Bettye J. Banks
Senior Vice President for
Education
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater
Dallas
Banks has more than
26 years of experience with CCCS of Greater Dallas
and has been senior vice president for education
since 1998. She is a certified financial counseling
executive and a certified consumer credit counselor.
Banks has logged more than 25,000 counseling hours
and facilitated over 3,000 seminars, presentations
and workshops on money management, credit and
related topics. She is a published author of several
consumer finance-oriented workbooks and regularly
writes feature articles for various local and
state newspapers and publications, including Today’s
Dallas Woman, Dallas Family and Dallas
Child. She also frequently appears on CBS
Channel 11’s “Positively Texas”
and KRLD’s “The Marty Griffin Show”
as a money management and credit expert. Banks
holds a bachelor of arts degree from Dallas Baptist
University.
Ray Hooper
Education and Housing Director
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater
Dallas
Hooper presents seminars
for the Educational Services Division of CCCS
of Greater Dallas, where he has worked since 1997.
He covers such topics as money management, personal
finance and homebuying. He also serves as a certified
homebuyer education provider with the Texas Department
of Housing and Community Affairs. He is a certified
presenter, consumer interviewer and mediator.
Hooper was previously an associate professor at
Kilgore College and Amber University. He holds
bachelor’s and master’s degrees from
Harding University.
Jackie Hoyer
Senior Community Affairs
Advisor
Houston Branch
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
As senior community
affairs advisor, Hoyer serves as a liaison between
the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Houston
area financial institutions, sharing information
on personal financial education, community and
economic development issues, and the Community
Reinvestment Act. She has held similar positions
with Bank of America and Washington Mutual. Hoyer
has worked on affordable housing initiatives,
down payment assistance programs and homebuyer
counseling programs. She currently sits on the
boards of the Credit Coalition of Houston and
Houston Habitat for Humanity. Additionally, she
serves in an advisory capacity for the Houston
Fannie Mae Advisory Council and Countywide Housing
of Fort Bend County. Hoyer holds a bachelor’s
degree from Ohio Wesleyan University.
Laura Levine
Executive Director
Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
Before joining Jump$tart
in April 2004, Levine was director of the NASDAQ
Educational Foundation and administrator of corporate
giving for The NASDAQ Stock Market Inc. She also
served as director of editorial services and director
of education and information for the National
Association of Securities Dealers Office of Individual
Investor Services. Levine was previously a correspondent
reporter for Credit Union News, covering
Capitol Hill and the regulatory agencies governing
credit unions. She began her career with Vista
Federal Credit Union in Burbank, Calif., and also
worked for the California Credit Union League.
Levine holds a bachelor’s degree from the
University of Southern California and is a graduate
of Western CUNA Management School.
Don Raschke
Deputy Securities Commissioner
Texas State Securities Board
Raschke has worked
for the Texas State Securities Board since 1987
and was named deputy securities commissioner in
2003. He began his career in state government
as an analyst in the Securities Registration Division.
Before becoming deputy commissioner, he was assistant
director of the Dealer Registration Division and
served as the agency’s chief financial officer.
Raschke has served on numerous committees and
project groups for the North American Securities
Administrators Association and currently is a
member of the Corporation Finance Policy Project
Group. He is also immediate past president of
the Texas State Agency Business Administrators’
Association. Prior to joining the State Securities
Board, Raschke spent five years as a registered
representative for A.G. Edwards & Sons. He
holds bachelor of business administration and
master of business education degrees from the
University of Texas at Austin.
Timothy L. Shaunty
President
Texas Council on Economic Education
Shaunty served as director
of the Center for Economic Education at the University
of Houston–Clear Lake before becoming president
of the Texas Council on Economic Education in
2001. During a 30-year career in higher education,
he held a variety of positions, including research
economist and director of governmental relations.
After retirement, he taught government and economics
in the public school system. Shaunty has earned
multiple degrees in agricultural economics, sociology,
business administration and architecture. |
