Lou Carlozo

As Qwoted’s first Editor in Chief, Lou oversees the standards committee, leads community-building efforts within journalism education, and acts as a resource to writers. Lou most recently served as managing editor at Government CIO. Just prior, he worked at the nation’s largest banking non-profit, Bank Administration Institute (BAI). Lou also created, engineered, and hosts the BAI Banking Strategies podcast, which paved the way to his current financial services podcast, “Bankadelic.” Lou’s resume also includes six years at U.S. News & World Report and serving as Managing Editor at AOL. In 16 years at the Chicago Tribune, Lou was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. His multimedia credits include BBC Radio commentator (“Up All Night”) and appearances on several Discovery true-crime documentaries. Lou’s work has also appeared in Forbes, the Los Angeles Times, Yahoo Finance, MSN, the Christian Science Monitor, Reuters, and several other news outlets across the world. His journalism honors include a shared Polk Award, a Chicago Tribune Innovator Award, the Bob Briner Impact Award, and more. As an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago, he led an eight-year rebuild of the Loyola Phoenix, culminating in an award for Best College Weekly Newspaper in the Nation from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Caleb Silver

Caleb Silver is the Editor-in-chief of Investopedia. He serves on the Board of Governors and Executive Committee for the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW). Caleb’s career in business news began at Bloomberg, where he worked as a senior television producer. Caleb then joined CNN, serving as a Senior Producer for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, as well as the Executive Producer of CNNMoney.com. He then returned to CNN as the Director of US business news before leaving in 2014 to form Frog Pond Productions, a digital production and consulting company. Caleb joined Investopedia in January 2016 as the VP of Content, and is frequently featured as a markets, economic and consumer trends expert on NBC, MSNBC, ABC Radio, Marketplace Radio and Cheddar TV, in addition to markets commentary in his daily newsletters. His awards include a Peabody, EPPY, SABEW Best in Business, and two Emmy nominations.

Paulina Likos

Paulina Likos is an investing reporter with U.S. News & World Report covering the stock market, investing strategies, portfolio management and real estate investing. She enjoys writing about the latest market trends and millennial investing behaviors. Prior to her current role, Paulina was a risk manager at Fannie Mae handling credit risk management responsibilities in Single-Family business, actively engaging with lenders on the front-line. Paulina is a Pennsylvania native who attended Villanova University where she studied political science, communication studies and business management.

Niraj Shah

Niraj Shah is the Markets Editor at Bloomberg Quint, India’s first digital live streaming business news service. Niraj heads the Markets band, and leads the editorial coverage of all things equities at BloombergQuint. He anchors the daily live show, Talking Point, which has gained prominence for serious conversation around markets and industry. Niraj also hosts the coveted investing show ‘Alpha Moguls’, regarded by many as one of the finest investing conversation shows in the country. Prior to Bloomberg Quint, Shah was a part of the team that set up ET Now, the business news channel of The Times Group in India. Niraj is also the founding member of Soch, a not-for-profit organization aimed at distributing transformational ideas for changing India. He has been associated with pro-bono organizations like the Forum of Young Activists in Mumbai, as well as Anjeze, a trust helping cancer patients in the city of Mumbai.

Larry Edelman

Larry Edelman is a financial columnist and associate editor of The Boston Globe. Over the course of two stints (1989-1999 and 2015-present), he has also worked as a tech reporter, the business editor, and deputy managing editor for news. Before returning to the Globe, Larry was a senior deputy editor at The Wall Street Journal, where he was responsible for real-time coverage of markets and finance, and assisted with planning and editing of the Money & Investing section. Prior to the Journal, he spent 10 years at Bloomberg News as investing team leader, senior enterprise editor, and managing editor for investing and real estate. From 1999 to 2003, Larry got some real- world experience as vice president of investor relations at John Hancock Financial Services, where he worked on the company’s initial public offering, wrote earnings releases and investor presentations, and helped manage relationships with analysts and investors.

