Kristin Schell

With over a decade of experience helping individuals, families, and organizations to understand credit building as asset building, Kristin keeps the programs up-to-date and running smoothly. Previously, she worked at Justine PETERSEN, a CDFI and microlender in St. Louis, where she ran a national secured credit card and small-dollar loan program. Kristin was the lead credit building trainer for the “Asset Building through Credit” Pilot Program—a FIELD project through the Aspen Institute, as well as the Chicago Credit Building Coalition and the Local Initiatives, Support Corporation's network of Financial Opportunity Centers—during which she trained more than 100 non-profit organizations. Kristin was part of the inaugural class of Emerging Leaders in Microenterprise (ELM2), an Aspen Institute FIELD program in 2013, and spent six years as a board member of Credit Builders Alliance in Washington, D.C. She currently serves on the board of the June Jessee Memorial Foundation. Kristin has her Master of Social Work from Saint Louis University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas.