UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In honor of Financial Literacy Month in April, the Sokolov-Miller Family Financial and Life Skills Center invites Penn State undergraduates to consider applying to become student ambassadors for the 2022 academic year and in the future. The center hires students for this part-time role each semester, and ambassadors educate their peers across the University about financial literacy.
“Student ambassadors play a critical role in helping the center to empower students with financial literacy knowledge, tools and resources,” said Daad Rizk, the center’s director. “We love our student ambassadors, and we couldn’t fulfill our mission without them.”
Student ambassadors come to the center from many different academic colleges. The center trains them in delivering financial literacy knowledge to their peers, and ambassadors deliver this knowledge in one-on-one meetings as well as presentations to Penn State classes. Ambassadors work with students at every Penn State campus (in person and remotely with students at the University Park campus, and remotely with students at Commonwealth Campuses and Penn State World Campus).
Aidan Kamowski, a sophomore from Harrisburg who has worked as a student ambassador since August 2021, spoke highly of the role.
“I love coming to my job every day,” said Kamowski, who is majoring in supply chain and information systems in the Smeal College of Business. “The center has given me the opportunity…
