Tawni Hunt Ferrarini

Tawni H. Ferrarini, director of external affairs, is the Sam M. Cohodas Professor at Northern Michigan University (NMU). She also co-directs the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship. Her teaching, research, and service to the profession focus on the use of technology in the classroom and the integration of economics across subjects and settings. She regularly instructs a variety of online courses and conducts a multitude of hybrid K-12 workshops. She annually visits Japan to help grow the Council for Economic Education there. For this and other work, the U.S. Council for Economic Education recently honored her with the 2012 Albert Beekhuis Center Award. Additionally, she is the inaugural recipient of the 2009 National Association of Economic Educator's Abbejean Kehler Technology Award and a 2009 recipient of an NMU Distinguished Faculty Award. She is a co-author of Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity. She also publishes in articles in journals and writes op-eds for newspapers. She earned her doctorate in economics from Washington University, where she studied under the 1993 Nobel laureate Douglass C. North.
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