Ambassadors are high school economics educators that collaborate with Econiful staff on instructional materials and methods. They provide honest feedback about lesson and assessment successes and failures so that our curriculum is the best it can be.
2024-2025
Michael Sassi
Highland High School | Gilbert, AZ
Michael Sassi is in his tenth year in education. He teaches AP Government and AP Macroeconomics, as well as a course that combines on-level Government and Economics into a year-long course. Michael enjoys teaching students about the impact that economics education and principles of economic thinking can have on their education, and their personal and professional future.
Lindsey Stanton
Mount Si High School | Snoqualmie, WA
Lindsey Stanton is a fourth year economics and personal finance teacher in western Washington. She is passionate about real life applications of teaching and loves showing students the power of economic thinking in their everyday lives.
Patrick Johnson
Nashua High School North | Nashua, NH
Patrick Johnson is entering his 19th year as a Social Studies teacher at Nashua High School North. He teaches AP Micro Economics, AP Macro Economics, on-level Economics, and Civics. Additionally, he is the advisor of the Nashua North Student Senate.
Alecia Adams
Brown County High School | Nashville, IN
Alecia Adams teaches Economics, AP Micro/Macroeconomics, Personal Finance, and a variety of social studies electives. She has taught for seventeen years, spending the last decade at Brown County High School in Nashville, IN. She enjoys traveling with her family, reading non-fiction, and spending time on her porch watching sunsets and growing old with her husband.
Marc Turner
Spring Hill High School | Chapin, SC
Marc Turner teaches AP Macroeconomics, AP US Government, Economics/Personal Finance and US History. He is currently the President of the South Carolina Council for the Social Studies. He sponsors the Rho Kappa Honor Society and co-sponsors the Model UN team.
Myra Frazer
Northeastern Local School | Defiance, OH
Myra Frazer changed careers in 2017 by earning her MEd in Secondary Education through a licensure program at the University of Toledo. She teaches 9th grade Modern World History and 10th grade Economics in a rural high school in Ohio. Myra is always looking to dig deeper into her field and actively participate in many professional development opportunities throughout the year. This is the best job she's ever had!
Timothy Dye
Perry Meridian High School | Indianapolis, IN
Tim Dye is a current Economics and Sociology teacher and has served students for over twenty years in grades K-12 as a classroom teacher and administrator. He has worked with the Indiana Department of Education on aligning Economic Standards to a national curriculum, and works with the Council for Economic Education as a master teacher. He is especially proud of his role in helping his school district earn the Title III Distinguished School Award in 2020, through his work with EL learners.
Elizabeth St. Lawrence
Holly Springs High School | Holly Springs, NC
Liz St. Lawrence enjoys teaching AP Macroeconomics, Economics Personal Finance and the occasional AP US History class. Liz helps support fellow NC teachers by providing EPF training with NCCEE. Liz is always looking for new ways to make Economics exciting in her classroom.
2023-2024
Jason Rath
Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, CA
Josie Sodersten
Fairmont Junior Senior High School, Fairmont, MN
Lianne Kulik
Long Branch High School, Long Branch, NJ
Luke Starkey
Chesterton High School, Chesterton, IN
Kyle Gillespie
Sparkman High School, Harvest, AL
Matt Walsh
Wheaton High School, Wheaton, IL
Maureen Flores
Desert Christian High School, Tucson, AZ
Melanie Weser
Peninsula Catholic High School, Newport, VA
Sara Howard
Decatur High School, Decatur, AL