Julie Kornegay is a Senior Outreach Advisor with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta – Birmingham Branch. She believes that credentials of value, an increase in higher education completion rates, and increased labor force participation rates will help move many Alabamians out of poverty and into the middle-class. For the past 16 years with the Atlanta Fed her outreach and speaking engagements have focused on working with educators and community members to develop a deeper understanding of economics, finance, and workforce development issues.

She is currently participating in an executive talent share program with the Atlanta Fed’s Community and Economic Development Division. Her primary responsibility is managing the content creation and training program development for the Dashboard for Alabamians to Visualize Income Determination or DAVID. She also serves as the Atlanta Fed’s liaison between our state agency partners, the Governor’s Office on Education and Workforce Transformation, Alabama Works!, and the Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Human Resources.

She has served as an adjunct professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Business teaching personal finance. In 2013, she was inducted into the Alabama Economic Educator’s Hall of Fame.

She currently serves on the Alabama Department of Education’s Career and Technical Education’s Commerce and Information Technology Advisory Council, Governor Ivey’s Human Capital Task Force, The Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways Technical Advisory Council, and most recently, she was appointed to the state Workforce Development Board.