Primary Job Title Professor Primary Organization DePaul University
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Regions Greater Chicago Area, Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Female
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Kelly Richmond Pope, Ph.D., CPA is an expert in the field of white-collar crime. Dr. Pope is an Associate Professor in the School of Accountancy and Management Information Systems at DePaul University, as well as, the founder of Helios Digital Learning, Inc., an education media company that offers a suite of educational, consulting and training
products and services designed to help organizations understand, identify and prevent fraud.
Dr. Pope's passion for white-collar crime extends far beyond the classroom and office. She is a co-author of the upcoming book, The A.B.C.'s of Behavioral Forensics: Using Psychology to Prevent, Detect and Deter Fraud. She is a contributing writer for Forbes.com and The Daily Beast Newsweek. She also is the creator and executive producer of the award winning educational white-collar crime documentary Crossing the Line: Ordinary People Committing Extraordinary Crime, which was a 2012 recipient of the American Accounting Association Ethics Committee's Teaching Award and a recipient of the 2012 Mark Chain/FSA Teaching Innovation Award sponsored by the AICPA.
She is a proud board member of the Young Women's Leadership Charter School, the only all-girls charter school within Chicago Public Schools, and the Chicago-based Lynn Sage Cancer Research Foundation, one of the nation's leading breast cancer research and education charities . Additionally, she was recently elected to the AICPA Governing Council for a 3-year term.
She resides in the Hyde Park community in Chicago with her husband, Lorence, and her two children Evan and Vivien. She loves running in half marathons, doing crossfit and she is a licensed piloxing instructor.