Kalilah Reynolds

Kalilah Reynolds is an award-winning journalist covering business and finance in Jamaica. She received the Press Association of Jamaica Award for Business and Finance three years in a row. Reynolds has hosted the number-one rated news and current affairs morning radio show from 2014-2020. In October 2019, Reynolds launched Taking Stock with Kalilah Reynolds with a mission to make business and finance easy to understand. In 2020, Reynolds left Nationwide News Network to commit to the launch of her website, kalilahreynolds.com. Reynolds has a Masters degree in Communications Studies from the University of the West Indies, and a B.A. in Journalism from Fordham University in New York City, both with distinction.

Janet Guyon

An internationally recognized editor, Janet is best known for her ability to merge the worlds of digital media and traditional journalism. Formerly editor-in-chief of Jim Cramer’s TheStreet.com, Janet Guyon spent the bulk of her career at The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg, where she ran Bloomberg.com as its general manager. She has run digital operations at Dow Jones and IAC, was technology editor at Quartz and served as a senior editor at Documentedny.com. She most recently graduated magna cum laude from New York Law School, where she was a Global Law Fellow and member of the Dean’s Leadership Council.

Brittany Ghiroli

Ghiroli served as an MLB reporter for ten years, where her coverage of the Tampa Bay Rays was featured in the American League Championship Series program. She spent eight game seasons as the Orioles beat reporter before joining The Athletic in November of 2018. Ghiroli currently covers the Washington D.C. Nationals team and breaking Major League Baseball news, while hosting The Athletic’s MLB podcast Rates and Barrels. Ghiroli is also an Insider reporter for MLB Network and has appeared live and in pre-taped segments on NBC Sports, FOX, ESPN’s SportsCenter, and Outside the Lines. She was named Baltimore Magazine’s “Best Reporter” in 2014 and D.C. Sportswriter of the Year in 2019.

Rachele Kanigel

Rachele Kanigel is a professor and chair of the Journalism Department at San Francisco State University. She was a daily newspaper reporter for 15 years, mostly covering health and medicine for The News & Observer in Raleigh, NC, The Oakland Tribune, and other newspapers, and has written for magazines, including TIME, U.S. News & World Report, San Francisco, Health and Prevention. She is the editor of The Diversity Style Guide, a free website that helps people write with accuracy, authority and sensitivity about a diverse world, and author/editor of a companion book by the same name. She consults with media organizations and trains media professionals in inclusive content. She is also the author of The Student Newspaper Survival Guide and is past president of College Media Association.

Kevin Lerner

Kevin Lerner is a historian of American journalism, Assistant Professor of Communication/Journalism at Marist College, and Editor of the Journal of Magazine Media. He edited the website and a print department of Architectural Record magazine, where his team won a National Magazine award. He has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nieman Lab, and several other publications. Lerner earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University, a master’s in journalism from Columbia University, and a B.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Pennsylvania. Lerner studies journalism as an intellectual process, and his book, Provoking the Press: (MORE) Magazine and the Crisis of Confidence in American Journalism tells the story of a journalism review that challenged the journalistic tenets of objectivity in the 1970s. He’s currently working on a second book.

Valerie Bolden-Barrett

Valerie Bolden-Barrett has 20 years of writing experience across a vast number of mediums. She served as Editor of national publications for Simon & Schuster, where she wrote editorial features and articles on innovative business trends. Bolden-Barrett then worked at Aspen Publishers as a lead writer for national business publications and participated in an international Journalists’ Round Table. She has written 5,000+ articles for HR Dive, an Industry Dive publication, covering best business practices, HR functions, workplace trends, employment law and job economy. She now manages a writing and communications contracting service where she’s able to use her variety of writing skills to compose case studies, white papers, articles, press releases, and more. Bolden-Barrett’s work has also been published on yourbusness.azcentral.com, The Houston Chronicle, and businesswatchnetwork.com.

Barbara Friedberg

Barbara A. Friedberg, MBA, MS is an investment and finance writer who draws from her experience as a former investment portfolio manager and expert investor. Her authored works include Personal Finance; An Encyclopedia of Modern Money Management, Invest and Beat the Pros-Create and Manage a Winning Investment Portfolio and How to Get Rich; Without Winning the Lottery. Friedberg’s online writing portfolio features bylines in publications including U.S. News and World Report, Investopedia, Investor Place, GoBankingRates, Seeking Alpha, and The Balance. Her work has been syndicated and cited at CNN.Money, Yahoo!Finance, Equities.com, CNBC, Nasdaq, and MarketWatch, among several others. Friedberg owns and operates two investment educational websites, Robo-Advisor Pros and Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance. A complete list of her published work can be viewed here.

