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Staff

President + CEO

Chief Finance + Operations Officer

Christie Kimbell

Chief Experience Officer

Taylor C. Nelms

Senior Director, Research

Senior Director, Advisory Services

Senior Director, Membership

Senior Director, Marketing + Communications

Senior Director, Incubation

Stewardship + Development Director

Custom Research Director

Cortney Angeley

Community Development Director

Finance Director

Jeremy Tollefson

Executive Relations Director

Business Services Director

Creative Content + Media Manager

Incubator Manager

Research Project Manager

Maureen McCrone

Engagement Manager

Research + Communications Associate

Graphic Designer

Senior Financial Administrator

Graphic Designer

Annie Showalter

Leadership Team Administrator

Membership Manager

Contributors

Fellow of Philanthropic Partnerships

Filene Research Institute

Fellows

Associate Professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dean, School of Social Sciences; Professor, Department of Anthropology and School of Law; Director, Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion

University of California, Irvine

Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Quinetta Roberson

Ph.D., John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Management and Psychology

Michigan State University

Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor and Chair of City and Regional Planning

University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design

Cheri Speier-Pero

Associate Dean, Broad College of Business, E&Y Professor of Accounting and Information Systems

Michigan State University

Administrative Board

Tracie Kenyon - Chair

Montana's Credit Unions

Keith Sultemeier - Vice Chair

Kinecta Federal Credit Union

Ty Muse - Secretary

Visions Federal Credit Union

April Clobes - Treasurer

Michigan State University FCU

Patty Campbell - Director

Christian Financial Credit Union

Bill Cheney - Director

SchoolsFirst FCU

Rob Purtell - Director

Senior Vice President, Credit Union Sales

CUNA Mutual Group

Mike Schenk - Director

Deputy Chief Advocacy Officer for Policy Analysis & Chief Economist

Maurice Smith - Director

Local Government Federal Credit Union