Dara Duguay, America’s leading advocate for personal finance education, is the executive director of the National Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, an umbrella group of more than one hundred governmental agencies, national organizations and corporations devoted in part to personal finance education for young people. Previously, Duguay was the director of education for the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Los Angeles, which specializes in providing free budget and debt counseling. She has dispensed her expert financial advice on MSNBC, ABC, CNN, National Public Radio and Fox News, as well as magazines such as Money, Parenting, Working Mother, Parade and Investor’s Business Daily. She has been a featured speaker at many national conferences. Dara lives in Washington, D.C.