Arlene Garcia
Educator. Author. Speaker. Consultant.
Danbury, Connecticut, United States
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Dr. Arlene Garcia, PhD, is an educator, author, speaker and consultant. She has worked as an educator since 2001, more than 25 years, and speaks to colleges, schools, conferences, community groups and employers.
An Afro-Latina, first-generation college graduate and daughter of an immigrant, Dr. Garcia knows the gap she speaks about from the inside. In many working-class families, we learn to earn, pay bills and save what we can. We are not always taught the rules of investing, compound growth, fees and retirement accounts. She experienced that gap herself.
Then she saw her financial literacy students choose savings over investing because they feared losing money. She created Money Moves so they would have a safe place to learn, ask questions and build confidence. Money Moves lets students experience 40 simulated years of financial decisions, with changing markets and life happening along the way, without risking real money.
Her message: "Breaking the cycle means passing down financial knowledge alongside the work ethic."
Dr. Garcia is the author of Abundance Unleashed: The Money Moves Edition and Oh What Will You Do? Her keynote, "Earning Isn't Wealth: Breaking the Cycle," can be tailored for college and first-gen audiences, K-12 educators and conferences, and community groups and employers.
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Earning Isn't Wealth: Breaking the Cycle
Dr. Garcia shares why working hard and saving are not the same as building wealth, and what she wishes she had been taught at 18. Students get plain-language investing basics and ways to pass financial knowledge forward.
Takeaways:
- Working hard and saving are not the same as building wealth.
- Investing basics in plain language: compound growth, fees and retirement accounts.
- As the first in the family to ask these questions, you can start passing financial knowledge forward.
Teaching Money Without Fear
Why students choose savings over investing, and how a 40-year simulation lets them practice with changing markets and life events without risking real money.
Takeaways:
- Why students choose savings over investing, and how fear of loss drives that choice.
- How a 40-year simulation lets students practice with changing markets and life events.
- Ways to bring financial literacy into your classroom or school.
Passing Down More Than a Work Ethic
A personal, practical talk for families, parents and employees about the money lessons that often go missing at home and work.
Takeaways:
- What working families teach well (earning, bills, saving) and what is often missing.
- The three money ideas that change the outcome: compound growth, fees and retirement accounts.
- Simple ways to start the conversation with your family and your team.
Arlene Garcia
Educator. Author. Speaker. Consultant.
Danbury, Connecticut, United States
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