Evan Dammarell

Evan Dammarell is an experienced media professional who has covered the Cleveland Cavaliers and the NBA as a whole for the last several years. Currently serving as a contributor at Forbes and an editor for SB Nation’s Fear the Sword, Evan has worked with several other publications covering the NBA, such as Hashtag Basketball, ClutchPoints, and FanSided. Evan also serves as a co-host and producer for Locked on Cavs, part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Born, raised, and based in Cleveland, the Cavaliers and sports journalism have been both his area of expertise and his passion for the better part of his life.

Gabrielle Olya

Gabrielle Olya is a lead writer at GOBankingRates, where she covers a variety of financial topics including retirement planning, investing, careers and real estate. Previously, she was a staff writer-reporter for People Magazine and People.com. Her work has also appeared on E! Online, Us Weekly, Patch, Sweety High and Discover Los Angeles. Gabrielle has an MA in journalism from the University of Southern California and BA in communication from the University of Pennsylvania.

David Ryfe

David Ryfe is Director of and Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. In the past, he has conducted research in the areas of political communication, presidential communication and public deliberation. He has written Can Journalism Survive? (Polity, 2012), an ethnographic investigation of how American newspaper newsrooms have adjusted to the disruption taking place in their profession. More recently, he has published Journalism and the Public (Polity, 2017), an exploration of how various configurations of public life shape the form and meaning of journalism. His current research project, News, Facts, and Truth, traces the history of the relationship between news and truth, from the 17th century to the present.

Elizabeth Yuko

Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D., is a bioethicist and journalist, as well as an adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for print and online publications including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, CNN, CityLab, Architectural Digest, Teen Vogue, Vulture and Reader’s Digest.

Jeffrey Steele

​Jeffrey Steele is a freelance journalist with more than 30 years of experience and over 4,000 bylined articles for many publications. Steele began covering real estate in 1991 for the Chicago Tribune and would go on to compose hundreds of articles for each of the Tribune’s real estate sections. ​Steele writes on a variety of topics including personal finance, wealth management, retirement planning, senior issues, and supply chain and inventory management.​ ​He​ has bylines in Forbes, Bankrate, the Los Angeles Times, Barron’s, and ​dozens of other publications.

Kristine Gill

Kristine Gill is a recovering newspaper journalist working in media relations for a Florida law enforcement agency. Her journalism experience includes various freelance gigs covering personal finance, home trends and workplace issues for Real Simple, Realtor.com and Fortune. She also worked as a Breaking news reporter for Naples Daily News covering higher education, the city of Naples, breaking news, crime and general features. Kristine pens a biweekly newsletter called On The Record, featuring Q&As with reporters who explain how they got their stories. She is also the founder of the Naples Writers’ Workshop, a community of writers in Southwest Florida working to hone their fiction skills.

Dana Blankenhorn

Dana Blankenhorn has been a working business journalist since 1978, when he graduated from Northwestern’s Medill School. He has been working as a freelancer since 1983 and covers business and technology. Dana has written several books on technology and covered a wide range of beats including education, e-commerce, blockchain, and renewable energy. His work has appeared in publications including the Chicago Tribune, Interactive Age, InvestorPlace, TheStreet.com and Yahoo Finance.

Casey O’Brien

Casey O’Brien is an award-winning journalist with a focus on justice, equity, and sustainability. Based in Oakland, California, she has been published by both regional and national outlets including the Week, Salon, The Revelator, Sierra Magazine, and Prism/the Daily Kos.  More information about Casey is available on her website and you can also follow her on Twitter.

Monica Chin

Monica Chin has been working as a journalist since 2017, when she graduated from Brown University with a degree in literary arts. She has covered many areas of consumer technology including smart home, artificial intelligence, wearables, phones, and laptops. Her work has appeared in publications including Marketwatch, Mashable, Tom’s Guide, Business Insider, and the New York Post. Currently, she reviews laptops and covers education tech for The Verge.

