Pam & Dyalekt
Pamela Capalad is a Certified Financial Planner™ and Accredited Financial Counselor™ She's been in financial services since the last bad time, and we'll get through this one too. Her mission is to help people who feel ashamed or embarrassed about money have a safe space to talk about it and make real financial progress.
Dyalekt has been an MC, theaterer, and educator (mostly all at once) for over 20 years. He is the Director of Pedagogy at Pockets Change where we use hip hop to change the way we talk about money. He brings hip hop to places that don't know they need it but desperately do.
Together they founded financial liberation platforms Pockets Change, See Change, and Get Shameless. They regularly teach workshops, make art, and speak on how art, culture, and media are used to perpetuate racial wealth inequality and how artists have the power to change the narrative.
Pamela Capalad, CFP® AFC®
Pamela Capalad is a Certified Financial Planner™ and Accredited Financial Counselor™ and has been in financial services since 2008. She founded Brunch & Budget to help people have a safe place to make real financial progress and get shameless about money!
Pam has been featured in the Washington Post, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, Vice Magazine, and was named New York Magazine’s Best of New York 2019. She was named one of Investments News 40 Under 40 in 2016, Financial Advisor Magazine's Young Advisors to Watch in 2019, received Jump$tart's 2022 Innovation in Financial Literacy Award, and AFCPE's Financial Planning Center of the Year award in 2022. Pam is a Global Good Fund Fellow, class of 2022.
Dyalekt, Podcast Host, Workshop MC
Brian "Dyalekt" Kushner has been a hip-hop MC, theater maker, and educator for nearly 20 years. He’s the director of pedagogy at Pockets Change, where he uses hip-hop pedagogy to demystify personal finance and help students take control of their relationship with money. He is the recipients of Jump$tart’s 2022 Innovation in Financial Literacy award. He’s rocked (performed/taught/keynoted) everywhere from conferences like AFCPE and Prosperity Now, to stages like SXSW and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, to classrooms that range from Yale to your cousin’s living room.
Pam, Dyalekt, and their friend Andrea Ferrero also co-founded Pockets Change, a hip hop and finance organization for youth with a mission to change the way we talk about finance.
