Alumni Spotlight – Rachael Gerber

For our first Alumni Spotlight of the spring semester, we are featuring Rachael Gerber! She served as a Resident Assistant at Kerr Hall for 2 years and graduated with her Bachelor’s in Accounting in 2013. She also holds her Master’s in Accounting and joined us for a Housing Alumni Dinner this past November!

Being a part of Housing was a huge game changer for me. I learned to be comfortable with who I was, and how to communicate my own beliefs while being able to show others I was able to listen and understand theirs. For the “real world”, I learned the art of communication, understanding of how to approach wide variety of people, expanded my creativity skills, and got great interview skills (thank you for all those crazy questions, West).

After leaving housing, I worked as a lifeguard and later as a head lifeguard at the Rec Center. I also interned at two accounting firms in Dallas during college. I am now a full-time Staff at Montgomery Coscia Greilich, LLP, where communication skills, being able to mitigate awkward situations, good organization skills and multi-tasking are essential to every day.

I was a member of RLAC and represented my cluster on the Ethics & Concerns Committee during my last semester.  I really enjoyed participating in the meetings and being a representative for my cluster on the ECC. It helped prepare me to be president of Beta Alpha Psi, a student accounting organization, when I was in graduate school. Also, I had the honor of being the first RA to lead the REAL Business Community. I’m so proud to see some of my former residents now being involved in the business department.

I was heavily involved in Beta Alpha Psi as a member, candidate director, and eventual president. While president, I was a guest at UNT Accounting Advisory Board meetings and able to participate in key discussions for the department’s future.

By far some of my favorite memories are from dinners with my Kerr family. Training with everyone was always a blast. Small programs with my girls. Big programs with the hall. Snowpocalypse. Basketball games with the family. Homecoming. All of these bring smiles to my face.

I am working as a full-time tax associate at Montgomery Coscia Greilich, LLP in Plano and am almost a fully certified CPA. I still happily live in little d and love getting together with my Kerrific family on a regular basis.

Rachael joined us back at Kerr Hall in November for one of our Housing Alumni Dinners, and we had a great time hearing about her experiences as an RA and how it has impacted her life.

Rachael got to see the Kerr Family Tree of Mentors and Mentees over the past few years that was put together by a recent Kerr RA!

She even got to meet some of the KERR-ent staff and helped them put together a poster for an upcoming program.

Thank you so much to Rachael for your time, service and continuing dedication to UNT Housing. We are so happy to have you as an alumna of our department!