Joanne Y. Cleaver

Communication and content consultant Joanne Cleaver was a financial journalist for 25 years, including 4 1/2 years as deputy business/real estate editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and two years as a senior content producer for Tribune Digital. She is a widely published writer and author of seven books, most recently, The Career Lattice (McGraw Professional, 2012). She leads strategic communication firm Wilson-Taylor Associates, Inc., which designs and manages content, editorial and research projects for all media and equips clients with media skills and strategic messaging. Cleaver also designed the MOVE Project, a research and advocacy platform that measures and supports the advancement of women. Follow Joanne on twitter at @jycleaver.

Jennifer Billock

Jennifer Billock is an award-winning writer, bestselling author, editor and owner of the boutique editorial firm Jennifer Billock Creative Services. She has worked with businesses and publishers including the Smithsonian, The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Disney Books, The Atlantic, Kraft Foods, Midwest Living, Arcadia Publishing and the MSU Press. She also co-hosts the Macabre Traveler podcast and edits the Kitchen Witch Newsletter. She is currently dreaming of an around-the-world trip with her Boston terrier. Check out her website at www.jenniferbillock.com and follow her on Twitter @jenniferbillock.

Jenny Powers

Jenny Powers is a working freelance journalist who spends most days researching fascinating professionals in out-of-the-box careers to find out what their jobs are really like behind the scenes for Business Insider’s Job Diaries column.

She also covers a variety of topics including small business, pop culture, sex, parenting, travel, and religion. Her work has appeared in Time Inc., The Forward, The New York Post, Vice, Refinery29 and Roadtrippers.

Powers has a B.A. in Journalism from New York University.

You can follow her work at  https://www.clippings.me/jpowers.

Mike De Socio

Mike De Socio is a freelance journalist who tells stories about cities, climate change, and the LGBTQ+ community. His path in journalism has taken him through almost every part of the newsroom. He’s worked as a photographer at the Asbury Park Press, crafted code and multimedia at NPR’s On Point, and has worked as an editor and enterprise reporter at the Albany Business Review.

Now as a freelance journalist, he leans into his range of skills to provide well-written, beautifully photographed stories that make an impact. Mike’s work has been published in Bloomberg, The Guardian, Fortune, The Christian Science Monitor, Apartment Therapy, HuffPost, DigBoston, Bicycling Magazine, and beyond. He’s also received awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, and Boston University.

Debra Kamin

Debra Kamin is a freelance journalist. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times, and her work also frequently appears in The Wall Street Journal, Conde Nast Traveler and other top publications. She spent nearly a decade living in Tel Aviv and reporting on issues across the Middle East, and now lives in Southern California with her husband and twin daughters.

Sofia Quaglia

Sofia Quaglia is a freelance science journalist working between the US, the UK and Italy. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, National Geographic, Wired, Gizmodo, Grist, Earther, and more, and she regularly contributes to Inverse.com and VeryWell Health. In Italy, she is presenter and producer for the series Crossroads for Enrico Mentana’s online newspaper Open. She’s a City University of London and Columbia University alum.

Pooja Shah

Pooja Shah is an attorney at a global law firm and an award-winning freelance writer based in New York City. She received the 2021 AAN Award for Best Columnist. Her work has appeared in Vogue India, StyleCaster, InStyle, Thrillist, PopSugar, and more. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Philosophy from Boston College and a Juris Doctorate from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Paul Gillin

Paul Gillin is an independent writer, speaker and journalist who specializes in enterprise technology topics. He was founding editor-in-chief of B2B technology publisher TechTarget, where he grew the editorial staff from two to more than 70 journalists over five years. Previously, he was editor-in-chief and executive editor of the technology weekly Computerworld for 15 years. Paul was one of the first journalists to understand the enormous impact that social media would have on business and culture, a phenomenon he documented in his 2007 best-selling book, The New Influencers. He spent 10 years advising companies such as Disney, Procter & Gamble, IBM and Corning about how to use social media to connect with customers. Since 2014 Paul has served as Enterprise Editor of the tech news site SiliconAngle, where he specializes in cloud computing and data analytics. Paul is a Senior Research Fellow at the Conference Board’s Marketing & Communications Center. His website is gillin.com.

