Vanessa Salas Collins is a high school teacher in California who is also an advocate for a required financial literacy class in school. She breaks down what she teaches to her students in her financial education class and tells us why it's such a challenge to make personal finance required in school. She also dives into her personal story as a first-generation Latina growing up with a lot of shame about her culture and her financial situation.

Here are the links we mentioned in the episode:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nuestrafortuna/

email: [email protected] (personal)

Email: [email protected] (work)

Vanessa uses NGPF's free personal finance curriculum: www.ngpf.org