Kelly Rush Assistant Professor of Finance

Kelly is Assistant Professor of Finance at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, where she serves as the coordinator for the university’s Financial Planning Program and department chair for the Jetter School of Business. Kelly’s primary teaching responsibilities are undergraduate and graduate finance courses including many of the courses in the CFP^® program. Kelly has a passion for helping young people develop a stewardship perspective and for preparing them to use their careers in the financial services industry as ministry platforms. Kelly has a D.B.A. in Finance from Anderson University, where her research specialty was in subprime mortgage defaults during the 2008 mortgage crisis. Kelly has academic publications in the Journal of Finance and Accountancy and the Journal of International Business Education. Kelly is married to Jon, a chemist who manages a quality control laboratory for Boehringer Ingelheim, the world’s largest privately-held pharmaceutical company. The couple has two children, Landon and Lucy. The family is active in their local church, New Life Church of the Nazarene.