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CONFERENCE 2019 JEN CHRISTIANSEN is senior graphics editor at Scientific Jean is a trustee of Rowan University and a director of John American (SA), where she art directs and produces illustrat- Marshall Bank and Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Interdisciplinary Cultures in Art, ed information graphics and data visualizations. She com- Program. In 2018, Jean was named by South Jersey Biz 8:00 AM Design, Science & Entrepreneurship pleted undergraduate studies in geology and art at Smith as one of the “Women to Watch.” Registration, Breakfast & Coffee College, then happily merged the two disciplines in the scientific illustration graduate program at UC Santa Cruz. JANE GOLDEN has been the driving force of Mural Arts Sponsored by 8:45 AM She began her publishing career in New York at SA in 1996, since 1984, overseeing its growth from a small THE COLLEGE OF Welcome Remarks moved to Washington DC to join the art department of city agency into the nation’s largest public art program. COMMUNICATION AND CREATIVE ARTS Conference Planning Committee National Geographic, spent four years as a freelance science Under Golden’s direction, Mural Arts has created over Sanford Tweedie, Dean, College of Communication and Creative Arts communicator, then returned to SA in 2007. She’s a regular 4,000 works of public art through innovative collabora- contributor to SA Visual—the Scientific American art blog— tions. In partnership with a range of city agencies, she has 9:00 AM writing on topics ranging from reconciling her love for art developed groundbreaking and rigorous programs that Dr. Ali Houshmand, President, Rowan University and science, to her quest to learn more about the pulsar work through art to make strides in youth education, restor- Jane Golden, Executive Director, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program chart on Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover. ative justice, and behavioral health. Sought after nationally and internationally as an expert on urban transformation 10:30 AM Coffee & Snack Break RIC EDELMAN ‘80, Founder of Edelman Financial through art, Golden has received numerous awards for Engines, the nation’s largest independent RIA, with her work, including the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship 11:00 AM $200 billion in client assets, is one of the nation’s leading Award and Philadelphia Magazine’s Trailblazer Award. She Ellen Lupton, Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, financial advisors, and three times was ranked the nation’s is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Smithsonian Design Museum in ; Director of Graphic #1 Independent Financial Advisor by Barron’s. Ric hosts a and serves on the Mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council, the Design MFA program, at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) nationally syndicated radio show, PBS television specials Penn Museum Advisory Committee, and the board of and is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of 10 books directors of The Heliotrope Foundation. 11:45 AM on personal finance. Recipient of IARFC’s lifetime achieve- Book Signing with Ellen Lupton ment award, Ric has been named by Investment News, ALVIN HALL is an award-winning television and radio RIABiz and others as one of the most influential people broadcaster, best-selling author, and renowned financial 12:00 AM – 1:20 PM in the financial services industry. Ric is the 2017 recipient educator. His work in radio includes The Green Book (BBC Lunch Break of the IARFC’s Lifetime Achievement Award and he’s in Radio 4), Alvin Hall Goes Back to School (The Takeaway, PRI Research magazine’s Financial Advisor Hall of Fame. with WNYC, winner of a New York Association of Black 1:30 PM Journalists), and Who Sold the Soul? (BBC Radio 4, winner Kenneth Lacovara Ph.D. ‘84, Founding Dean, School Earth/Environment JEAN EDELMAN ’81 co-founded Edelman Financial of a Radio Academy Bronze Award), Jay-Z: From Brooklyn to Ric ‘80 and Jean ‘81 Edelman, Edelman Financial Engines, LLC Engines. Known for her view that “personal finance is more the Boardroom (BBC Radio 4, winner of a Wincott Award for personal than finance,” Jean helps us see ourselves and Financial Journalism and Broadcasting). The former host 3:00 PM Coffee & Snack Break the world in a positive, loving way. Her insights are found of such BBC series as Your Money or Your Life and Alvin’s in her book, The Other Side of Money, monthly newsletter Guide to Good Business, he has authored a number of best 3:15 PM articles, YouTube videos and the new children’s book, The sellers, including You and Your Money: It’s More than Just Jen Christiansen, Senior Graphics Editor, Scientific American Squirrel Manifesto, co-written with Ric, which debuted at the Numbers, as well as the children’s book Show Me the Monica Serrano, Senior Graphic Editor, National Geographic Magazine #1 on Amazon’s bestseller list for children’s money books. Money which has been published in 20 foreign language

4:30 PM Alvin Hall, Financial Advisor, Author, Journalist, whose programs have been broadcast on the BBC and NPR

5:15 PM Book Signing with Alvin Hall and Kenneth Lacovara Ph.D. ‘84

5:30 – 7:00 PM PHOTO JANE GOLDEN BY STEVE WEINIK Post Conference Reception Jen Christiansen Ric Edelman Jean Edelman Jane Golden Alvin Hall

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