Smart Spending: Using Lease-to-Own Wisely for College Costs

Kumba McGill

Relationship Manager at Ascent Funding

Kumba is a higher education professional with over five years of experience in corporate relations, program management, and stakeholder engagement. She cultivates strategic partnerships with colleges and universities to expand student access to private loans and scholarship resources. Kumba is passionate about supporting learners at every stage—from undergraduate to graduate and certificate programs—by connecting them with Ascent's innovative financial solutions that make education more accessible and affordable.

Jennifer Cohn Kull

Head of Investor Relations at Katapult

Jennifer Cohn Kull has nearly 30 years of Wall Street, finance and communications experience. Over the past 25 years she has amassed expertise in building strategic communications programs as an agency advisor, in-house investor relations officer, chief communications officer and finance executive. She has been the head of investor relations at Katapult since July 2023. Katapult is a publicly traded financial technology company that offers innovative lease-to-own products to underserved nonprime consumers. In this role, she leads all Wall Street communication and marketing efforts as well as public and media relations.

Prior to joining Katapult, Jennifer led investor, public and corporate communications at Groupon, Dollar General and Etsy and served as a managing director at Joele Frank and other boutique communications agencies. She began her Wall Street career with roles in institutional equity and fixed income sales at Merrill Lynch and Griffin Kubik Stephens & Thompson.