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Ana Silva
Associate Professor, Finance

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Andrea Ahearn ’17, MEd’19
Assistant Director, Financial Capability Center, Girard School of Business
- ahearnar@merrimack.edu

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978-837-5663
financialcapability@merrimack.edu

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The Financial and Health Coaching course is available during the fall 2019 semester.

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Community members interested in receiving financial coaching through the Financial Capability Center should contact ACT Lawrence at 978-685-6724.

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<section class="content-fluid-slider-container content-fluid dark section" style="background:url('/live/image/gid/67/width/1000/height/500/crop/1/src_region/0,0,400,259/ignore_cropper/1/20506_We_Are_1_190903.rev.1568037842.jpg'); background-size:cover;"><div class="container"><div class="row no-gutters"><div class="col-lg-9"><span class="label">Office of Communications and Marketing</span><h3>Merrimack Students Start School Year in Search of Knowledge and Wisdom</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Merrimack College started the 2019-2020 school year with its traditional Academic Convocation and Mass of the Holy Spirit, encouraging students to recognize the many opportunities for personal, academic and spiritual growth available to them; and to work in union with the supportive community willing to help them make the world a better place, while becoming better versions of themselves.</span></p></p></div><div class="col-lg-3"><div class="d-table h-100 "><div class="d-table-cell align-middle"><a class="btn float-right" href="/live/news/4798-merrimack-students-start-school-year-in-search-of" role="button" title="Merrimack Students Start School Year in Search of Knowledge and Wisdom" aria-label="Merrimack Students Start School Year in Search of Knowledge and Wisdom">Read more </a> </div></div></div></div></div></section>
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