Malinda Knowles

As a Financial Consultant with AXA Advisors in New York City, Malinda Knowles aims to meet the needs of businesses and individuals as they relate to asset management, insurance, and annuities. Collaborating with her colleagues, she helps to develop tailored financial solutions. Malinda Knowles effectively markets the business and develops relationships with new clients through seminars, speaking engagements, telemarketing, and corporate sports outings.

Pursuing studies in Medford, Massachusetts, Ms. Knowles earned a B.A. in International Relations at Tufts University. As an undergraduate, she interned in Washington, D.C., with the Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA) and participated in a Dominican Republic student exchange program. Malinda Knowles also completed a summer internship through the Fund for American Studies and Georgetown University's Engalitcheff Institute on Comparative Political and Economic Systems. While living in the Spanish House at Tufts University, she took on a role as a Culture Manager and handled budget, maintenance scheduling, and events planning functions.

Reflecting a longstanding passion for art, Malinda Knowles served as a curator and Education Department Assistant at the Norton Art Gallery in West Palm Beach, Florida, in winter 2004. At the Norton Art Gallery, she served as a liaison with the public schools of Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties. She publicized exhibits for children and organized classroom art education materials. As an artist, Ms. Knowles also earned Tufts' Onyx Magazine Editor's Choice Award for Painting as an undergraduate.

In recent months, Ms. Knowles has become active as a fashion and arts blogger. She attends fashion industry events and documents striking trends, pieces, and personalities through her writing and photography. Malinda Knowles' goal is to become an artist whose oeuvre includes fashion lines inspired by her artwork.