MEMPHIS - Key Persons
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- Digital Library Manager
- FRASER Digital Library Manager
- Manager of FRASER
Aaron Collie is the manager of FRASER, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history. He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and has over 10 years of experience working on free and open source software (FOSS) development projects. He is an active participant in the Digital Library Federation (DLF), Research Data Alliance (RDA), Citizen Science Association (CSA) and Code4lib communities and currently serves on the Leadership Group of the National Digital Stewardship Association (NDSA). Aaron teaches, writes, and consults on topics of data curation and agile workforce development in information-intensive professions.
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- Research Information Specialist
Adrienne connects researchers and data professionals to the economic and financial data they need to produce authoritative, scholarly publications for the Federal Reserve. Since joining the St. Louis Fed in 2008, she has supported FRED and other Research Division services as they have grown to serve millions of users. She navigates copyright and licensing issues, while identifying, acquiring, and answering questions about data resources.
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- Senior Economic Education Specialist
- Senior Economic Education Specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Andrea Caceres-Santamaria is a senior economic education specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis where she contributes to the ever growing award winning collection of effective resources for teachers. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis she was a high school teacher for the Palm Beach County School District for 10 years, and a master teacher for the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Center for Economic Education for 8 years. During her time as a teacher and working for the FAU Center for Economic Education she published lessons focusing on topics including behavioral economics and personal finance.
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- Learning Technology Designer at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- Senior Learning Technology Designer
Andria is a driving force behind our Econ Lowdown teacher portal, with an M.S. in instructional design and learning technologies and 10 years' teaching experience.
Andria Matzenbacher is a learning technology designer at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where she works with a team of economic education specialists and developers to provide Econ Lowdown, an online teacher portal housing over 400 resources for economics and personal finance classrooms. In her role, she ensures the content in the online resources is engaging, interactive, and instructionally sound. Her goal as a learning technology designer is to help teachers do their job more efficiently and provide them with tools they can use to help students learn financial literacy and economics. Prior to joining the Bank, she taught middle school science for 10 years.
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- Senior Digital Projects Librarian
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- Psychology / Cornell College
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- Member of the Memphis Branch Board of Directors
- Owner, FarmHouse Tupelo / Tupelo, Miss.
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- President and Chairman, First Breckinridge Bancshares Inc
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- President and CEO, Renasant Bank / Tupelo, Miss.
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- Congressional Research and Studies Center
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- Division 's Research Economists
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- the External Engagement and Corporate Communications Team Coordinates Speech Requests Via the Speakers Bureau
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- Deputy Chair / President and CEO, Chism Hardy Investments LLC / Bartlett, Tenn.
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- President and CEO, First Financial Bank
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- President and CEO, First Horizon Corp
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- Vice President and Community Affairs Officer
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- CEO, Southern Bancorp Inc
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- Executive Director, AMPED Louisville / Louisville, Ky.
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- Director of Engineering, Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC / Bowling Green, Ky.
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- Member of the Memphis Branch Board of Directors
- Regional President, Centennial Bank / Jonesboro, Ark.
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- Senior Economic Education Specialist
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- Chairman / Senior Vice President of Business Development, KentuckyCare / Paducah, Ky.
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- Senior Economic Education Specialist
Eva has an M.A. in education and 28-year career teaching high school history and economics.
Eva Johnston is an experienced educator who specializes in the intersection of economics and history. As part of the Economic Education team, she creates classroom lessons, toolkits, and activities that incorporate the wealth of primary and secondary source documents found in the St. Louis Fed's FRASER® digital library. Before joining the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, she taught high school history and economics in the St. Louis area for 28 years.
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- Senior Analyst, Research Information Services
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- Manager of the Research Division
- Managing Editor, Research Publications
George Fortier is the manager of the Research Division publications group, a staff of two editors and one designer. Division publications include Review, Economic Synopses, Agricultural Finance Monitor, Page One Economics, FRED® Blog, the monthly Research Division newsletter, the briefing book, the board report, and a multitude of Economic Education material. He assesses and improves products, services, and content presented to internal and external audiences.
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- Member of the Memphis Branch Board of Directors
- President and CEO, Staple Cotton Cooperative Association ( Staplcotn ) Greenwood, Miss.
Homer Jones is also known for the guiding principle that everyone should be able to access data the same way a professional researcher can. He instituted popular weekly and monthly data publications that were mailed to subscribers. A 1967 Business Week article about the St. Louis Fed described the process as follows:
Jones and his people take the basic material pumped out of Washington, then rework and polish it, and put it into highly readable form. As one Fed aide in Washington observes "Homer has the most merchantable stuff coming out of the system today."
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- from President
- Our President
- President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
James "Jim" Bullard is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He also participates on the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, which meets eight times each year to set the direction of U.S. monetary policy.
Our President, Jim Bullard, participates on the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's monetary policy-making body. Advised by our economists, he contributes informed opinions about national and Eighth Federal Reserve District conditions and influences policy decisions.
