Purple America is a national initiative of Values-in-Action Foundation to re-focus the American conversation to a civil, productive and respectful dialogue around our American shared values.
Values-in-Action Foundation empowers students and adults to build communities of kindness, caring and respect through programs that teach, promote, and provide skills and tools to enable individuals to make positive values-based decisions every day. To learn more about Project Love, our school-based, character-development initiative of Values-in-Action Foundation, visit www.viafdn.org


Dr. Thomas Harvey, Associate Professor of Economics and Finance, joined the Ashland University faculty in 1999. He is founder of, and advisor to, the Eagle Investment Group, a student-managed investment group, and founding director of the Institute for Contemporary Financial Studies. His areas of expertise include corporate finance, investment theory and strategy, financial risk, portfolio construction and management, Series 7 licensure, money and banking, security analysis, international finance and business policy and strategy. He received his Doctor of Business Administration in Management and Labor Relations from Cleveland State University, his Master of Business Administration in Banking and Finance from Case Western University and Bachelor of Arts in English from Hillsdale College.
Dr. Thomas Harvey
Associate Professor of Economics and Finance, Ashland University
