Volunteer Financial Mentor

Elizabeth Gilmore

Passionate About...
Budgeting• Retirement Plans (Traditional)• Taxes

I’m a candidate for CFP (R) certification. With a background in mathematics and over a decade working in healthcare data analysis and data science, I want to take my knowledge of numbers and do something that will directly improve people’s lives. Your 20s and 30s can be such a powerful time in your financial life, and if you get yourself on a solid foundation, you can have compound returns working for you.

I live in the Washington DC area with my husband, four sons, and two rescue dogs. I spend my mornings rowing on the Anacostia River and can often be found in the Shenandoah mountains or Monongahela National Forest.

Get to Know Elizabeth

What is a quote you like to live by? “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Teddy Roosevelt

What is something unique you'd like us to know about you? I hold a number of world records in indoor rowing and rowed in a women's masters 8+ boat that set a course record at Head of the Charles. I found rowing at the age of 37 as I was recovering from a running injury, and my path has really underscored that it's never too late to explore new things.