Our Founder

Maura Cunningham is dedicated to closing the racial and gender wealth gaps as well as the opportunity gap that exists today. Determined to make this vision a reality, Maura combined her entrepreneurial skills and her passion for working with teenage students and she went on to found Rock The Street, Wall Street, (RTSWS) in 2012. RTSWS sparks girls’ enthusiasm for finance at a critical age and makes them aware of the societal benefits personal financial knowledge and math-oriented careers can have.

Maura enjoyed a robust career on Wall Street for more than 25 years with Merrill Lynch, Lincoln Financial Group and Capital Group. This included her professional rise on the trading floor and responsibility in Capital Markets, Real Estate Syndication, Mortgage Backed Securities and financial and wealth management. Maura then created a way to harness the power of understanding math, investing, and finance to reach the next generations of girls which in turn increases their proactive training and career selection to include investment, financial and technology roles.

Rock the Street, Wall Street is considered a leader among non-profits focused on the M of STEM in the nation. It has been recognized by The White House, Catalyst, Nasdaq, Womens Bond Club of New York and The Today Show for its goals to engineer social and industrial change.

Maura has been committed to working with underserved girls for over a decade. She continues trading options for her own accounts. Maura has an adult daughter who is an accomplished trial lawyer.

Maura speaks regularly at corporate and national events over the past several years on a variety of financial and workforce-oriented topics. She specializes in looking to the future and solutions around losing girls in the M in STEM and on how we can better engage girls in math and on how the financial services industry can more successfully recruit the young women of today.

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