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We’re here to make financial aid and personal finance easier to understand. Throughout the year, we offer workshops, presentations, and campus events designed to give you practical tools, clear information, and real-life tips to help you navigate your finances with confidence

 

Highlights

  • The Financial Wellness Series is a monthly webinar designed to help you build practical money skills with confidence. Hosted by Shahar Ziv, each session explores topics like budgeting, credit, investing, job offers, off-campus living, and more — so you can make informed financial decisions, one step at a time.
  • April is Financial Literacy Month. Throughout the month, Student Financial Support hosts weekly opportunities to test your financial knowledge, learn quick money tips, and enter our giveaways. Stop by, try your hand at financial trivia, and pick up tools and resources to boost your financial confidence. To be entered into the weekly giveaways, make sure to log into your free iGrad account before completing the weekly tasks to ensure that you get credit.

Spring 2026

Financial Literacy Month Week 1: March 30 - April 4
Complete the Financial Wellness Checkup on iGrad to be entered into a giveaway to win a JBL Speaker.

Financial Literacy Month Week 2: April 5 - 11
Read an iGrad article to be entered into a giveaway to win an air fryer.

Crypto? I Barely Know Her: Investing 201 (Financial Wellness)
Stocks, crypto, and all the tricky stuff - investing tips that won’t make your head spin.
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Time: 5:00 p.m. EST
Register

Spin the Wheel: April 8
Answer financial wellness-themed trivia to spin the wheel and win prizes (French press, hammock, Lego set, etc.)!
Location: Breezeway
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. EST 

Financial Literacy Month Week 3: April 12 - 18
Watch an iGrad video to be entered into a giveaway to win a portable bluetooth projector and screen. 

Financial Literacy Month Week 4: April 19 - 25
Complete an iGrad course to be entered into a giveaway to win a Kindle.

Our financial wellness series are hosted by Shahar Ziv.

Shahar es un educador, escritor y orador experimentado que es experto en simplificar el complejo y a veces intimidante mundo de las finanzas personales. Lleva enseñando finanzas personales a estudiantes universitarios de Hopkins desde 2019 y también ha enseñado a estudiantes de Harvard, Columbia, NYU, UChicago y Wharton.

Shahar emigró a Estados Unidos cuando tenía tres años. Al ser el primero de su familia en ir a la universidad en Estados Unidos, tuvo que aprender a desenvolverse en el difícil proceso universitario, desde la solicitud y la admisión hasta la ayuda financiera y el trabajo en el campus. Le apasiona ayudar a guiar a otros estudiantes en el camino hacia el bienestar financiero.   

Shahar se licenció Phi Beta Kappa en Economía por la Universidad de Cornell y obtuvo su MBA en la Harvard Business School. Es miembro del Consejo de Administración de la Cooperativa de Crédito para Empleados de la Universidad de Harvard.

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