The Equity Experience

EP 39: The Importance of Teaching Financial Literacy & Entrepreneurship to Black and Latino Youth w/Dr. Isaac Addae

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Why should educators and school administrators have conversations about financial literacy and entrepreneurship with Black and Latino youth?

Welcome to The Equity Experience Podcast! In episode #39, we discuss with Dr. Isaac Addae the importance of having financial literacy and entrepreneurship conversations with the youth. Dr. Addae is a business educator and a corporate social engineer who aspires to make people’s lives better. We had an exciting conversation about the importance of integrating financial literacy in our curriculums to guide the youth and prepare them for life after college.

Highlights from this podcast include:

  • A mindset of “spend, save, and give” can help students at a very young age of the importance of managing money.
  • The difference between being a “creator” and being a “consumer” in the Black and Brown communities.
  • The conversations of money have been made “taboo” but it is one of the most important conversations that parents should be having with their children.
  • Financial literacy is not mandatory in the public education system which is why it is an issue in the Black and Brown communities.
  • How to manage your money? Why is it important to start your own business? What is life beyond college? What is corporate life like?
  • The importance of introducing financial literacy and wealth management in your curriculum.
  • Challenges and struggles that youth face in gaining knowledge of financial literacy and entrepreneurship.
  • The lack of mentors for the youth and the importance of mentorship.

    • Website: http://isaacaddae.com

    Bio: Dr. Isaac Y. Addae is an award-winning professor, speaker, and strategist. He is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Tennessee State University College of Business. He also serves as the Chief Strategy Officer of Pivot Technology School, where he fosters relationships to further the organization's mission of training minorities for technology careers, and as Managing Partner at HBCU Impact Capital, a hybrid venture studio and micro private equity firm. Isaac received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from Tennessee State University, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Morgan State University Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management. In Summer 2021, Isaac will release his first book, Black Boy Fly: Embracing My Ancestry, Blackness, and Purpose in the African Diaspora.


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