It’s not every day that you get to sit down with a financial expert and learn from them—that’s why it’s so exciting to have Brigitte Morrow Killings, Divisional Director of the South Division for JPMorgan Chase, here to break down banking for us and share tips for Black women entrepreneurs.
While born in Germany, she was raised in Atlanta, Georgia and has been in the banking and finance industry for nearly 30 years. For the past 15 years, she’s focused on building programs to increase the financial health and wellness of low to moderate customers as well as underserved minority communities at all income levels. Initially introduced to the banking industry by her recently deceased and beloved stepfather, Dr. Edward Irons, he encouraged her to pursue a career in banking while pushing her to do her best and to help others.
Check out her responses to these 5 questions.
Can you explain what exactly community banking is and what it brings to a community?
At JPMorgan Chase, ‘community banking’ stems from our 5-year, $30 Billion Racial Equity Commitment, which focuses on helping Black, Hispanic and Latino people boost their financial health, become homeowners, and own and grow their businesses.
As part of this commitment, we’ve hired 150 Community Managers throughout the country who are based at our nearly 300 designated community branches. And while they work at a community branch, they spend much of their time in the community engaging with local organizations, including non-profits and for-profits, teaching financial literacy. Our community branches are designed to host clients and local
partners for workshops on topics like budgeting, building credit, homeownership, small business and investing – all geared to help close the racial equity gap for our Black and Brown community.
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