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| Thesis | Three Essays on Money Arguments Between Spouses (2010) |
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| Discipline | Personal financial planning |
| Website | sonyalutter |
Sonya Lutter is an American financial planner,academic,author,and professor. She is the director of Financial Health and Wellness in the School of Financial Planning at the Texas Tech University College of Human Sciences.
Lutter grew up in the rural town of Kingman,Kansas,where her grandparents were custom harvesters of wheat,whose worked involved seasonal long-term travel in the Midwestern United States. [3] [4] She said that her views on money were shaped by growing up in a very small agricultural town and an incident in which her sister stole money from her piggy bank. [3] She graduated from Kingman High School in 2000. [2]
While working as a summer camp counselor,Lutter said she befriended a deaf girl,which caused her to want to go to college to become a speech pathologist. She enrolled in college at Kansas State University (KSU) and declared speech pathology as her major. After job shadowing practitioners working in the field and taking some of the required science coursework,she withdrew from her classes and changed majors. She said she found financial planning because she liked numbers and education,and wanted to help people. [3] [4] She was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in personal financial planning from KSU in 2003. [4]
After graduating,she said that she wanted to understand financial conflicts in family and couple dynamics,so she enrolled in a graduate education at KSU researching marriage and family therapy. She was awarded a Master of Science in 2003. [4]
She earned a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 2010 from Texas Tech University in personal financial planning. [5]
Texas Tech University School of Financial Planning named her a Distinguished Alumni in 2023. [6]
Lutter began her career as a marriage and family therapist. [3] [1] While working on her PhD,Lutter co-founded the Financial Therapy Association and served as the inaugural president in 2009. [7] [8] She became an assistant professor of family studies and human services in 2010 at KSU, [9] [10] a position in which she held until she was promoted to an associate professor in 2014, [10] and a full professor in 2019. While a professor at KSU,she was the Program Director of the Personal Finance Planning department,the Director of the School of Family Studies and Human Services, [11] and was a Mary L. Vanier endowed professor. [10] [12] While under her leadership,the School of Family Studies and Human Services changed names to the Department of Applied Human Sciences. [13]
In 2014 the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education gave her an outstanding journal article award. [14] In 2017 the Financial Planning Association awarded her with the Best theoretical research paper award. [15]
She served as the director of research and education for Herbers &Company for one year. [16]
She has served as associate editor for the Journal of Family and Economic Issues,on the editorial board of the Journal of Financial Therapy and on the international scientific board of the Italian Journal of Sociology of Education. [4]
In 2022,she was named the inaugural director Financial Health and Wellness in the School of Financial Planning at Texas Tech University. [5] She also serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Systemic Financial Professionals. [17]
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