THE 3-MINUTE INTERVIEW: Misrak Girma

Misrak Girma has helped teach more than 100 D.C. children from ages 6 to 12 about managing their money, as part of TD Bank’s WOW!Zone program designed to help kids develop strong financial skills. Girma is the assistant vice president of the TD Bank in Constitution Square. What kind of subjects do you cover when teaching kids about finance? Subjects include savings, budgeting, personal finance, understanding lines of credit and the stock market. TD Bank instructors teach roughly 5,000 classes of 100,000 students a year.