Meet The Savvy Sisters
The Authors Behind
"The Money Adventures of
Grandma Deer and Her Granddeers"
Patricia Davis is a former corporate financial management executive who conducts seminars, nationwide on the topic of Financial Literacy and provides personal financial counseling to individuals (and couples) at all income levels with a special emphasis on under-served populations.
Ms. Davis is the Managing Director of Davis Financial Services and is the Executive Director of Money Matters, Inc., a 501 C (3) non-profit corporation. Both have provided financial literacy education and training to hundreds of adults and children. Ms. Davis, a native Washingtonian, graduated, with honors, from Howard University with a B.S. in
mathematics and statistics. She finished in the top 1% of her M.B.A. class at Stanford University and became the first minority in the Business School’s history to graduate with honors. Ms. Davis also has a Master of Science degree in Personal Financial Planning from Golden Gate University, where she received her class’ Top Student Award. She graduated, with distinction, from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Georgetown University.
Ms. Davis has held high-level finance positions at some of the country’s premier companies. She is the author of three financial management primers: Mimi, Money and Me--101 Realities About Money daddy Never Taught Me But Mama Always Knew, Money Secrets for the Sandwich Generation (Squeezed in the Financial Middle), and Going Broke is No Joke—52 Money Tips Everybody Should Know.
A leader in the public health field, Charlene A. Day, PhD, MPA, CHES has spent over three decades designing, implementing and evaluating strategies to improve health, reduce health disparities, and advance health equity for disadvantaged communities throughout the United States. Throughout her career, she has advised members of Congress; Mayors; heads of corporations; and staff in federal, state and local health agencies on chronic health issues confronted by underserved and underinsured communities. Through it all, she has learned that issues of money and health are integrally connected and that finances, or the lack thereof, can be a real nuisance when seeking to improve personal, family and community life.
After developing hundreds of successful health education initiatives and witnessing first-hand how money and health are interconnected, Dr. Day began having conversations with families about wealth and health. She found that when talking to parents, many indicated they had forgotten basic financial literacy lessons learned in school or at home, or simply never learned money management “basics.” Most could recite money challenges that directly impacted their health, such as: not being able to afford a gym membership or exercise equipment, or not having resources to pursue a healthy diet.
Dr. Day answered their calls with information and education and has been combining important health sustaining messages with smart money management skills ever since. Through her work in her company, Education for Quality Living, with the non-profits Community Partners for Better Health and The Wealth Club,™ Dr. Day has reached hundreds of youth and parents with basic and fun messages about how to save money and how to spend it wisely. Grandma Deer was conceived as the next important figure in the education process, offering an opportunity to reach more people with fun stories and sage advice. Dr. Day advises, as Grandma Deer does, “listen up, you may just learn something.”