Well known in California tax practice circles, Kathleen Wright is a CPA and lawyer, serving as a professor in the Graduate Tax program at California State University/Fullerton. She has a private tax practice in the San Francisco area focusing on personal and small business tax planning, dealing primarily with California State income tax issues.

Ms. Wright also has extensive experience in taxation of multinational corporations and tax issues of corporations involved in the high-tech and banking industries. She has more than 15 years of experience in public accounting and with Citicorp in New York, and continues to provide consulting services to the banking industry. She also lectures frequently on various tax issues for the Foundation for Continuing Education of the California Society of CPAs, and she serves on the Executive Advisory Board of the California Franchise Tax Board.

Ms. Wright is a prolific author, having written or contributed to numerous books and articles. She earned her LL.M. in taxation at Golden Gate University Law School, her J.D. from Fordham Law School, her M.B.A. in taxation from New York University, and her B.S. from Florida State University.