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Meet Bankrate’s editorial team

Introducing our team of award-winning editors and reporters, focused on delivering valuable financial insights. We take our responsibility to provide accurate and unbiased information seriously, and place our readers' trust above all else.

Key Principles

Helping people find a healthier
relationship with money

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Authority

We only feature credible internal and external experts from reputable sources.

Editorial Leadership

Bankrate's editorial leaders are committed to building and maintaining a team with deep expertise, experience, and reputation in finance.

Editors

The editors at Bankrate are integral to the writing process, meticulously fact-checking content for accuracy and leveraging their expertise in every piece.

  • Tori Rubloff

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    Senior Editor, Personal Finance
    Tori Rubloff is an editor at Bankrate, where she manages staff writers, copyedits feature articles and oversees production of data-driven, timely content that empowers readers to make informed decisions about their finances.
  • Chris Kahn

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    Managing Editor, Surveys and Data Studies
    Chris grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He trained as a physicist for several years before discovering the thrill that is the news business. He lives on Long Island with his wife, two beautiful children and mini-schnauzer, Remi.
  • Courtney Mihocik

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    Senior editor, credit cards
    Courtney Mihocik is an editor at Bankrate Credit Cards and CreditCards.com specializing in credit card news and personal finance advice. Previously, she led insurance content at Reviews.com and worked as the loans editor at The Simple Dollar.
  • Nouri Zarrugh

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    Senior Editor, Credit Cards
    Nouri Zarrugh is a writer and editor for CreditCards.com and Bankrate,  focusing on product news, guides and reviews. His areas of expertise include credit card strategy, rewards programs, point valuation and credit scores, and his stories on building credit have been cited by Mic.com, LifeHacker, People.com and more. Through his thorough card reviews and product comparisons, Nouri strives to demystify personal finance topics and credit card terms and conditions to help readers save money and protect their credit score.
  • Steve Dashiell
    Steven Dashiell is an editor for Bankrate and CreditCards.com with expertise in rewards credit cards, financial literacy, and helping consumers build and maintain their credit.
  • India Davis

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    Editor, Credit Cards
    India Davis is an editor specializing in credit cards and updates. She believes in putting the reader first and carrying out a brand’s voice to its fullest potential. She has lived and worked in three different countries and hopes to explore more of the world post-pandemic.
  • Reena Thomas, Ph.D.
    Reena Thomas, Ph.D., is an editor/writer at Bankrate and CreditCards.com with a focus on credit card reward offers.
  • Re'Dreyona Walker

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    Associate Editor, Credit Cards
    Re'Dreyona Walker is an editor for Bankrate and CreditCards.com, focusing on product guides and reviews. As a personal finance expert, she is dedicated to providing honest product reviews as well as in-depth, comprehensive guides to assist readers in building credit and finding the best credit cards for their needs.
  • Sarah Gage

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    Managing Editor, Credit Cards
    Sarah Gage is a managing editor on the Bankrate team. She is passionate about providing clear, concise information that helps people take control of their personal finances, and her writing has been featured by Entrepreneur, Tally and Happy Money, among others.
  • Brooklyn Lowery

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    Senior Editor, Credit Cards
    Brooklyn Lowery is a Senior Editor on the Bankrate credit cards education team where she focuses on helping everyday consumers leverage credit cards as powerful tools in their personal finance toolbox.
  • Liza Carrasquillo
    Liza Carrasquillo is an editor on the Bankrate credit cards team who focuses on providing accurate educational content to those at all stages of their credit card journey.
  • Alice Lesperance
    Alice Lesperance is an editor on the Bankrate team. Alice has more than 9 years of professional writing and editing experience, and she is passionate about helping people at all stages of their credit card journeys take control of their personal finances.
  • Madison Hoehn, CFEI
    Madison Hoehn is a Certified Financial Education Instructor℠ and editor on Bankrate's credit cards team. She brings over five years of editorial expertise to the table and is passionate about making readers feel seen and meeting them where they are in their credit journey.
  • Daniella Ramirez

