About Sammy the Saver
Sammy The Saver teaches children about financial literacy and financial literacy concepts through stories ranging from comic books to online narrated videos. Sammy the Saver revolves around 12-year-old Sammy and his friends Katrina and Carl. Sammy’s superpower is his ability to save people from making costly financial mistakes by educating them on how to make smarter decisions with their money.
Characters
Sammy
Sammy is the main character. He’s a smart kid who’s interested in building his own business empire. He is frugal and knows a lot about financial literacy and enjoys helping others. Sammy is not easily swayed into peer pressure and likes to stick to the goals and plans he sets. When he senses someone in danger of making a bad financial decision, he transforms into his alter-ego Sammy the Saver and steps in to save the day and teach a lesson.
Katrina
Katrina is usually the voice of reason and helps Sammy when he gets into sticky situations. Her family doesn’t have a lot of money, but she’s very entrepreneurial and runs her own profitable fashion-centric streaming channel. She thinks both Sammy and Carl are dorks who would be lost without her.
Cash Money Carl
Carl aka Cash Money Carl is flashy and has expensive tendencies – he also has a crush on Katrina and is often trying to impress her. His parents have that “new money”, and he often falls victim to peer pressure to be the flashiest, most well-liked, and popular person in school. He’s known to make a lighthearted joke or two at Sammy’s expense, but never takes things too far. Sammy and Katrina often intervene to help Carl when he gets into financial trouble.
The Spendthrift
Spendthrifts exist all throughout the world of Sammy The Saver and they are his arch enemy. The Spendthrift is that voice in your head that encourages you to make bad financial decisions. Anyone can catch a spendthrift and it’s usually clear when someone has been possessed by a spendthrift by the poor financial decisions they make. Being possessed by a spendthrift for too long can lead to generational curses.
The Team
Carl E. Brown, Jr.
Carl Brown is the executive director of DCSBDC and the visionary behind Sammy The Saver. He is devoted making resources available that enable children and their families attain financial literacy.
CreativeJunkFood
CreativeJunkFood is DC-based creative studio founded by Candice Taylor and Nabi Bilal. In addition to illustration, their work includes animation & film, branding & design, and public art. Their work for Sammy The Saver includes concept, writing, creative direction, art direction, and more.
Stacey Palmer
Stacey Palmer is a marketing and events professional working out of the DC area. She is the founder Executive Virtual Assistant and oversees marketing for Sammy The Saver
April Williams
April Williams is the founder of Kennedy Consulting. Her focus is on consulting and making inclusive space for people and businesses.
Jordan Purnell Jackson
Jordan Purnell Jackson is the illustrator of Sammy The Saver vs. The Spendthrift. He is a talented illustrator working out of Baltimore.
Richard Call
Richard Call is a writer based in Baltimore. He is a co-writer of Sammy The Saver vs The Spendthrift and assists with writing other Sammy The Saver stories.
Drake Holmes
Drake Holmes is an illustrator and MFA student at Howard University. His work includes creating poster art for the Sammy The Saver franchise. He is an avid anime fan.
Jess Havok
Jess Havok is an artist and comic book letterer. She is responsible for lettering “Sammy The Saver vs. The Spendthrift”
Partners
Sammy The Saver was made in collaboration with Howard University, DCSBDC, and CreativeJunkFood, LLC
About District of Columbia Small Business Development Center (DCSBDC)
The District of Columbia SBDC network is the only Districtwide, nationally accredited program that provides high quality one-on-one consulting, training and information resources to empower new and existing businesses. DC SBDC consultants work with entrepreneurs in confidential, individualized sessions to help them with a range of business issues including testing a new business proposition, shaping a business plan, investigating funding opportunities, and much more. DCSBDC is a partnership program nationally accredited by the Association of America’s SBDCs and funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration, Howard University serving as the network’s headquarters..
About CreativeJunkFood
CreativeJunkFood, LLC is a multimedia creative studio based in Washington D.C. that specializes in animation and video, public art and installations, branding, and creative direction.
About Howard University
Founded in 1867, Howard University is a private research university comprised of 14 schools and colleges.