On the 3rd anniversary of the NGPF Distinguished Educator award, 42 teachers have newly earned the coveted title of NGPF Distinguished Educator! This award comes with a plaque, a badge, infinite bragging rights, and verifiable content mastery in personal finance topics. Celebrate these awesome educators with us!

To earn the NGPF Distinguished Educator award, teachers must complete a combination of six or more NGPF Teacher Certifications.

Each of their 6+ NGPF Certifications requires teachers to:

• participate in 9 hours of live or asynchronous instruction to build content mastery in a key personal finance topic (e.g. Banking & Budgeting, Career, Investing)
• pass the corresponding 1-hour exam at the end of the cohort
• The teachers below have all aced a total of 60+ hours of in-depth professional development in personal finance. They're the real deal.

Teachers, register for your next NGPF Certification Course to get one step closer to your award and join this distinguished group!

Meet the NEW Distinguished Educators

• Laura Andriola from St. Francis Preparatory School (NY)
• Victoria Aristy from Passaic High School No. 12 (NJ)
• Phillip Bandoch from Brighton High School (CO)
• Aaron Banta from Durango High School (NV)
• Jacqueline Beem from Mountain View High School (AZ)
• Mila Borukhova from Vienna International School (Austria)
• Raymond Bradshaw from Brooklyn Technical High School (NY)
• Steven Buford from Del Sol Academy of Performing Arts High School (NV)
• Elyse Carmack from Las Americas Aspira Academy (DE)
• Penny Christy from Bold Senior High School (MN)
• Daniel Dussault from Pilgrim High School (RI)
• Felicia Fago from Medina County ESC (OH)
• Cami Fissel from Camp Road Middle School (SC)
• Jason Flener from Rancho High School (NV)
• Ricardo Flores from Hanna Early College High School (TX)
• Michael Gibbons from Idaho Digital Learning (ID)
• Jason Hensley from California Lutheran University (CA)
• Karen Johnson from Hilton Head Island High School (SC)
• Kimberly Jones from Mastery - Gratz Campus (PA)
• Michael LaMastra from New York State Education Department (NY)
• Maggie Margrey from Jefferson-Lewis-Hamilton-Herkimer-Oneida BOCES (NY)
• Ann Marti from Lenora Smith Elementary School (FL)
• Heather Menzel from South Brunswick High School (NC)
• Julie Misseri from IS24: Myra Barnes Middle School (NY)
• Rosey Ok from FLY Initiative (RI)
• James Pickett from Belleville High School (WI)
• Michael Pincus from Scarsdale Middle School (NY)
• Chad Posner from Mira Loma High School (CA)
• Ronny Ramirez Bravo from Mardela Middle & High School (MD)
• April Riley from Charles W. Baker High School (NY)
• Lystra Seenath from Palm Beach State College (FL)
• Cecilia Suarez from Shadow Ridge High School (NV)
• Megan Sullivan from Central High School (ND)
• Phillip Tarricone from Haddon Township High School (NJ)
• Karen Terry from Colton High School (CA)
• Meghan Titus from Charles W. Baker High School (NY)
• Brittan Tramontana from Scarsdale Senior High School (NY)
• Amy Webb from Kettering Fairmont High School (OH)
• Kathy White from Dutchess BOCES (NY)
• Christina Wilkins from Early College at RCC (NC)
• Rachel Winstead from Metropolitan Arts Institute (AZ)
• Linda Ta Yonemoto from Good For You Money (NV)

Meet ALL the NGPF Distinguished Educators

There are now 1,275 NGPF Distinguished Educators!

• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 52, announced May 2025)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 51, announced April 2025)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 50, announced March 2025)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 49, announced January 2025)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 48, announced December 2024)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 47, announced October 2024)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohorts 45-46, announced September 2024)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 44, announced July 2024)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 43, announced June 2024)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 41-42, announced April 2024)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 40, announced March 2024)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 39, announced January 2024)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 38, announced December 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 37, announced October 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Pilot Cohort, announced September 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohorts 35-36, announced August 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 34, announced July 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 33, announced June 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 32, announced May 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 31, announced April 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 30, announced February 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 29, announced January 2023)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 28, announced December 2022)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohort 27, announced November 2022)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohorts 25-26, announced September 2022)
• Meet the Distinguished Educators (earned Cohorts 1-24, announced July 2022)

About the Author

Christian Sherrill

Former teacher, forever financial education nerd. As NGPF's Director of Teacher Success, Christian is laser-focused on helping the heroic teachers who fuel NGPF's mission to guarantee all students a life-changing personal finance course. Having paid down over $40k in student loans in the span of 3 years - while living in the Bay Area on an entry level teacher's salary - he's eager to help the next generation avoid financial pitfalls one semester at a time.