Mellody Hobson: Rising to the Top

On the way from her sometimes tough childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her role as co-CEO of the first and largest Black-owned asset management firm in the country, Mellody Hobson has been clear about one thing. Her passions about financial literacy and leaving the world a better place have endured because of her Chicago roots and the many challenges she's overcome, not in spite of them. A childhood she has described as "youngest of six kids, single mom, evicted a lot, phone disconnected, cars repossessed, you name it" made her desperate to understand money. Today Hobson says that teaching financial literacy is as important as teaching reading and writing.