Junior Achievement of Arizona
Taysia Snead is a dedicated educational professional currently serving as Program Manager at Junior Achievement of Arizona, where responsibilities include collaborating with education partners, facilitating effective communication, and training educators and volunteers to enhance student learning experiences at JA BizTown/JA Finance Park. Previous experience includes founding an ICAN satellite site as Site Lead, providing supervision and support as Site Director at Maricopa County's Head Start program, and various roles focused on youth development and educational programming at organizations like Phield House, Jumpstart, and the Greater Valley YMCA. Taysia holds a Bachelor of Arts in Adult & Organizational Development from Temple University, complementing a solid background in program management and staff training in diverse educational settings.
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.