Stephen Day, Ph.D. is a term associate professor in the School of Business and the director of the VCU Center for Economic Education. Day taught high school economics, government and world history for eight years in Raleigh, North Carolina, before becoming the programs director for the North Carolina Council on Economic Education. He moved to Richmond with his wife and children in 2014. He has written many peer-reviewed works on teaching economics, is the winner of the 2024 Economics Pedagogy Scholar Award, and is the chair of the Virginia Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. He runs a blog called “Paper Robots: Helping Families Talk About Money and Work,” and has a forthcoming book called “Teach a Kid to Save.” He is delighted to live in a town with so many excellent coffee shops.