April Walker serves AICPA and Tax Section members by developing and promoting timely and useful tax resources. She is the staff liaison for the Tax Practice Management Committee where she assists in creating tools for tax practitioners to manage their practices more efficiently. She is also the host of the Tax Section Odyssey podcast and the moderator for the popular Reimagining Your Tax Practice Series. Before joining the Association, she worked in public accounting for twenty years, specializing in individual tax, closely held businesses and their respective owners, and not-for-profit taxation. April practiced at Blackman & Sloop, CPAs, a local firm in Chapel Hill, NC, for the past 14 years, and before joining that firm, she worked for almost 5 years at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, LLP in Raleigh, NC. April is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the North Carolina Association of CPAs.

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