As one of today’s most senior black women in finance, Mellody Hobson had a burning need to understand money. It stemmed from her childhood when she saw the phone get shut off and the car dispossessed. She didn’t want to live like that as an adult.

“I was desperate to understand money…because I always felt like the rug could be pulled.”

So Hobson educated herself. Read how in this New York Times profile (July 18, 2019).