Diversity & Innovation
A series highlighting Diversity and Inclusion in Innovation and Design Thinking
Kathryn Finney
March 8th, 2021
Kathryn Finney, a graduate of Yale University and Rutgers University, is the founder and Chief Shopping Officer of Simply Good Media, a media company dedicated to teaching the world how to live great on less. Additionally, she is the CEO of its parent company, TBF GROUP, LLC. Kathryn also created the international brand Budget Fashionista, designed the successful website, The Budget Fashionista, and is the author of the best-selling book How to Be a Budget Fashionista. Personally and professionally she is an advocate for projects that improve the lives of women and of projects that expand technology access for African and African-American communities. She additionally founded the Robert Finney Technology Fund, dedicated to her late father, a former engineer at EMC2 and Microsoft, that provides scholarship funds to African-American high school and college students studying technology-related fields.