ZACH TEUTSCH, CFP^®

Zach founded Values Added Financial to help clients live more fulfilling, impactful lives by making wise financial, career, and other life decisions. Zach specializes in working with clients whose values are important to them and has taught financial skills and served individual clients for 15 years. Zach is a nationally known expert in progressive finance and financial empowerment. His writing has appeared in Vox (link), The Billfold (link, link, link), and Greater Greater Washington. Before he launched Values Added Financial, Zach developed the first nationwide financial empowerment programs in the labor movement and reached several hundred thousand union members. He also spent four years at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He lives with his family in Petworth where he has been active in local affairs, first as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner and now at the Chair of the Janeese Lewis George campaign (link). He loves parenting, playing ultimate frisbee, and baking. He graduated from Brown University with honors and concentrations in Economic Sociology and Organizational Behavior.  You can read his full bio here.