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Dara Duguay

Executive Director of Credit Builders Alliance, Financial Education Expert, Author

Dara Duguay
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Dara Duguay Biography

Dara Duguay is the Executive Director of the Credit Builders Alliance. Prior to her current role, she operated her own consulting practice, advising clients such as TD Bank, the World Bank Group, Experian, Visa, and SunTrust Bank on financial education efforts. Duguay previously held the position of Director of Citi’s Office of Financial Education, where she managed a $200 million global commitment. Before her tenure at Citi, she was the Executive Director of the Jumpstart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, advocating for enhanced financial education for youth. She began her career in the field as the Director of Education for the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Los Angeles.

Duguay is recognized as a national expert on personal finance. Her media presence spans major U.S. print publications, and she has been a frequent guest on national television and radio networks. She is the author of three personal finance books: "The Citi Commonsense Money Guide for Real People," "Please Send Money: A Financial Survival Guide for Young Adults on Their Own," and "Don’t Spend Your Raise: And 59 Other Money Rules You Can’t Afford to Break."

As an experienced public speaker, Duguay has delivered speeches at numerous prestigious conferences, including the G8 summit in Moscow on financial literacy, the European Commission’s summit on financial capacity, and the OECD annual meeting. She addresses key issues such as credit building strategies to achieve financial goals and long-term stability, improving credit scores, and managing credit effectively. Her discussions also encompass financial challenges faced by young adults, including strategies for achieving independence and avoiding dependency.

Duguay has been honored with the Medal of Merit from the U.S. Treasury’s Savings Bond Volunteer Committee and was appointed to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Economics Steering Committee. She holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Michigan and received her M.A. in International Relations from Schiller University in Paris, France. She resides in Washington, DC.

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Dara Duguay Speaking Topics

  • Young Adults: Leaving the Nest… Only to Return.

    Young adults are hit by a double whammy in today’s economy. College graduates are leaving school with overwhelming levels of student loan debt and are confronting a soft job market with too few good paying jobs. This phenomenon has led countless young adults to move back home, primarily for economic reasons. In this presentation Dara Duguay covers all the necessary financial strategies to help young adults through these challenging times. It gives parents and caregivers solid tips to avoid a culture of dependency but still provide the support that allows young adults to build up the discipline and skills to eventually live independently.

  • Building Resilience through the Challenges of Unemployment.

    Our job market continues to suffer. There are still too many job seekers and not enough jobs. The competition for these scarce jobs can take a toll on the job seeker’s self-confidence, which in turn hampers their interview performance. In this presentation, Dara Duguay draws from her own life experience after being laid-off from a senior management position at Citigroup during the height of the financial crisis. Her journey and those of her laid-off colleagues and friends taught her what it takes to succeed in today’s difficult job market. Learn the secrets of staying resilient and maintaining a positive attitude after receiving multiple rejections. Understand the changes in the hiring process that have resulted in multiple interviews, long recruitment time periods, examinations, requests for business/ marketing/ strategic plans. And the lack of closure, as non-communication becomes the new norm. These realities make it more important than ever to learn how to be “resilient” and stay in the game and not become a discouraged worker statistic.

  • Economic Opportunity for All.

    Opportunity is one of our country’s most cherished ideals and one of our most valuable national assets. However, the promise of opportunity seems like more of a broken promise to many Americans. They feel overwhelmed by barriers that are limiting them from reaching their full economic potential. In this inspiring speech, Dara Duguay talks about the many financial decisions (payday lending, rent-to-own, no retirement plan, etc.) that often trap people in a vicious cycle of debt and poverty. Thankfully, this fate is not predetermined. Duguay lays out the smart financial choices that Americans can make, regardless of their income level, in order to set them on the path to achieve Economic Opportunity for All.

Dara Duguay Books

  • The Citi Commonsense Money Guide for Real People
    The Citi Commonsense Money Guide for Real People

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Dara Duguay is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Young Adults: Leaving the Nest… Only to Return., Building Resilience through the Challenges of Unemployment. and Economic Opportunity for All.. The estimated speaking fee range to book Dara Duguay for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Dara Duguay generally travels from Washington, DC, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Sally Blount, Ngaire Woods, Naomi Wolf, Nadine Strossen and Amy Goodman. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Dara Duguay for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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