Amanda Florian

Amanda Florian is an American journalist and media personality based between the U.S. and China. Her specialties include TikTok, internet culture, and China’s new media scene. Florian’s work has appeared in CNN, NBC, USA Today, The Charlotte Observer, and more.

Kelsey Weekman

Kelsey is a reporter covering digital culture and Gen Z for In The Know by Yahoo. She writes the newsletter OK Zoomer, a weekly dispatch on the intersection of the internet and what the kids are up to these days. Kelsey has worked as a writer and editor at Billboard, CBS News, Mashable and more. She is based in New York City and has a BA in journalism from the University of North Carolina.

Abrar Al-Heeti

Abrar Al-Heeti is a reporter at CNET covering the intersection of technology and culture, with a particular interest in social media trends, entertainment and pop culture. She also writes about digital accessibility and diversity & inclusion initiatives in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, in addition to general tech and culture news stories. She graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was named a Tech Media Trailblazer by the Consumer Technology Association in 2019 and won a Telly award for CNET’s video: Kelly Slater creates the perfect wave in the middle of nowhere. She’s based in San Francisco.

Margie Zable Fisher

Margie writes for companies, organizations, and media outlets, including the New York Times, Parade.com, Woman’s World, Business Insider, NextAvenue.org, Livestrong.com, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Thryv, ShipStation.com, and many more. While she has written on many topics, she specializes in writing about business, health, technology, retirement, lifestyle, and fitness. When not researching the newest study or interviewing the perfect source, she enjoys training for her next triathlon, reading a thriller, or watching the latest British crime show. Find her at https://margiezfisher.com/.

Barbara Zito

Barbara Bellesi Zito is a freelance writer from Staten Island, NY. She covers real estate, home improvement trends, and other lifestyle topics for various digital publications including Apartment Therapy, Better Homes & Gardens, Real Simple, Taste of Home, TODAY, and more. Barbara earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and her BA in English and Theatre from Wagner College. Her debut novel, LUCKY STIFF, is due out in January 2023. Follow her on social at @BarbTheWriter. www.barbthewriter.com

Yelena Dzhanova

Yelena Dzhanova is a New York-based reporter covering gender-based violence and criminal justice at Insider. Previously, she covered politics at CNBC. She holds a Master of Arts in women’s and gender studies from the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Bachelor of Arts in English, political science, and journalism from Baruch College. She is a member of the YJC Coalition, an organization that seeks to expand journalism opportunities and provide career training for K-12 students in underserved neighborhoods. She’s also a board member of the Newswomen’s Club of New York, which supports women-identifying journalists in the New York area.

LaVonne Roberts

LaVonne Roberts is a health, technology, and science journalist specializing in long-form features. Her award-winning writing has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Time, Wired, Popular Science, The Independent, Longreads, and many other publications. Roberts is a contributing author and editor of Applied Virtual Reality in Healthcare: Case Studies and Perspectives and has contributed to five anthologies. She earned her MFA in Nonfiction Creative Writing from The New School and her BA in Written Arts from Bard College, where she studied sustainability. Prior to journalism, Roberts participated in the growth and consolidation of the online industry through venture capital, private equity, and seeing startups. She was a founding shareholder of one of the earliest most trafficked websites, XOOM (XMCM), which merged with GE’s NBC Internet assets, forming NBC Internet, the first global integrated media company. Building companies that grew from mere ideas to transformative global technology has helped Roberts look through an entrepreneurial lens when writing about the intersection of science, tech, and health. Much of her writing centers on how technology isn’t just changing society — it’s changing what it means to be human. A lifelong advocate, Roberts is a trustee of The Scott-Morgan Foundation, where she advocates treatments and assistive technology for people living with ALS and extreme disabilities. She is working on a book about Dr. Peter Scott-Morgan and the future of assistive technology. You can follow her at lavonneroberts.com and on Twitter @lavonneroberts.

Emilia Benton

Emilia Benton is a Houston-based freelance writer and editor primarily covering health and fitness. Her work has appeared in Runner’s World, Women’s Health, SELF, Prevention, Healthline, and the Houston Chronicle, among other publications. She is also an 11-time marathoner, a USATF Level 1-certified running coach, and an avid traveler.

Sherri Gordon

Sherri Gordon, CLC is a journalist with 20+ years experience covering health, parenting, and social issues. She also is an author of nearly 30 books for young readers and a certified life coach. Sherri’s work has appeared in Health, Parents, Verywell Family, Verywell Mind, Verywell Health, Verywell Fit, SleepCare, and eHow. She also is the former editor of Columbus Parent magazine and Home Living and is a bullying prevention and healthy relationship advocate.

Lindsey Galloway

Lindsey Galloway is a veteran magazine journalist who covers the intersection of travel, business, and policy. She has been a regular columnist for BBC Travel since their launch in 2011, and contributes regularly to Chief, a network for executive women. She has also authored guidebooks for Fodor’s Travel and Atlas Obscura, produced travel video for The New York Times, and serves as editor-in-chief and founder for trendspotting site TravelPretty.com. Her screenplay about Marie Antoinette’s painter is also currently in production development. 

Terry Collins

Terry Collins is a longtime journalist and currently a reporter at USA TODAY. He has previously written and edited at HuffPost, The Associated Press, Fortune and CNET (CBS Interactive). He has served on the board of the National Association of Black Journalists and as a judge for the National Headliner Awards.

Mara Santilli

Mara Santilli is a freelance journalist and editor specializing in content related to reproductive health, mental health, beauty and wellness, and the social determinants of health. Her work has appeared in InStyle, SHAPE, Women’s Health, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, SELF, Glamour, Well+Good, and more. She also has wellness content for brands including The Vitamin Shoppe, Cora, HUM Nutrition, and Parsley Health. She’s a graduate of Fordham University and is currently a graduate student at Yale University in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program focusing on reproductive politics.

Laura Baisas

Laura Baisas covers science news for Popular Science, where she covers a wide variety of topics. She previously spent close to a decade with NBC News and her freelance work has appeared in Inside Climate News and Hellgate. Laura has an MA in science journalism from the Columbia University School of Journalism and a BA from Marquette University. She is also an accomplished open-water marathon swimmer.

Craig Harris

Craig Harris joins ABC 10News as a Team 10 investigator following his career as a print journalist. He covers border water quality issues, biotech, courts, local politics, utilities and how your tax dollars are being used. 2024 marks his 33rd year as a journalist. Before joining KGTV, he most recently was the editor of the startup The Coronado News, which won two national awards for its investigation of the Tijuana sewage crisis. Craig has worked at seven daily newspapers, including USA TODAY and The Arizona Republic, where he was a two-time Polk Award winner for uncovering questionable spending in Arizona’s largely unregulated charter school industry as well as the wrongful firings of state workers with disabilities or who were people of color, elderly or LGBTQ+. He also was among the lead writers when The Republic was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news. Craig lives in South Park with his wife, Dr. Pamela Harris, and their beagle, Daisy. The couple has two grown children, Carson and Annalyse. Craig has a master’s degree in business journalism from Arizona State University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. Go Ducks!

Nor’Adila Hepburn

Nor’Adila Hepburn is a freelance commerce and lifestyle writer who’s contributed to various publications including Better Homes & Gardens, Real Simple, Southern Living, Trip Advisor, U.S. World News & Report, and more. She also is the founder of Hippo Khan, a marketing company specializing in product copy for e-commerce brands.

Mauricio Chamberlin

Originally from Venezuela, Mauricio researches claims, conducts interviews and adapts VERIFY digital stories into Spanish language. He went to graduate school in Argentina and is experienced in international news, multimedia and television production through his work at teleSUR English and public radio in Venezuela.  Mauricio is based in Charlotte.

Malissa Rodenburg

Malissa is a Seattle-based freelance writer covering science and women’s health topics. Her articles have appeared in Outside, Men’s Journal, Well and Good, 5280, among others. She was previously an editor for Women’s Running Magazine. She holds a BA in creative writing and an MA in science writing. In her freetime she writes poetry and short stories and travels widely.

