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Sally Wood (MBA 1983) is COO of the Council for Economic Education (CEE), a nonprofit dedicated to teaching economics and personal finance to students from kindergarten through high school. Based in New York City, CEE trains more than 55,000 teachers nationwide to bring the organization’s economics and personal finance curriculum to 5 million students.
“It’s not just that (they) should save money. It’s about learning to make informed decisions, such as ‘should I go to college?’ And what are the tradeoffs for those decisions?” says Wood, who joined CEO Nan Morrison (MBA 1987) in 2012. “I was very excited for her vision,” Wood says of Morrison. “I thought, given my background, I could come in and make a difference.”
Wood, who previously ran traditional and online businesses for Bertelsmann and Pearson Education before cofounding Kapitall, an online platform for new and casual investors in 2008, oversees finance, IT, sales operations, and marketing at CEE. “I love to come in and find ways to start and grow businesses, and create opportunities,” she says.
(Published April 2014)
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