Author name: Elara Voskian

Elara Voskian designs accessible, trauma-informed budgeting courses for underserved communities, blending behavioral finance with community development experience. She holds a CFP® designation and spent eight years co-creating financial literacy curricula with rural cooperatives across three continents. Her work integrates participatory budgeting models and has been piloted in 12 countries. She lectures at the Global Institute for Financial Inclusion and authored the open-access course 'Budgeting Beyond Scarcity.'