Emerging Leader 2022 LACIE K. DUNN Financial Expert

Lacie Dunn is a highly skilled finance expert with more than seven years of experience analyzing corporate finances, driving strategic program implementations, and managing special financial projects. She believes her passion for financial analysis, coupled with her current and previous academic and personal experiences, have equipped her with the ability to provide leadership support and insight related to financial modeling, accounting, economic and cost studies/analysis, and data visualization.

Lacie works to publicly recommend in a heartfelt and powerful way the importance of economic development for all people, but specifically African-American women. Through advocacy, she seeks to educate, encourage, and collaborate with others, understanding that advocacy is empty if you can’t energize others around you and motivate them to get involved.

Economic Development

Advocating for resources and financial literacy for African-American women has allowed her to engage, mentor, and collaborate with many people from all walks and regions of life. It has allowed her to be a voice for her local Nashville community, while also working on a larger scale as a mentor and advocate for national issues. Within the Nashville community, she has volunteered with Junior Achievement and their Finance Park.

On a national platform, she has spoken on cryptocurrency and the stock market to the Thursday Network with the Greater Washington Urban League. Her goal is true equality and equity in how we address those things that affect African-American women, and which society until now, has done its best to either ignore, avoid, or diminish. Throughout her various membership organizations, she understood that simply joining or even paying dues is not enough, “I needed to roll up my sleeves and get to work.”

Economic development is not only a personal goal but a calling to her community. Lacie has served on several boards including, but not limited to, United Way, Young Leaders Society, Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee, Impact 100 Nashville, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Parthenon Chapter of Links, Inc, Junior League of Nashville, and Young Leaders Council. Lacie has received the 2021 Horizon Award from the Nashville Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority, Incorporated, and was a 2021 Athena Young Professional Nominee.

Lacie earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration in finance and economics and a Master of Business Administration in finance from Tennessee State University, and is currently pursuing her doctorate at Trevecca Nazarene University.