Kelly Richmond Pope is an accounting professor turned documentary filmmaker who teaches accounting through the lens of fraud and film. In her talk, “Why do we hate whistleblowers?” she touches on the lessons learned from whistleblowers in some of the nation’s most highprofile cases and make the argument for why we need more whistleblowers.

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. Her first documentary, “Crossing the Line: Ordinary People Committing Extraordinary Crime,” has won numerous educational awards. Her current documentary, “All the Queen’s Horses,” which chronicles the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history will be released in 2017. In addition to her academic publications, she enjoys writing on her Forbes.com blog “Higher Learning,” and for The Daily Beast, The Washington Post and PBS’ “Need to Know.”

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