Ellie Kay is an Air Force spouse, mother of seven (and Blue Star mom of three) and the author of fifteen books, including, “Heroes at Home: Help and Hope for America’s Military Families,” which has reached 1 million military families. She has appeared on over 1400 media interviews, including regular appearances on Fox News, ABC News, CNBC, and CNN.

As “America’s Family Financial Expert” ® she to The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the financial advice website Mainstream, among other, and she was a charter columnist for Military Spouse Magazine. She has written regular columns for six national magazines and is a Money Clinic Advisor for Parents Magazine.

She has taken the nonprofit “Heroes at Home Financial Event” (sponsored by USAA) to all branches of the military in the United States, as well as in Europe and Asia. In these venues, she and her team educate military families regarding financial readiness issues.

Ellie graduated from Colorado Christian University with a degree in human resources management and is an Army Family Team Building master trainer. She is an Air Force Academy admissions liaison officer and a member of the 25th Congressional Military Academies Selection Committee. She has received the Dr. Mary Walker Award from the Army and the Marine Corps Spouse Medal. She is a preferred NSW Resiliency presenter with the Navy SEALs, and the Air Force awarded her an incentive flight in an F-15E Strike Eagle jet.

Ellie has spent much of her life connected to the military; her father retired from the Air Force as a chief master sergeant and her husband is a retired Air Force fighter pilot. Three of her seven children are in the military as well: one in the Marine Corps (U.S. Naval Academy 2011), one in the Air Force (U.S. Air Force Academy 2015), and one in the Army (U.S. Military Academy 2017).