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lgbt ally lgbt ally by Robin Beaudoin photo by Greg Campbell KATHY FISH HOLISTIC MONEY MANAGEMENT FOR EVERY HOUSEHOLD Twenty-five years of practice as a CPA and financial planner, as well as personal interest in serving the LGBT community interface to make Kathy Fish a sort of financial superpower. Fish & Associates collaborates with LGBT family law specialist Susan McKenzie to keep abreast of changes or new rules regarding issues like marriage, retirement, custody, or advance directives. “We have lots of friends and clients who are gay or lesbian couples, so I’ve just been supportive of the causes of gay marriage. It’s just part of who I am. I learned from my parents not to be discriminatory,“ said Fish. Her interest in advocating for the LGBTQ community is backed by experience. Raised as one of eight siblings in an Irish Catholic family in Rochester, New York, she was taught tolerance from an early age by her broad-minded parents. In the early 1990s, she volunteered for Friends for Life (FFL) at local hospitals, and was appalled by the way her gay friends’ parents treated them, even disowning them, simply because they were gay. She struggled to find a way to help. “I remember when I first went on the board for Friends for Life and they asked why I joined. I said I felt like I needed to raise kids that were tolerant because you learn that from your family. “I feel like I’m an advocate for human and Civil Rights for all. We have a reputation at our firm that I learned of recently: (that we are) LGBT-friendly. I’ve not marketed myself that way, but it’s great that people feel comfortable that they won’t be judged at our firm. “My daughter is now on the board of Friends for Life, and an officer at Fish and Associates, and the tenet carries through the family.” Fish has involved her family in efforts to support the gay community, education, and sexual health. Her husband is a professor at Arkansas State, and one daughter who works with her in her firm is now designated as the ‘unmarried couples and special LGBT circumstances’ advocate. Her other daughter, while in high school, took an antibullying LGBT education proposal to Youth Legislature and successfully saw it passed. Fish and her husband hold a Cocktails for a Cause fundraiser at their home on the first of each month to benefit nonprofits FFL, Choices Memphis; Fish & Associates was a Magnum Gold sponsor for 2016 Condomonium. Fish and McKenzie are collaborating on an education series called “Wine and Words” to bring up some of the issues people need to consider. “(The series will be) mostly investment and estate planning issues in the LGBT community, and estate planning — or lack of — which is a problem for unmarried couples. “Everybody needs to plan for the future, whether you’re in a legal marriage or not. There are steps that have to be taken care of. “At some level, not everyone needs a comprehensive financial plan that entails weeks and weeks of work, but everybody needs planning. People can benefit from advice and a different perspective on how to meet their goals,“ Fish said. Page 18 / www.focusmidsouth.com / MAY+JUN 2016 / The Family Issue
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