Matt Alderton

Matt Alderton is a freelance writer, editor and journalist who specializes in feature writing for consumer and business publications, including newspapers, magazines and websites. A generalist in the truest sense, he’s written about subjects as diverse as classic cars, food science, personal finance, project management and Beanie Babies. His favorite subjects, however, include technology, sustainability, travel, food and social justice, including gender and racial politics and LGBTQ+ issues. Matt has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he studied magazine journalism, and a master’s degree in creative nonfiction writing, also from Northwestern. He lives on the Northwest Side of Chicago with his goofy and lovable Boston terrier, Tilly.

Leslie Cook

Leslie Cook is Money’s lead real estate editor, covering news stories about mortgages and how rate movements affect the housing market and writing and editing stories that inform our readers about real estate trends and how they affect homebuyers and sellers. Leslie writes a weekly newsletter, Money Moves, that covers a wide range of real estate topics in addition to her weekly articles. Her work has been featured on Apple News, MSN and ConsumersAdvocate.org. Leslie has been covering the mortgage and real estate industry at Money since 2019 and has interviewed industry leaders, such as HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors, and Glenn Kelman, CEO of brokerage Redfin. She has been a guest on the This Morning with Gordon Deal radio show, interviewed by The Mortgage Note, and served as moderator for ServiceLink’s State of Homebuying webinar.

Ashley Couto

Ashley Couto is a journalist, entrepreneur, board advisor, and award-winning writer with bylines in Business Insider, Entrepreneur, VICE, Conde Nast Traveller, Travel+Leisure, Well+Good and over a dozen other publications. She’s a 4x award-winning CXO with expertise in growing service & creator businesses to $10M and over 1000 clients under her belt and is Favikon’s third most influential person in online business in Canada. She helps her clients shift their offerings for scale and puts the team and AI-enabled systems and marketing in place to get their business to 8 figures. Ashley is a disabled and neurodiverse entrepreneur and a passionate advocate for the meaningful inclusion of people with disabilities in marketing & media, which you’ll often see reflected in her journalism. When she’s not writing an article or helping clients, you can find her working on her dissertation about Portuguese late medieval royal tombs at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

Stephanie Mickelson

Stephanie Mickelson is a freelance writer who works with publications such as US News & World Report, USA TODAY Homefront, Forbes Home, Angi, Go Banking Rates,and others. She covers a range of topics in the home improvement, commerce, and personal finance space and is always willing to try out tips, tricks, and products that she can bring to her audience. She earned her B.A in English Literature from The Ohio State University and M.S. in secondary education from Old Dominion University. 

Nate Swanner

An avid snowboarder, Nate calls Oregon home, in no small part because it’s got the world’s longest snow sports season. Nate transitioned to media over a decade ago after a successful career running state-wide championship golf tournaments along the west coast. He has helped several online publications reach all-time traffic benchmarks, written articles that have gone viral, and led branding efforts for key lifestyle publications. As an editor and writer, Nate’s work has spanned tech, auto, lifestyle, sports, and more. A huge baseball fan, Nate often schedules trips to see games around the world, particularly if his beloved Dodgers are playing.

Linda Chiem

Linda Chiem is a New York City-based senior transportation reporter with Law360. She writes about a wide range of legal and regulatory developments in the aviation, automotive, railroad, trucking, maritime, logistics and related industries. With more than 18 years of experience as a journalist, she’s previously written for Pacific Business News and earned her B.A in Journalism and French from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu.

Steven John

Steven John has been a freelance journalist for more than a dozen years, regularly contributing to publications including Business Insider, Forbes, Architectural Digest, The Daily Beast, US News & World Report, and many more. He also runs his own outdoor lifestyle site, DadGearReview.com, co-hosts the podcast Fact Trekkers with his son, and has had two novels published. A native of the DC area, John and his family live just outside New York City.

Natalie Campisi

Natalie Cerezo Campisi is a Los Angeles-based journalist and creative writer with over 20 years of experience. Known for making complex topics accessible, she covers a wide range of consumer finance topics via enterprise reporting and explainers at Forbes Advisor. Her work reflects a commitment to journalistic excellence, blending storytelling with a deep understanding of current issues. Natalie has developed social media strategies, moderated panels, and collaborated on impactful multimedia projects. She also writes plays, screenplays and children’s books, bringing imagination and empathy to audiences. A third-generation Tampeña, she holds a special interest in storytelling that connects with diverse communities.