Sonya Lutter
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- Sonya Britt-Lutter
- Sonya Britt
- Kansas State University (BS), 2003, (MS), 2005
- Texas Tech University (PhD), 2010
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| Thesis | Three Essays on Money Arguments Between Spouses (2010) |
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| Discipline | Personal financial planning |
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Sonya Lutter is an American financial planner, academic, author, and professor. She is the director of Financial Health and Wellness in the School of Financial Planning at the Texas Tech University College of Human Sciences.
Lutter grew up in the rural town of Kingman, Kansas, where her grandparents were custom harvesters of wheat, whose worked involved seasonal long-term travel in the Midwestern United States.[3][4] She said that her views on money were shaped by growing up in a very small agricultural town and an incident in which her sister stole money from her piggy bank.[3] She graduated from Kingman High School in 2000.[2]
While working as a summer camp counselor, Lutter said she befriended a deaf girl, which caused her to want to go to college to become a speech pathologist. She enrolled in college at Kansas State University (KSU) and declared speech pathology as her major. After job shadowing practitioners working in the field and taking some of the required science coursework, she withdrew from her classes and changed majors. She said she found financial planning because she liked numbers and education, and wanted to help people.[3][4] She was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in personal financial planning from KSU in 2003.[4]
After graduating, she said that she wanted to understand financial conflicts in family and couple dynamics, so she enrolled in a graduate education at KSU researching marriage and family therapy. She was awarded a Master of Science in 2003.[4]
She earned a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 2010 from Texas Tech University in personal financial planning.[5]
Texas Tech University School of Financial Planning named her a Distinguished Alumni in 2023.[6]