Maria Riofrio Receives NFEC's 2019 Financial Education Instructor of the Year Award for Financial Literacy Education
The National Financial Educators Council honors Maria Riofrio with its 2019 Financial Education Instructor of the Year award for her work in financial literacy. As Assistant Director at the LiSA Initiative, Riofrio has empowered individuals in diverse communities across the United States to work toward greater financial security.
NORCORSS, Ga., Feb. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The National Financial Educators Council (NFEC) has honored Maria Riofrio with its Financial Education Instructor of the Year award for her work in financial literacy. As Assistant Director at the LiSA Initiative (https://lisainitiative.com), the financial literacy platform of First Financial Security, Inc. (https://firstfinancialsecurity.com), Riofrio has empowered individuals to work toward greater financial security and has expanded the LiSA Initiative to train a network of financial education instructors.
Each year, the NFEC recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to promoting financial literacy over the previous year with the Financial Education Instructor of the Year award. As a national trainer for First Financial Security, Inc., Maria Riofrio has trained dozens of agents to engage their communities with a dynamic curriculum she helped develop. After struggling to understand United States financial culture as a new immigrant twelve years ago, Maria Riofrio is committed to ensuring that others have easy access to the knowledge she once lacked.
Since Riofrio joined the LiSA Initiative in 2014, she has educated youth in correctional facilities, trainers on military bases, teenagers at a transitional home as well as Cambodian, Laotian, Hmong and Hispanic communities around the country on financial literacy. She has dedicated her career not only to directly educating diverse communities, but to empowering other educators as well. "Maria Riofrio is an inspiration to her students, colleagues and her First Financial Security, Inc. agents. She has been instrumental in developing the LiSA initiative, is passionate about the curriculum and cares about her message of financial empowerment. Her story is remarkable, and she has inspired so many to take financial education seriously," noted Debbie Gerlicher, Director of the LiSA initiative.
About the LiSA Initiative:
The LiSA Initiative is a grassroots movement created by First Financial Security, Inc. to address the financial concerns that women and their families experience every day in the United States through financial literacy education. Launched formally in 2015, LiSA brings financial literacy to Americans and their communities where they live and work. LiSA has evolved into First Financial Security's financial literacy platform. It aims to help all people – women, men, families, communities– who want to take control of their lives and build a better future through financial education. LiSA does this by providing financial literacy curricula, training, mentoring, advocacy and empowerment.
Join the conversation and stay updated about the latest industry, LiSA and First Financial Security, Inc. developments by visiting LiSA's Facebook Page, First Financial Security's Facebook Page, and following First Financial Security on Twitter @FFSNews. Also, feel free to stop by the FFS YouTube Channel. Maria Riofrio is also on Instagram as @FFSMariaRiofrio.
For more information, contact:
Camille Cohen
Marketing Director
First Financial Security, Inc
camillec(at)firstfinancialsecurity(dot)com
770-662-8025 T
SOURCE National Financial Educators Council
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