Syreeta Martin

For kids back in the day, finances and money management were stuff your parents worried about. Today, those skills are taught to many students as early as middle school. But Ashley M. Fox, a former Wall Street analyst with nine years in the financial industry, is working to take financial education for children to the next step.

I don’t know if you knew, but it goes down in fifth grade, from the DMs to school hallways. While I have memories of my now 27-year-old self being 10-11 years old, I have learned that the 10-11-year-old kids of today are not the sort that I or any generation preceding mine were. I can say this with a considerable amount of confidence and insight given that I am raising a 10-year-old daughter who is in fifth grade.

In the final installment of this two-part series, PhillyVoice explores the journey of two women in leadership positions at Wells Fargo and Independence Blue Cross, and at their churches as women in the pulpit. Discover the first part of their journey here. For women who aspire to lead congregations, the stained glass ceiling has historically served as the very floor on which men stand firmly planted behind the pulpit.