PNYA's “Post Break” presents: Personal Finance with The Actors Fund. The Actors Fund (TAF) offers services and classes for the entertainment community. TAF fosters stability and resiliency, while providing a safety net for performing arts and entertainment professionals over their lifespan. This event will help individuals decide whether they should work for a facility or freelance.

Rebecca Selkowe, from The Actors Fund will tell us all about the financial wellness classes offered by TFA. The classes include “Budgeting Nuts & Bolts”, “Psychology of Money”, “Investing Basics for Creative Professionals”, “Dealing with Fluctuating Income”, “Your Financial Mindset”, and “What are your Money Rules”. The Financial Wellness Program seeks to engage, educate and empower performing arts and entertainment professionals about the role of money in their lives.

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Guest Speaker:

Rebecca Selkowe - The Actors Fund, Financial Wellness Program Manager

Rebecca is a NYC-based consumer finance educator, musician, and attorney, host of the Rock Your Money® Jam Sessions podcast, and author of Dominate Your Debt: A Work & Play Book.
Rebecca manages the Financial Wellness Program at The Actors Fund, a national non-profit organization that serves the performing arts and entertainment community. Rebecca specializes in helping individuals, couples, and groups to manage and eliminate debt and create financial stability with multiple, variable, and episodic streams of income.
Rebecca earned her B.A., magna cum laude, from Middlebury College and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. Lover of languages, people, and food, she has lived, worked, and studied in France, Romania, Austria, and China. She is a classically-trained singer, a budding songwriter, and a competitive karaoke league champion.

Moderator: 

Carl Marxer - Picture Editor

Carl is a freelance picture editor with clients including Hearst, Gigantic Pictures, Buttons Studio and independent producers in the New York City area. He has worked for Vice Media, Meredith, and CNN. Carl recently finished Vamik’s Room, a documentary that profile five-time Nobel Prize nominee Vamik Volkan, a psychologist specializing in international conflict resolution. The film has been screened at the Montreal Film Festival, New Haven Documentary Film Festival and the Global Health Film Festival. It is scheduled to be distributed by PBS September, 2021.