Advisory Board Member Alison McQueen
New York Financial Educators Council
Alison McQueen is a nationally recognized leading real estate agent and REALTOR® located in New York City. She is a Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker at The Corcoran Group. McQueen was selected as a distinguished member of the New York Financial Educators Council Advisory Board due to her proven passion for consumer advocacy and education. This passion is demonstrated in the themes of leadership, effective communication, fostering healthy learning environments, and creating consumer empowerment that stand out across her career. For example, Alison teaches monthly seminars to first-time home buyers, and authors articles that aim to demystify purchase transactions and complex market trends.
Advisory Board Member Alison McQueen was originally educated as a psychologist, earning her MA in Psychology, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counseling, from The New School for Social Research in New York City in 2010. Her experience as a psychologist has shown that people can make substantial changes for themselves when they receive clear, accessible information and effective support. Alison is also a classically trained musician who has taught clarinet, flute, and saxophone to many students of all skill levels. McQueen has built and developed three successful businesses from scratch by focusing on her strong values of communication, education, and advocacy.
The New York Financial Educators Council looks forward to a productive long-term partnership with Alison McQueen to help build greater financial wellness and economic empowerment among New Yorkers.
Fostering Community Financial Wellness: Alison McQueen
Alison McQueen draws upon her experience as a psychologist and educator to help clients successfully navigate the real estate market with minimal stress. Although her professional career has spanned several disciplines – including counseling, education, editing, and real estate – one major theme has run throughout: distillation of empirical data and information for people’s everyday use. To facilitate financial wellness, she strongly believes consumers should be armed with accurate, practical facts and guidance.
McQueen established her successful sales business in 2014 and continues to be recognized for exceptional transactional volume and closed dollar amounts. She is responsible for strategizing her business’s growth, reputation, and profit. Among her many awards, Alison was recognized as one of WSJ/RealTrends America’s Best Real Estate Professionals in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024; NRT’s Top .05% of 47,000 Sales Associates Nationwide in 2022; is a long-standing member of Corcoran’s Multimillion Dollar Club; and earned Corcoran’s Dealmakers Award for Transactional Volume in 2023 and 2024.
In her advocacy for financial wellness, McQueen remains deeply committed to transparency, honesty, and research. Almost immediately upon becoming a real estate agent in 2014, she began hosting workshops for consumers, with the goal of providing access to a real estate expert minus a sales pitch. She has been teaching these monthly seminars for first-time home buyers for more than a decade.
Alison McQueen’s firm belief is that when people understand their options, and the pros and cons of financial decisions – before they find themselves in a pressured emotional state – they are emboldened and empowered to make better financial choices for themselves.
Alison is delighted to serve on the New York Financial Educators Council’s Advisory Board. As a native New Yorker, she feels honored to help foster financial wellness in communities throughout New York State.
New York Financial Educators Council Details
Selected members of the New York Financial Educators Council Advisory Board are individuals who support us in our commitment to widely spread financial wellness resources across the state of New York. They share our goal to donate financial wellness programming at the community level in initiatives that can be sustained and taken to scale.
Board Members who pass the rigorous selection criteria are professionals with a demonstrated commitment to building financial wellness in their communities. Individuals with the following traits are considered:
Passion
A deep belief in the importance of promoting financial wellness and a desire to strengthen individuals, loved ones, and communities with financial education.
Participation
Individuals and organizations that can allocate time toward financial wellness initiatives and actively participate in Board communications.
Ethics
Individuals with a track record of providing service to their local communities with honesty and upholding the values of esteemed professionalism.
