Nida Guzon-Palmore, MBA – Financial Educator, Accountant & Financial Advocate

Personal Notes

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I have been in the business world since childhood having been nurtured and reared by a very entrepreneurial mother who then led me to pursue a career in business administration and financial services.

Three things drove me to this advocacy –

1. My three children, then two in middle school and one in high school had no clue about bank accounts and check books;
2. Our schools are not preparing our children for an increasingly complex and challenging global economy that is credit-driven; and
3. Americans as a whole still know nothing or little about their finances.

 

Bio

Nida Guzon-Palmore is the Principal and Founder of Money Empowerment Academy (www.moneyempowermentacademy.com), California Central Valley’s first and only provider of financial literacy summer camps, after-school programs, workshops, and seminars for our youth that are aligned with the California State Curriculum Standards.

Nida passed her securities licenses, both in Series 6 and 63 and Life and Health insurance licenses in California. She has been in the banking and financial services industry for more than 25 years and more than 18 years of accounting and professional business experience for small business and nonprofit organizations as an accountant and consultant.

Nida is a member of the NFEC’s Personal Finance Speakers Association and a professional blogger that appears on her website Money Empowerment Academy.

Nida has always given back to the community, one that she enjoys so much. Some of her past civic and professional involvements are: Founding Member and Treasurer of Fresno West Coalition for Economic Development (FWCED), Founding Member of Coalition for Academic Excellence (oversaw Fresno Unified School District’s implementation of two pathways for science and math at the high school level under the Urban Systemic Initiative), Member of the FUSD Urban Systemic Initiative Steering Committee which oversaw the curriculum development in science and math, Member of the City of Fresno Planning Department-Bullard Implementation Plan Committee, Member of Measure K Oversight Committee which oversaw the $250-million-bond-money for Fresno Unified School District, Member of the Fresno Unified School District Liaison Council that oversaw the hiring of the district’s Superintendent and Chief Financial Officer, and as Chair/Member, Business Outreach of the Business Education Task Force of the Greater Fresno Area Chamber of Commerce.

She also held various positions and memberships in the Manchester G.A.T.E. School, Computech Middle School, and Edison High School-School Site Councils. She was elected for two terms as President of the Manchester G.A.T.E. School P.T.A. She was also a long-time member in good standing of the California State P.T.A.

Nida also developed an Independent Study Program (ISP) entitled Credit and Debt Management that has become part of the curriculum of one of California’s technical schools.

Nida’s past employment experience includes the Central Bank of the Philippines in the Securities Marketing Department, as an Accounts Analyst where she analyzed interbank demand rates, the Manila and Makati Stock Exchanges, and assisted in the preparation and monitored the disbursement of the departmental budget of 70 employees. She was an Accounting Consultant for American Diabetes Association of Hawaii, a Business Manager for Flint Broadcasting, Ltd., and Regional Vice President for Primerica Financial Services.

Nida is currently a Member of the Board of Directors for Promesa Behavioral Health, Central Valley’s leading provider of effective multi-cultural, multi-lingual continuum of services and intervention for our youth for over 22 years.

Nida believes that financial skills empower a person to gain power over money to be able to make smart financial decisions to start building true wealth, be it for a college fund for the kids, saving money for a down payment on a house, or preparing for retirement while avoiding or minimizing the pitfalls of poor financial choices.