Kyra Jefferson

I'm currently the Senior Director of Financial Advising and Homeownership, and I've been in this field for about 15 years. My background is in personal financial planning from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where I graduated in 2008. I started my career as a financial representative in affordable housing and on the corporate side, and then I transitioned to the nonprofit sector where I've been able to merge the two and provide financial literacy and affordable housing education, teaching homebuyer education. I currently work for a nonprofit organization called Beyond Housing, where I'm more on the program management side now, but I'm also really a community connector. It's important that we're out making those connections and staying engaged to find out what our community needs, what resources are available to offer to them, and how we can best support each other. My primary role is program management, so I have a staff of about 7 that is more customer-facing, but I do a lot of the partner engagement and collaboration. I really focus on teaching people how to set that solid financial foundation and get prepared to purchase a home, helping others navigate through the homeownership process and finding additional funding that's available for them. I rarely work outside the low to moderate income sector. I've helped hundreds of families really build generational wealth, whether it is increasing their financial savings, building their credit, or purchasing a home, and that is my most notable achievement because a lot of people are impacted by it for generations to come.