Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Veena Brown, Associate Professor of Accounting and program director at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. 

We discuss the need to address unconscious bias in the audit and accounting industries, as well as support and encourage students as they navigate their way towards these careers. Brown, a first-generation immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago and the first of her family to receive a bachelor’s degree, emphasizes that the biggest barrier to entry for those wishing to join the industry is lack of support and training. She posits that revamping the curriculum to include a contribution, additive, transformative, and social action approach to inclusion will allow students to see the industry as more accessible and relevant.

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