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2021 Bank On Washington Forum Speakers




                                 Morgan Housel, The Collaborative Fund



                                 Morgan is a partner at The Collaborative Fund and a former
                                 columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal.  He is a
                                 two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of
                                 American Business Editors and Writers, winner of the New York
                                 Times Sidney Award, and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb
                                 Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.

                                 His book The Psychology of Money is now available.  Morgan has
                                 presented at more than 100 conferences in a dozen countries.  He
                                 speaks about behavioral finance and history, using storytelling to
                                 explore how investors deal with risk and how we can think about
                                 risk in a more productive way.



                                 Darren Liddell, Propel

                                 Darren Liddell has been working in the financial empowerment field
                                 for over 10 years and currently serves on the government and
                                 nonprofit partnerships team at Propel. In this role, he focuses on
                                 partnering with organizations to positively impact families receiving
                                 SNAP.

                                 Darren is passionate about empowering community members to
                                 achieve their financial goals and previously, Darren served at The
                                 Financial Clinic as Director of Program Innovation where he
                                 oversaw the financial coaching, tax preparation, data and policy
                                 teams, while providing innovative direction to the organizations
                                 local and national programs. Darren currently serves as a member
                                 on Prosperity Now’s Taxpayer Opportunity Network Steering
                                 Committee and AFCPE’s Government Affairs Task Force and is an
                                 Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC®) through AFCPE.
                                 Previously, he managed Miami-Dade County's VITA Tax
                                 Collaborative of 40 tax sites, coordinated the Miami portion of the
                                 first RCT study of financial coaching, and has years of experience
                                 as a financial coach and a VITA program manager.

                                 Outside of work, he is an Eagle Scout, and he enjoys learning new
                                 culture through food. Darren is a proud tax nerd and a racial wealth
                                 equity advocate. He is always aiming to learn more about
                                 opportunities to address the racial wealth divide through policy,
                                 financial coaching, fintech, and at tax-time.
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