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Kelly Peeler, the Founder and CEO of NextGenVest, provides students with mobile education and student-based advice on key decisions around student loans, budgeting, investing and employment. Watch her discuss how to empower young people through economic strategies and the importance of building financial literacy. Kelly is the Founder and CEO of NextGenVest, a New York City based start-up that is helping a global community of students effectively manage their money to pursue their passions. NextGenVest provides students with mobile education and student-based advice on key decisions around student loans, budgeting, investing, and employment. Since its recent inception, NextGenVest has grown to help high school and college students in 15 states and 8 countries. Kelly Peeler has always been interested in empowering young people through economic strategies. She studied the history of financial crises at Harvard and as an undergraduate started Business Across Borders, a non profit that helped Iraqi University students rebuild their own economy by starting their own companies. She was selected as one of the eight Kauffman Foundation Global Scholars and as Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx