As a California CPA and attorney, Annette Nellen is a professor and Program Director of the Master of Science in Taxation program at San José State University. She’s active in the tax sections of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), American Bar Association (ABA), and the California Lawyers Association, and frequently speaks and writes on tax policy and reform, high tech tax matters, accounting methods, and taxation of cryptocurrency. She is co-author and co-editor of four tax textbooks from Cengage (Southwestern Federal Taxation series).  She has previously worked at the Internal Revenue Service and at Ernst & Young. Annette has a BS in Accounting from CSU, Northridge, an MBA from Pepperdine, and a JD from Loyola Law School.