Stacey Tisdale is a journalist and author who has covered business and financial issues for more than 15 years. Her book was released in 2007 and is entitled “The True Cost of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money.”

Tisdale has also partnered with NFL Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott’s All Stars Helping Kids Foundation to develop a financial literacy curriculum for high school students. The name of the curriculum is Winning Play$. The curriculum has won multiple awards including the U.S. Department of Education’s Excellence in Economic Education Award in 2010 and 2011 and The National Association of Black Journalists Community Service Award.

In addition to the Winning Play$ curriculum, she also created a personal finance curriculum aimed at college students. The curriculum is now a mandatory class at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. CUNY schools also offer the curriculum.

Tisdale has also studied the subject of professional athletes financial behavior. She has conducted research for submission to Congress, and she has also created programs for the WNBA, the NFL, and corporations such as the Washington Mystics, the New York Giants, and Microsoft that teach financial education and life skills programs.

Tisdale appears as a financial contributor on NBC’s Today Show and AriseTV. She also blogs for the Huffington Post and reports for Al Jazeera America.

In the past, Tisdale has worked for the CNN family of networks, CBS, Wall Street Journal Television, and CNBC.

She has also appeared as a financial contributor in Oprah’s O magazine and Essence magazine.

The following video is a segment from “Need to Know” where Tisdale travels to Mississippi to examine a program designed to help low-income, mostly African-American children save for college. It examines the racial gap in college graduation rates as well as the wealth gap and how they contribute to long term outcomes in young people’s lives. The program also teaches them about banking and money.

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