Pamela S. Trafford

Pam Trafford is a senior lecturer II on the faculty in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She teaches a wide breadth of undergraduate and graduate accounting courses. She was one of Isenberg’s first faculty to teach in the online programs and continues to have a special interest in combining teaching and technology. She has served the school and the university in a variety of committee/advisory roles related to online teaching. 

Trafford is a certified public accountant (CPA) and a chartered global management accountant (CGMA).  She worked for audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG for 10 years, serving as a senior manager in the tax practice for four years. She served all the not-for-profit clients in her office and was a featured speaker about taxation issues for not-for-profit health care institutions. She belongs to many professional organizations and has served as a treasurer for a regional not-for-profit organization and as a member of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel.

Her recent awards and honors include the following:

• Nominated in 2022 and 2023 for the American Accounting Association/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize demonstration of superior teaching in accounting.

• Distinguished Teaching with Digital Technology Award- Graduate Programs. 2021-2022.

• Isenberg Teaching Fellow, 2020-2021 (Inaugural group)

• Lybrand Silver Medal for “Let me explain,” 2020.  Article published in 3/2020 in Strategic Finance. 

• University Innovation Fellow, 2016 (Inaugural group)