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    Associate editor, Credit cards
    Daniella Ramirez is an associate editor on the Bankrate credit cards team who focuses on providing accurate educational content to those at all stages of their credit card journey.
  • Brooklyn Lowery

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    Senior Editor, Credit Cards
    Brooklyn Lowery is a Senior Editor on the Bankrate credit cards education team where she focuses on helping everyday consumers leverage credit cards as powerful tools in their personal finance toolbox.
  • Liza Carrasquillo
    Liza Carrasquillo is an editor on the Bankrate credit cards team who focuses on providing accurate educational content to those at all stages of their credit card journey.
  • Alice Lesperance
    Alice Lesperance is an editor on the Bankrate team. Alice has more than 9 years of professional writing and editing experience, and she is passionate about helping people at all stages of their credit card journeys take control of their personal finances.
  • Madison Hoehn, CFEI
    Madison Hoehn is a Certified Financial Education Instructor℠ and editor on Bankrate's credit cards team. She brings over five years of editorial expertise to the table and is passionate about making readers feel seen and meeting them where they are in their credit journey.
  • Daniella Ramirez

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    Associate editor, Credit cards
    Daniella Ramirez is an associate editor on the Bankrate credit cards team who focuses on providing accurate educational content to those at all stages of their credit card journey.
  • Andrea Coombes, CFP®
    Andrea Coombes, Bankrate's tax editor, loves to translate complex personal finance topics into understandable content that helps people live their best financial lives. She’s a Certified Financial Planner™ and over the past 25 years has worked as a financial coach, personal finance writer and editor and volunteer tax preparer. Her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, MarketWatch and many newspapers nationwide. She's been interviewed on local and national TV and radio, including NPR's All Things Considered, CBS News, NASDAQ and Marketplace.
  • Suzanne De Vita

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    Managing Editor, Home Lending
    Suzanne De Vita is a managing editor on Bankrate’s Home Lending team, focusing on mortgage and real estate topics for homebuyers, homeowners, investors and renters.
  • Troy Segal

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    Senior editor, Home Lending
    Troy Segal is a senior editor for Bankrate. She edits stories about mortgages and home equity, along with the finer financial points of owning and maintaining a home.
  • Laurie Richards
    Laurie Richards is a mortgage editor on Bankrate’s Home Lending team.
  • Amelia Buckley

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    Senior editor, Insurance
    Amelia Buckley is an insurance editor for Bankrate.com and an insurance agent with a personal lines license. She emphasizes creating informative, engaging and nuanced content to support readers in making personalized insurance decisions with confidence.
  • Jessa Claeys
    Jessa Claeys is an insurance editor for Bankrate with over a decade of experience writing, editing and leading teams of content creators. She is a licensed personal lines insurance producer in Colorado. Jessa currently covers auto, home and life insurance with the goal of helping others secure a healthy financial future. Her work has been published by several insurance, personal finance and investment-focused publications, including BiggerPockets, 401(k) Specialist, BP Wealth and more.  
  • Maggie Kempken

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    Managing Editor, Insurance
    Maggie is the managing editor for Bankrate insurance. In addition to overseeing the day-to-day operations of the insurance editorial team, she leads a team of licensed insurance experts who craft insurance content that makes complex information about home, auto, pet, renters and life insurance accessible and easy to understand.
  • Mariah Posey
    Mariah Posey is an auto, home and life insurance editor and writer for Bankrate.com. She aims to make the insurance journey as convenient as possible by simplifying industry lingo and implementing thoughtful content design to provide readers clear answers to their questions.
  • Lisa McArdle

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    Editor II, Insurance
    Lisa McArdle is an insurance editor who joined the Bankrate team in 2023. She has more than 15 years of experience writing, editing and managing content in a variety of industries, including insurance, auto news and pop culture.
  • Natasha Cornelius, CLU
    Natasha Cornelius, CLU, is an insurance editor for Bankrate, specializing in auto, home and life insurance.
  • Pippin Wilbers
    Pippin Wilbers, CCC™, is a Bankrate editor specializing in personal and auto loans. Pippin is passionate helping borrowers stay up-to-date and feel empowered in a changing and challenging borrower environment.
  • Rhys Subitch

