Mission
The mission of the Center for Financial Wellness is to equip students to make secure and informed financial decisions that impact their present and future goals. The Center for Financial Wellness provides our campus with resources that educate and help students in the areas of financial literacy and money management skills to encourage productive lifelong habits and practices.
What Is Financial Wellness?
Having financial security and financial freedom of choice, in the present and in the future.
– Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Staff
Philippa Satterwhite
Coordinator of Financial Wellness and Education
CliftonStrengths®: Context, Input, Learner, Ideation, and Intellection
My definition of free fun includes getting together to play board games with friends and family.
I’m excited to support your understanding of who you are and how your finances can support your goals, values, and passions.
Kylee Hunter
Financial Wellness Coach
CliftonStrengths®: Empathy, Developer, Strategic, Relator, and Adaptability
My definition of free fun includes paddle boarding/swimming, doing my nails, and spending time with friends and family.
I’m excited to support your understanding of budgeting so you can feel secure and confident in your spending habits.
Financial Wellness Peer Guides
Peer guides are students who help you manage your personal finances while you are at UT and beyond. They receive extensive training so they are prepared to give you the best information possible.
A’lana Boyce
Financial Wellness Peer Guide
CliftonStrengths®: Individualization, Strategic, Activator, Command, and Communication
My definition of free fun includes taking naps, watching anime and reality TV, and playing puzzle games.
I’m excited to support your understanding of financial literacy and how to establish healthy spending habits so your future-self will never have to live paycheck-to-paycheck.
Dorcas Kwaw-Mensah
Financial Wellness Peer Guide
CliftonStrengths®: Achiever, Adaptability, Competition, Deliberative, and Focus
My definition of free fun includes hanging out with my friends and watching movies.
I’m excited to support your understanding of how to manage your finances through our different resources such as our spending plan. Learning how to manage your finances will allow you to be able to balance them as well. This is important now and after college, so I would appreciate being able to help anyone learn how to manage them.
John Long
Financial Wellness Peer Guide
CliftonStrengths®: Developer, Communication, Consistency, Empathy, and Strategic
My definition of free fun includes playing the guitar, going on hikes, and playing board games with friends.
I’m excited to support your understanding of personal finances and find ways to ease the stress of financial worries.
Trinity McClain
Financial Wellness Peer Guide
CliftonStrengths®: Harmony, Consistency, Deliberative, Intellection, and Analytical
My definition of free fun includes an at home movie night.
I’m excited to support your understanding of budgeting. I’m looking forward to
making it feel less like a restriction and more like a tool that can help you take control of your financial life. Budgeting can be challenging, but when done well, it can feel quite satisfying, and I can’t wait to support you on your financial journey.
Yvangeline Mills
Financial Wellness Peer Guide
CliftonStrengths®: Relator, Harmony, Empathy, Belief, and Consistency
My definition of free fun includes watching movies, listening to music, and hanging out with my friends.
I’m excited to help you learn how to have better saving skills and plan what to do with your money so you can make better financial decisions.