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- Chairman / Founder and CEO, Invisibly Inc
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- Vice President, Finance, Emerging Payments at Walmart Inc
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- Economic Education
- Senior Economic Education Specialist With the Memphis Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- Senior Economic Education Specialist, Memphis Branch
Jeannette creates award-winning curricula and has an M.S.E. in educational administration. She brings valuable experience as a former teacher, administrator and adjunct professor.
Jeannette Bennett is a Senior Economic Education Specialist with the Memphis Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where she writes, designs, develops, and presents economic and personal finance curricula and resources for a variety of audiences. In that role, she has authored and co-authored numerous education resources, including the award-winning Great Depression Curriculum, the Mississippi Personal Finance Curriculum (developed in partnership with the Mississippi Council on Economic Education), and the high school course A "Standard" Personal Finance Curriculum. Prior to joining the Fed, she had an extensive career in public education as a teacher, school administrator, adjunct professor, and curriculum consultant and designer. Her excellence in economic education has been recognized with national awards for her own teaching and published curricula, and with national awards for teachers under her guidance as an administrator.
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- Member of the Memphis Branch Board of Directors
- Chairman and CEO, First Citizens National Bank / Dyersburg, Tenn.
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- President and CEO, Eagle Bank & Trust Co
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- Administrative Assistant to the Regional Executive
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- Senior Digital Projects Librarian
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- Chairman of the Memphis Branch Board of Directors
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- Vice President and Director of Library and Research Information Services
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- Senior Economic Education Specialist
- Senior Economic Education Specialist With the Little Rock Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- Senior Economic Education Specialist, Little Rock Branch
Kris Bertelsen is a senior economic education specialist with the Little Rock Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where he helps produce economic and personal finance education materials including videos, lesson plans, and online modules. He speaks frequently to a variety of audiences and conducts professional development for educators. Prior to joining the Fed, Kris taught high school social studies in Minnesota. He's served on various boards and committees including the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) economics assessment writing committee, author and content reviewer for the Council for Economic Education (CEE), and the Arkansas Department of Education Social Studies Standards Revision Committees. He has served as president of the Arkansas Jump$tart Coalition.
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- President and CEO, Emerson Electric Co
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- for Media Inquiries Contact
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- Administrative Assistant to Regional Executive
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- Data Engineer
- FRED Data Engineer
Maria A Arias works on the FRED team developing and maintaining the data update process. She also helps lead FRED workshops for new and existing audiences to market new features and help users make the most of FRED. Prior to joining the FRED team, Maria was a Senior Research Associate in the Research Division, where she worked alongside economists to analyze datasets on topics from regional employment to national growth. She has published research on metro area economic activity, as well as poverty and middle-income traps.
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- Assistant Vice President and Economic Education Officer
- Economic Education Officer
- Economic Education Programs and Workshops
Mary has a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction and M.A. in economic education. She has been active in economic education for 30+ years and is past president of the National Association of Economic Educators.
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- Senior Economic Education Specialist
- Senior Economic Education Specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Megan manages personal finance and economic education programs for tribal nations and Native communities. Her focus includes Federal Reserve supplier and career opportunities.
Megan Cruz is a senior economic education specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis where she is focused on Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) initiatives pertaining to Native Americans. This includes managing personal finance and economic education programs for tribal nations and Native communities, increasing participation of Native-owned businesses in procurement opportunities, and building a Native talent pipeline for employment and internships across the Federal Reserve System. Prior to joining the Research Division, she assumed a variety of roles within the System, beginning in the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco as part of the Bank's rotational management program. She began her career in investment banking at Merrill Lynch, where she assisted tribes and their enterprises in raising financing for their economic development and reservation infrastructure projects. Megan is a citizen of the Osage Nation.
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- Member of the Memphis Branch Board of Directors
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- President and CEO, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare / Memphis, Tenn.
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- Chairman / President, Stone Ward / Little Rock, Ark.
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- President and CEO, Bank of Hillsboro / Hillsboro, Ill.
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- Digital Preservation Specialist and Bank Archivist
Pamela manages the St. Louis Fed's internal archives, preserving both analog and digital documents and artifacts of historical importance reflecting the policy deliberations and communications of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and its Branches. She also administers FedPreserve, the internal digital preservation system used by Reserve Banks to preserve historically significant materials. Previously, Pamela served as a member of the FRASER team for 10 years.
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- Director, the New Washington State Bank
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- Managing Partner, Edward Jones / St. Louis
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- President and CEO, Murphy USA Inc
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- President and CEO, Louisville Urban League / Louisville, Ky.
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- Scholarly Communication and Discovery Services Librarian
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- Economic Education Coordinator
Scott has a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction and M.A. in economic education. He's the face of our popular Economic Lowdown series. This former economics teacher was recently recognized by the National Association of Economic Educators.
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- for Media Inquiries Contact
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- CEO, Evansville Regional Economic Partnership
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- Tennessee Extension Service Board Member
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- Member of the Memphis Branch Board of Directors
- President, Southwest Tennessee Community College / Memphis, Tenn.
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- Member of the Memphis Branch Board of Directors
- President and CEO, First Choice Sales and Marketing Group Inc. Memphis, Tenn.
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- Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, America 's Car - Mart Inc
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- Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Native American Agriculture Fund / Fayetteville, Ark.