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    Editor, Personal Loans, Auto Loans, and Debt
    Rhys Subitch is a Bankrate editor who leads an editorial team dedicated to developing educational content about personal loans products for every part of life.
  • Julie Linton

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    Managing editor, Loans
    Julie Linton leads Loans coverage for Bankrate. She is committed to helping readers navigate complex personal finance decisions.
  • Kellye Guinan

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    Editor, Personal Loans and Auto Loans
    Kellye Guinan is an editor and writer with over seven years of experience in personal finance.
  • Brian Beers
    Brian Beers is the managing editor for the Wealth team at Bankrate. He oversees editorial coverage of banking, investing, the economy and all things money.
  • Mercedes Barba

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    Former senior editor, investing
    Mercedes Barba was a senior investing editor at Bankrate. Prior to this, Mercedes served as a senior editor at NextAdvisor.
  • Marc Wojno, MBA

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    Senior editor, Banking
    Marc Wojno is a seasoned and accomplished finance editor and writer with more than two decades of experience editing and writing across a variety of news platforms including newswires, newsletters, magazines and online news sites.
  • Kristen Kuchar
    Kristen Kuchar is an editor at Bankrate with the Wealth team. She has written for personal finance publications for 15 years, covering a wide range of money topics throughout her career, including how to save money, debt management strategies and protecting your money while traveling.
  • Lisa Dammeyer
    Lisa Dammeyer is an investing editor at Bankrate. She has more than six years of experience distilling down complex topics for everyday people.

Writers

Bankrate's writers, with diverse backgrounds, expertise and experiences, offer information to help you foster a healthier relationship with money.

  • Alex Gailey

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    Principal Data Reporter, Personal Finance
    As a principal data reporter at Bankrate, Alex Gailey writes about the numbers behind consumer finance and economic trends.
  • Lane Gillespie

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    Writer, Personal Finance
    Lane Gillespie is a writer for Bankrate, specializing in writing well-rounded financial content that answers readers' questions, regardless of where they are in their financial journey. Lane was a real estate and business journalist for three years, specializing in his hometown of Houston.
  • Sarah Foster

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    U.S. Economy Reporter And Analyst
    Reporter and analyst Sarah Foster covers the Federal Reserve, the U.S. economy and economic policy for Bankrate, where she helps readers understand how the world’s most powerful policymakers in Washington, D.C., impact their personal finances. She’s covered the Federal Reserve and U.S. economy since 2018, when she joined the economics news team at Bloomberg News.
  • Ryan Flanigan, CCC
    Ryan Flanigan is a Bankrate credit cards writer with more than 10 years of experience using credit cards to help people reach their travel goals.
  • Brendan Dyer

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    Writer, credit cards
    Brendan Dyer is a Bankrate editor who writes and edits content for rewards, travel, cash back and business credit cards. He’s passionate about informing readers about the most innovative ways to use their credit cards and how synergistic multiple cards can be in the right hands.
  • Garrett Yarbrough
    Bankrate expert Garrett Yarbrough strives to make navigating credit cards and credit building smooth sailing for his readers. After regularly featuring his credit card, credit monitoring and identity theft analysis on NextAdvisor.com, he joined the CreditCards.com and Bankrate teams as a staff writer to develop product reviews and comprehensive credit card guides focused on cash back, credit scores and card offers.
  • Katie Kelton

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    Senior Writer, Credit Cards
    Katie Kelton is the Senior Writer on Bankrate’s credit cards team, where she brings eight years of experience writing creative and financial content to help cardholders get savvy with their credit.
  • Seychelle Thomas, CFEI®
    Seychelle is a credit card writer and Certified Financial Education Instructor℠ at Bankrate where she employs a cumulative 12 years of experience in the finance industry to help readers navigate the intersection of their money choices and consumer credit.
  • Ana Staples

