When Lauren Culp became a credit union employee in 2012 when she was 20, it was just a job to pay the bills until she would decide which career path to take.
Then in 2016, she became one of those crashers, a group of young credit union professionals clad in T-shirts and jeans who deliberately disrupt cooperative events in positive and fun ways across the country to learn about the movement.
While learning is a constant process for any professional, Culp, who is the new manager of The Cooperative Trust, which boasts more than 1,500 crashers as its members, plans to substantially expand the influence and engagement of millennial crashers as the next generation of leaders to grow the credit union movement well into the future. This goal simply reflects the unofficial mantra of The Cooperative Trust: "We can't predict the future, but we can build it together."
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