About the St. Louis Fed’s Economic Education Program

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Resources by educators, for educators.

The Economic Education team at the St. Louis Fed uses its vast experience in the classroom and the latest research in education to provide educators of all grades with high-quality economics and personal finance teaching resources, an online learning platform, trainings, and other professional development opportunities!

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Economic Education Team

Scott Wolla | Jeannette Bennett | Andrea Caceres-Santamaria | Megan Cruz | Amanda Geiger | Mike Kaiman | Andria Matzenbacher | Kelly Oliva | Cameron Tucker

Scott Wolla

Scott Wolla

Economic Education Officer
Scott.A.Wolla@stls.frb.org
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Wolla is an award-winning economic educator with 14 years of classroom teaching experience. He has published articles in journals such as Journal of Economic Education, The American Economist, and Journal of Economics Teaching. His work has been cited by major media outlets including The New York Times, National Public Radio, and The Economist. Scott teaches economics as an adjunct at Washington University in St. Louis.

Education: Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, Saint Louis University; M.A., Economic Education, University of Delaware; M.S., Teacher Education, Bemidji State University; B.S., Social Studies Education, Minnesota State University-Moorhead

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Jeannette Bennett

Jeannette Bennett

Senior Economic Education Specialist
(Memphis Branch)
901-734-8011 | Jeannette.N.Bennett@stls.frb.org
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Bennett writes, designs, develops, and presents economic and personal finance curricula and resources for a variety of audiences. 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.

Education: M.S.E., Education Administration; M.S.E., Instructional Leadership/Curriculum and Instruction; and B.S.E., Education and Economic Education, Arkansas State University

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Andrea Caceres-Santamaria

Andrea Caceres-Santamaria

Senior Economic Education Specialist
Andrea.Caceres-Santamaria@stls.frb.org
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Caceres-Santamaria contributes to the ever-growing award-winning collection of effective resources for teachers. Prior to joining the Fed, she worked as a high school economics teacher in Palm Beach County, Fla. She also worked as a master teacher at the Florida Atlantic University Center for Economic Education. She has over 10 years of experience developing economics and personal finance curriculum for grades K-12.

Education: M.A., Economics and Entrepreneurship Education, University of Delaware; B.A., Secondary Social Science Education, Florida Atlantic University

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Megan Cruz

Megan Cruz

Research Officer
Megan.Cruz@stls.frb.org

Cruz leads our Native Economic and Financial Education Empowerment (NEFEE) program. In her role, she focuses on working with tribal nations and Native communities across the United States on implementing economic and personal finance education programs to support economic and financial well-being. NEFEE conducts research, in partnership with Native communities, to address barriers to financial capability and inclusion. She originally joined the Fed with the San Francisco Reserve Bank and has assumed a variety of roles including in credit risk management, currency operations and security. Cruz began her career at Merrill Lynch in investment banking, where she assisted tribal nations and their enterprises in raising more than $1 billion in financing for their gaming and reservation infrastructure projects. She is a member of the Osage Nation.

Education: B.S., Economics, Oklahoma State University

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Amanda Geiger

Amanda Geiger

Senior Economic Education Specialist
Amanda.Geiger@stls.frb.org
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Before joining the St. Louis Fed, Geiger was a Florida public high school teacher for over 12 years. She has also served as a reader and table leader for the College Board AP Macroeconomics exam. She was recognized with a Regional Economic Educator and Leadership Award by the Florida Council on Economic Education and by her school site as a teacher of the year.

Education: M.A., Economics and Entrepreneurship Education, University of Delaware; B.A., Social Science Education, Florida State University

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Mike Kaiman

Mike Kaiman

Senior Economic Education Specialist
Mike.Kaiman@stls.frb.org
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Kaiman develops and promotes educational materials that focus on increasing students’ economic and financial knowledge, with a special interest in data literacy and primary document analysis. Prior to joining the St. Louis Fed in 2023, he was a social studies educator for 20 years, having taught AP economics, U.S. history and popular culture in the 20th century.

Education: M.A., History, University of Missouri-St. Louis; B.A., History, University of Missouri-Columbia

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Andria Matzenbacher

Andria Matzenbacher

Economic Education Coordinator
Andria.L.Matzenbacher@stls.frb.org
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Matzenbacher works with our team of economic education specialists to provide Econ Lowdown, an online teacher portal housing over 600 resources for economics and personal finance classrooms. She ensures that online resources are engaging, interactive, and instructionally sound. Her goal 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 St. Louis Fed, she taught middle school science for 10 years.

Education: M.S., Education, Instructional Design and Learning Technologies and B.S., Elementary Education, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

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Kella Oliva

Kelly Oliva

Instructional Designer
Kelly.Oliva@stls.frb.org

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Oliva is an Instructional Designer on the Economic Education team at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In her role, she collaborates with economic education specialists to create varied learning experiences that help students make sense of personal finance and the economy. Oliva started her career as a high school English teacher and spent fifteen years serving as a school library media specialist. Before joining the Fed, she worked as a Learning and Development Specialist for Dierbergs Markets.

Education: M.A. Certificate Professional and Technical Writing, Murray State University; M.A. Library and Information Science, University of Missouri-Columbia; B.A. English, Lindenwood University

Cameron Tucker

Cameron Tucker

Economic Education Analyst
Cameron.Tucker@stls.frb.org
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Before joining the St. Louis Fed full-time, Tucker worked as our economic education intern throughout college and graduate school and as a tutor in economics and business classes for student athletes at Saint Louis University.

Education: B.S., Economics and M.S. Applied Financial Economics, Saint Louis University

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