Suze Orman will speak tonight at 7 p.m. in the Rose Theatre about financial issues potentially of concern to students at The U of M.
Orman is an internationally acclaimed personal finance expert, best-selling and award-winning author, Emmy-awarded talk show host, producer and motivational speaker.
She will lecture, answer students' questions and sign copies of her books.
Joseph Weekly, ideas and issues chair for The Student Activities Council is confident in her advice and ability to get through to her audience.
"The students that are there will go home remembering what she says and be able to apply the information they get to their own lives and finances," he said.
Candace Montgomery, freshman pre-pharmacy major said she knows many students that are required to hear Orman speak and some that need to.
"I know a lot of kids that don't know about money management and I think (Orman) can help with that," she said.
T.J. Werre, sophomore journalism major, said he also thinks the lecture will be beneficial to those who go.
"College kids don't know how to handle money and get into debt easily," he said.
SAC has received requests for a financial speaker and chose Orman because she gives useful and easy-to-apply financial advice, according to Weekly.
He has seen her television show and said she is fun and easy to understand.
"She is very animated," he said.
Orman tailors her speaking engagements to fit specific audiences, ensuring each lecture is fresh and new.
Students can expect to receive information and advice about tuition and credit card debt as well as general money management information.
Orman has gone from being a waitress to climbing the financial ranks to the executive level and is now helping people with their money issues through television, magazine columns, books and speaking engagements.
She is nominated for two Daytime Emmy awards this year in the categories of Outstanding Service Show Host and Outstanding Service Show for the PBS special about her book, "The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke."
In 2004 she won an Emmy for Outstanding Service Show Host for her special on her book, "The Laws of Money the Lessons of Life."
She is currently a monthly contributing financial editor to O: The Oprah Magazine in the United States and South Africa.
