Team TaxMama®
All of your instructors are Enrolled Agents who’ve passed the EA Exam – they know what you’re going through. All are degreed, some have Master’s Degrees, and lots of other experience and training. All our instructors have had teaching or training experience. We’ve all been practicing longer than we’d care to admit.
Eva Rosenberg, EA
Eva revived and restructured the EA Exam Review course at UCLA Extension, then taught it through Eva’s Tax Class for several years.
Eva earned an BA in accounting and MBA in International Business, Eva was trained in national and (then) Big-8 CPA firms, and has been in private practice for decades.
Publisher of one of the most popular and accessible tax websites – TaxMama.com – Eva and Team TaxMama® have answered thousands of questions for taxpayers over the years – as a free community service.
Eva has been trouble-shooting businesses and representing taxpayers at audits and with collections issues for decades. Eva is the go-to girl for tax pros who can’t resolve audit or collections problems. She usually sees a quick and equitable solution.
Author of best-selling books and hundreds of articles, Eva wrote a nationally syndicated tax column for Dow Jones’ MarketWatch for nearly 15 years. You can find her current articles all over the WWW.
Susan Holtgrefe, EA
Susan is a TaxMama® Graduate, VITA instructor/coordinator, Certifying Acceptance Agent, owner of Year-Round Mobile Tax Service, LLC.
Susan is a former Captain for the U.S. Air Force, and a University of Oklahoma graduate with a B.S. in Meteorology.
More importantly, Susan is a wife and a ‘stay at home’ mom who is constantly on the go for her four redheaded children.
A true tax nerd; Susan discovered she enjoyed doing taxes in high school when she was required to file the 1040 long form because of her Alaska Permanent Fund income.
Years later, after her youngest daughter started kindergarten, Susan volunteered for to work with VITA. Now she is helping others to pass the difficult Special Enrollment Exams, training VITA volunteers to gain their certification, helping taxpayers file their tax returns at VITA locations, and growing her own tax business.
Currently she is pursuing the NAEA’s National Tax Practice Institute (NTPI) Fellow program.
Susan resides in northwest Pennsylvania and holds an Orange Belt in Combat Hapkido.
LG Brooks
EA, CTRS
LG is a man of many dimensions
– a top tax authority, a walking encyclopedia of the Internal Review Code and Manual, a composer, musician, singer and a loving family man.
And more than that – he is a favorite tax instructor nationwide
Larry Pon
CPA, EA
LAWRENCE K.Y. PON is a Certified Public Accountant, Personal Financial Specialist, Certified Financial Planner, Enrolled Agent, United States Tax Court Practitioner, and Accredited Estate Planner in Redwood Shores, CA.
Mr. Pon has been in practice since 1986 and is a popular speaker, nationwide, on tax planning and financial planning topics to tax professionals and financial advisors.
Mr. Pon is teaching Accounting 181 (Individual Income Tax with Tax Software) at the College of San Mateo.
Mr. Pon received his BS in Business Administration with emphases in Accounting and Finance from the University of California, Berkeley and MS in Taxation from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
Stephanie Battaglia
MBA, EA
Stephanie graduated from our class and showed an impressive skill in mentoring her study buddy team to pass the exam.
She has been working with Intuit & Turbo Tax Live as a tax expert and manager.
With an impressive background in Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) and Coldwell Banker Real Estate, Susan has built successful, award-winning teams.
She has used her skills to build her own tax practice
Note: We reserve the right to add or change instructors as needed to accommodate schedules and subjects.