IssuesWatch Live: Helping Students Meet the 150-Hour Education Requirement (E2305274)

Brigid is a licensed CPA and university professor at Saint Peter’s University, who teaches and advises students on the pathway to CPA licensure. She is also a passionate advocate for K through 12 education in New Jersey, having written a CPA fiscal literacy blog centered on public school funding and property tax for over 10 years at her website, Civic Parent. With expertise in both the K through 12 and higher education domains, Brigid has identified and helped promote a unique and data-driven approach towards addressing the accounting pipeline challenge between high school and college in New Jersey and beyond: using the federally Perkins-funded career and technical education (CTE) framework to strategically build awareness of the accounting profession at the high school level.

Jeff is the vice president of government relations for the NJCPA. He works with the CEO and the Board of Trustees to create and implement advocacy initiatives that protect and promote the interests of the CPA profession, the business community and the public. Jeff monitors legislative and executive branch activity that impacts CPAs by writing position papers, developing grass roots membership activities to enhance lobbying efforts and raising money for the NJ-CPA-PAC. He is also a liaison to other pro-business groups like the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) and Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey (CIANJ) to coordinate legislative strategies. Prior to joining the NJCPA, Jeff worked on several political campaigns, worked for former Governor Jim Florio and for Common Cause New York. He previously owned a lobbying and public affairs firm. Jeff belongs to Compassion and Choices, the Humane Society and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.