Mary joined Hansen House Company in December 2021. She has degrees in Elementary Education from the University of Minnesota-Morris, and Accounting and Finance from the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Never one to believe that life is set in stone, making the career change from teaching children to helping her clients understand their taxes was one of the smartest moves she has ever made.
Mary moved to Minneapolis at the end of 2008 and worked at PwC at the beginning of her accounting career in their Private Client Services department as well as their State and Local Tax departments. From there she experienced sales tax at Target Corp where she gained a lot of knowledge to help her win obscure trivia games. She left Target to return to public accounting because she missed providing value to individual people. Mary and her husband moved back to Duluth in 2016, where she took a position with a small local firm in town. Focusing on tax for small businesses and their owners kept her plenty busy.
In her spare time, Mary enjoys reading, macrophotography and exploring the woods around her cabin WAY up north.