2023 Financial Services Workshop

Cal Christian, PhD, CPA
Cal Christian, Ph.D., CPA is Professor and Chair of the Accounting Department at East Carolina University (ECU) teaching Cost Accounting and Accounting for Decision Makers. He is a registered CPA in the states of North Carolina and Mississippi and has over 10 years of experience in both the public accounting profession with the former international accounting firm of Ernst & Whinney in Houston, TX, and Jackson, MS, and in industry with LDDS (the predecessor to WorldCom) and the Mississippi law firm of Holcomb, Dunbar. Cal has his PhD from Florida State University and his BAccy from the University of Mississippi.

Cal teaches continuing education classes for the North Carolina Association of CPAs (NCACPA), AICPA, CPA firms, and publicly traded companies—and has been recognized as a NCACPA Outstanding Conference Speaker. Cal has been named an ECU College of Business Fellow and he has been awarded the University of North Carolina Board of Governor’s Outstanding Teaching Award and The College of Business ECU Scholar/Teacher.

Cal also has several service responsibilities with ECU including serving as The Faculty Athletic Representative. Cal has also been involved within the CPA profession as a NCACPA Board Member and within the Greenville, NC Community as President of the Eastern NC Ronald McDonald House.

Kelly Reinsmith-Jones, PhD
Kelley Reinsmith-Jones, PH.D., MSW is an Associate Professor and the MSW Program Director for the School of Social Work. She has been at ECU since 2009, just after receiving her doctorate at Gonzaga University. As an educator she has taught courses that span across social work curricula and was awarded 5 BB&T leadership enhancement grants to develop and deliver 4 courses in leadership pertaining to ethical leadership, community leadership, global citizenship, and followership. Her areas of research interests include spirituality and spiritual transformation, social justice, bioethics and genomics, leadership development, and interprofessional practice. In addition to 2 book chapters, she and criminal justice colleagues were awarded a Crime and Public Health textbook contract. She has multiple articles written with social work and criminal justice practitioners. She has also presented nationally and internationally on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic medicine and gene editing as well as on self-leadership.

Her previous employment was within social services, spanning 20 years, including roles in juvenile justice, adolescent dual-diagnosis treatment, school-based social services, gerontology service planning and research, mental health administration, mental health residential and hospital services, and managed care. She also served as a private consultant, managing a federal HUD grant providing shelter and supportive services to migrant farm workers with HIV/AIDS within 16 Washington state counties.