economic wellbeing of all girls and women, their families, their communities, their country, and their world. This session will explore how to support economic literacy for young women and girls and consider the implicit and explicit financial messages we receive and send. Participants will examine the effects early experiences with money have on attitudes and behaviors and will later articulate their vision for the economic future of women and girls in their lives.
Jazmyn Becker
Program Director - YWCA Minneapolis
Jazmyn Becker is the Girls Inc. program director at YWCA Minneapolis and has a passion for gender equity programming. She is a former educator and Challenge Detroit Fellow, and is a trained YPQA External Assessor and DOS STEM Assessor. She also serves on the County Extension Committee (University of Minnesota Extension) and volunteers with Dress for Success Twin Cities. She graduated summa cum laude from Illinois Wesleyan University with a BA in business and educational policy.