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Ajamu Loving

Dr. Ajamu Loving serves as Associate Professor of Finance at The University of North Texas at Dallas. He has published articles in The Review of Black Political Economy, The Journal of Housing and The Built Environment, and GSTF Business Review. His research focuses primarily on wealth building in minority populations.

Before academia, Dr. Loving was a financial consultant at LaSalle Bank (now Bank of America) in Chicago, IL. He worked in a bank branch, providing investment and insurance advice to bank clientele and seminars for the community and surrounding businesses.

Dr. Loving became the first African American to earn his Ph.D. in Personal Financial Planning when he graduated from Texas Tech University, where he was an AT&T Chancellor’s fellow, and a B.A. from Morehouse College cum laude, where he majored in Economics and minored in Mathematics.

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