Junior Achievement of Arizona
Jamie Josephs is a Program Coordinator at Junior Achievement of Arizona since October 2023. Prior experience includes an internship at Pippin Properties, Inc. from September 2022 to July 2023 and a psychosocial externship at The Quad Preparatory School from September 2021 to June 2022, where counseling services were provided to Lower School students. Jamie also served as a Graduate Research Assistant at Montclair State University from August 2020 to May 2022, focusing on data collection and analysis in psychological research, and as a Research Assistant at Arizona State University from December 2016 to January 2018, contributing to significant projects involving data management and participant recruitment. Jamie holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Montclair State University and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Linguistics and Psychology from Arizona State University. Additionally, involvement with New York University took place from February 2022 to April 2022.
Junior Achievement of Arizona
For the last 60+ years, Junior Achievement of Arizona (JA) has been empowering the futures of millions of Arizona students by giving them the knowledge and skills they need to manage their money, plan for their future, and make smart academic, career and economic choices. Delivered by 9,500 business and community volunteer mentors, our hands-on, age-appropriate programs focus on three key areas: financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship. Serving more than 80,000 students each year and over 2 million since its founding, JA is shaping the college- and career-readiness conversation, and we play an important role in Arizona’s workforce and economic development. Our programs help students connect what they learn in the classroom to the real world, and demonstrate how learning correlates to earning – knowledge critical to empowering today’s students to be successful, contributing members of society in the future. We serve students with diverse backgrounds and socio-economic status throughout Arizona, with primary focus on providing our programs to students from low-income households. We are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization wholly dependent on the financial and volunteer support of individuals, foundations and businesses.