kscott26@nul.org
Speaker Bio
Kiara Scott is the Founder and CEO of Free Money Meister, a scholarship platform that helps students find, prioritize, and apply for scholarships with less overwhelm and greater success. Where outdated scholarship databases bury students in generic listings, Free Money Meister does the digging and surfaces high-quality, often overlooked opportunities — from major national awards to small local ones — ranked by real impact for each student's unique profile.
Kiara built the platform after seeing talented students miss out on funding not for lack of merit, but because of poor information, disorganized processes, and application fatigue. Her work makes scholarship access clearer, smarter, and more equitable, so students can cut down on debt and focus on graduating rather than searching endlessly for aid.
She is passionate about education access, financial empowerment, and building technology that replaces confusion with clarity.