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Steve Kautz
Steve Kautz, MBA, CPF
Financial Education Programs Specialist
Finance Authority of Maine
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Steve Kautz, MBA, CPF

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Steve has worked on financial literacy efforts in Maine since 2004, and in July 2023 he started at FAME as a Financial Education Programs Specialist. He is a WISE-Certified Personal Finance Educator, has a B.S. in economics from Southern Connecticut State University, an MBA from the University of Hartford, and served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer.

In the fall of 2003, he started a 20-year connection to the Waynflete School in Portland, where he taught math and personal finance, advised middle and upper school students, and coached baseball. Steve worked with students to create the Finance Club and an award-winning LifeSmarts team (Nationals 2013, 2014, and 2015). In 2011, Steve coached a Waynflete team to victory in the Boston Federal Reserve Economics Cup Challenge.

Steve was named Maine Jump$tart Financial Educator of the Year for 2012, was the keynote speaker at the Maine Jump$tart Annual Teacher Conferences in 2015 and 2023, and was Maine Jump$tart’s training coordinator from 2017 to 2023.

Steve and his family moved to Seville, Spain in July 2016 where he taught English and business English and learned many new personal finance lessons. He now lives in Portland with his wife and their son.

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