Dr. Dan MacDonald, Andrew Waldum, Dr. Stefan Vogel
Panelists: Dr. Dan MacDonald, Andrew Waldum, Dr. Stefan Vogel
Moderator: Maryah Converse, 4th-year SLAT Candidate
Panelist Bios
Dr. Dan McDonald is the Director of the Take Charge America Institute for Consumer Financial Education and Research, is an Extension Specialist in Financial Education, and a Distinguished Outreach Professor. Dr. McDonald has worked at the University of Arizona for 24 years, designing, implementing, and evaluating community programs. He oversees personal finance outreach programming offered through Cooperative Extension throughout the State of Arizona, including five Tribal Nations, and he is the project director for the Children, Youth, and Families at Risk sustainable communities project.
Andrew Waldum, M.B.A, CFP is an Associate Professor of Practice in Personal and Family Financial Planning at the University of Arizona’s Norton School of Human Ecology. He has worked in a number of different settings and roles, but for several years now he has been teaching university courses with an emphasis in Personal and Family Financial Planning at Central Washington University and at the University of Arizona. He is passionate about financial planning education and truly believes that crafting and following a solid financial plan can truly change people’s lives for the better. Professor Waldum has a M.B.A. with concentrations in Finance and International Management from the University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, and a Graduate Certificate in Personal Financial Planning from Kansas State University.
Dr. Stefan Vogel is a lecturer at the University of Albany, SUNY, where he teaches in the Writing and Critical Inquiry Program. He graduated from the SLAT PhD program in August 2021. As a former international student in SLAT, he has a unique perspective on how financial literacy can affect graduate students and prepare them for life in graduate school and beyond. Dr. Vogel’s primary academic interests and areas of specialization are second language writing, second language teacher education, as well as leadership and program administration.
