Dr. Barbara O'Neill is Rutgers Cooperative Extension's Specialist in Financial Resource Management. From 1978 to 2004, she was Family and Consumer Sciences Educator in Sussex County, NJ and taught over 1,100 classes and speaking engagements to over 24,000 adult learners. She also provides national leadership for the Cooperative Extension programs Investing For Your Future and Small Steps to Health and WealthTM and directed the five-year MONEY 2000TM savings and debt reduction campaign in the 1990s that resulted in almost $20 million of savings and debt reduction reported by participants nationwide.
Dr. O'Neill is a prolific writer and has written over 1,500 newspaper articles and over 100 articles for academic journals, conference proceedings, and other professional publications. She is a certified financial planner (CFP®), chartered retirement planning counselor (CRPC®), Certified Financial Educator (CFEd®), accredited financial counselor (AFC), certified housing counselor (CHC), and certified in family and consumer sciences (CFCS). Dr. O'Neill has also held various leadership roles in state and national professional associations and served as president of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE) in 2003. Dr. O'Neill is the author of two trade books, Saving On A Shoestring and Investing On A Shoestring, published by Dearborn Trade, and co-author of Money Talk: A Financial Guide For Women. She has also written three financial case study textbooks, an online Guidebook to Help Late Savers Prepare for Retirement, and six book chapters.She is a frequent presenter at professional conferences.
Dr. O'Neill received her Ph.D. in family financial management in 1995 from Virginia Tech and holds a master's degree in consumer economics from Cornell University and a B.S. in home economics education from the State University of New York at Oneonta. She has received over two dozen awards for program excellence from national professional organizations and almost 350,000 in funding to support her financial education programs. Her research interests include families experiencing financial distress, measuring the impact of financial education programs, and associations between health status and personal finances. O'Neill is Secretray of the Personal Finance Employee Education Foundation.
Contact:
E-mail: oneill@aesop.rutgers.edu
Tele: 732-932-9155, X250
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