If you don’t know Kelly Evans by name, you definitely may have seen her on campus in our Financial Aid Office. Kelly has worked in the Missouri State Financial Aid Office for eleven years now. As the Associate Director of the Financial Department, she has the opportunity to grow strong relationships with students and be a part of their journey from SOAR to graduation. While working with students, Kelly has been able to share her personal experience with students to help motivate them to work through financial troubles to balancing their social life with academics.
A Missouri State graduate, she has a passion for working with students, and she has made an impact on many of us at the University. When Kelly speaks to students and family members at SOAR, she encourages the students to only take out the loan amount they need, and if possible, start paying back the loans a little each month. She shares her personal of experience of taking out too loans when she was in college, but with diligence, paying her loans off.
Besides being a part of students’ growth, Kelly has enjoyed the amazing people she’s had the chance to work within her department and around the university. She, like many staff and faculty on campus, expressed how great it is to work on campus and make the university her second family.
While you may think that working in the Financial Aid may be boring, Kelly is far from it. She has been able to travel across the world including living in South Korea for over a year teaching English. Kelly has also made it her passion to visit every state. When she isn’t traveling, you can find her snuggled with her two dogs Maggie and Eleanor, watching Lord of the Rings and Supernatural.
Kelly is one of the many amazing people here at Missouri State that has dedicated her time and enthusiasm to the university, and we thank her!
~Trenell
(Trenell Morgan, the 2019-20 Family Assistant and a 2019 SOAR Leader, is a senior involved with Student Activities Council (After Hours Chair), University Ambassadors, and Xi Omicron Iota.)