Me'Shae Brooks-Rolling

Me’Shae Brooks-Rolling is the author of How To Save Money and Organize Your Finances: Tales of an Urban Consumer, an FDIC MoneySmart-certified instructor of financial literacy at Syracuse University. Brooks-Rolling is currently a contributing writer for an employment advice series, a joint venture of The Post-Standard and Syracuse.com (http://search.syracuse.com/brooks-rolling).  She is also a business and finance columnist for CNY Latino, CNY Vision, and CNY Good News Christian newspapers and has been quoted in Consumer Reports magazine.  A member of the Syracuse Press Club, Brooks-Rolling has appeared on numerous radio and television broadcasts addressing the topic of financial literacy education.

Brooks-Rolling is the founder and president of Rolling Enterprises, Inc., a company that provides financial literacy education in the form of workshops, seminars, tele-seminars and webinars designed to enhance the socio-economic advancement of African-American professionals and entrepreneurs, including those in the Christian community.

Brooks-Rolling’s passion for financial literacy and stewardship began after she had resided in New York City, one of America’s most expensive urban dwelling centers.  After graduating from Syracuse University in 1990 with a Master’s degree in public administration, Brooks-Rolling moved to New York City, where she worked as an auditor for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).  Five years later, she was downsized along with the entire office staff and seized the opportunity to make a transition into the field of special events and conference management.  After obtaining a certification in Meeting and Conference Management from New York University, Brooks-Rolling worked as a production assistant on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, on freelance projects at the New York Stock Exchange, and ultimately at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Special Projects and Community Events where she coordinated award ceremonies, receptions, press conferences and dinner galas held both at City Hall and Gracie Mansion (the mayor’s residence), in addition to major public events like the New York Yankees World Series Championship Ticker Tape Parades.

As a young couple living, working and studying in the Big Apple, Brooks-Rolling and her husband James arrived at the unsettling realization that in spite of their graduate degrees, they were financially illiterate. After learning how to get their financial house in order, Brooks-Rolling was surprised and concerned at the lack of basic financial literacy among family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and church brethren.  This call to activism led her to write a book, How to Save Money & Organize Your Finances: Tales of an Urban Consumer.  Post-9/11 unemployment spurred Brooks-Rolling to entrepreneurship, merging her events planning background with financial literacy education.

In her professional journey, Brooks-Rolling has endured the hardship of unemployment, experienced the chokehold of debt, enjoyed the blessing of a handsome salary, authored a book, and is now passionately teaching others how to become financially astute consumers and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal of becoming philanthropic community investors.

Financial Literacy/Credit Card Management for College Students

Topics:
Best-selling author, Education, Financial & Tax Planning, Wealth Building, Personal Development

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