Alexa Naciff

Ever since I was younger, I knew that my field would be in finance and the marketing industry. As one of my mentors taught me, money is awesome for what it can do for me, and I see so much growth and potential in using money as a tool. I've been exploring different pathways in the finance industry, including entrepreneurship with my bilingual financial literacy app that I created during my freshman and sophomore year. My overall goal is to help people with their money and how they can multiply it - to give back to my community. I'm the type of person who believes that you give back what you receive, so if I have gotten help and opportunities, I want to be that person for somebody else to help them have that step forward. My role as undergraduate finance representative means I serve as the bridge of communication between students and faculty, where students come to me with inquiries and questions, and I give them resources like I have been given before. Growing up in a bilingual school where half my day was in English and half in Spanish really shaped who I am, allowing me to see the difference in culture, language, and history. My cosmetology certification, which I earned in high school after completing over a thousand hours of hands-on work, taught me about hard work, resilience, customer service, and the business aspects of running a salon. This certification opened my eyes to the possibilities of finance in other industries beyond the New York stock market - the beauty industry is never going to end, it's only going to be growing.