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    Principal Writer, Credit cards
    Ana Staples is a principal writer, credit cards for Bankrate and an expert on all things credit basics and personal finance for the younger generation.
  • Benét J. Wilson

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    Lead writer, Credit cards
    Benét J. Wilson is a lead reporter at Bankrate who writes about credit cards and credit advice.
  • Marlese Lessing

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    Writer, Small business loans
    Marlese Lessing has been a writer for Bankrate since 2022. She brings a love of business finance and storytelling to her content creation expertise, alongside a background in B2B writing.  
  • Andrew Dehan

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    Senior Writer, Home Lending
    Andrew Dehan writes about home loans, real estate and personal finance. He's taken the NMLS Loan Originator education classes and passed the MLO SAFE test. Besides Bankrate, his work has been published by Rocket Mortgage, Forbes Advisor and Business Insider. He’s also a poet, musician and nature-lover. He lives in metro Detroit with his wife and children.
  • Jeff Ostrowski

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    Writer and Housing Market Analyst
    Jeff Ostrowski covers mortgages and the housing market. Before joining Bankrate in 2020, he spent more than 20 years writing about real estate, business, the economy and politics.
  • Linda Bell

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    Senior writer, Home lending
    Linda Bell is a senior writer on Bankrate's Home Lending team, producing content around HELOCs, financing home renovations, home equity loans and more.
  • Shannon Martin

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    Bankrate Insurance Expert | Writer, Insurance
    Shannon Martin is a licensed insurance agent and Bankrate analyst with over 15 years of experience in the industry. She enjoys helping others navigate the insurance world by cutting through complex jargon and empowering readers to make strong financial decisions independently.
  • Natalie Todoroff
    Natalie Todoroff is an insurance writer and industry analyst for Bankrate. She is based in San Francisco and holds a personal lines insurance license.
  • Ashlyn Brooks
    Ashlyn Brooks is a finance writer with more than half a decade of experience, known for her knowledge in areas such as taxes, insurance, investing, retirement, finance news, and banking products.
  • R.E. Hawley

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    Senior writer, Insurance
    R.E. Hawley is a senior writer for Bankrate. Prior to joining Bankrate’s insurance editorial team in 2024, they worked as senior writer for a popular car ownership and insurance comparison app, leading a team of over a dozen writers in creating customer-focused financial advice content on topics ranging from insurance to vehicle reliability and auto loan refinance. R.E. holds a personal lines insurance license.
  • Kathleen Howley
    Kathleen Howley is Bankrate’s principal reporter and analyst for home and auto insurance. She has more than two decades of experience as a financial journalist.
  • Rebecca Betterton

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    Writer, Auto Loans and Personal Loans
    Rebecca Betterton, a Certified Financial Education Instructor℠, is a writer for Bankrate who has been reporting on auto loans since 2021.
  • Denny Ceizyk

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    Senior writer, Loans
    Denny Ceizyk joined the Bankrate Loans team as a Senior Writer in 2023, providing 30 years of insight from his experience in loan sales and as a personal finance writer to help consumers navigate the lending landscape on their financial journeys.
  • Lauren Nowacki
    Lauren strives to simplify complex loan products and processes with over 12 years of experience in personal finance.
  • Brian Baker, CFA

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    Senior writer, Investing and Retirement
    Brian Baker covers investing and retirement for Bankrate. He is a CFA Charterholder and previously worked in equity research at a buyside investment firm. Baker is passionate about helping people make sense of complicated financial topics so that they can better plan for their financial futures.
  • James Royal, Ph.D.

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    Principal writer, Investing and wealth management
    Bankrate principal writer and editor James F. Royal, Ph.D., covers investing and wealth management. His work has been cited by CNBC, the Washington Post, The New York Times and more.
  • Karen Bennett

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    Senior consumer banking reporter
    Karen Bennett is a senior consumer banking reporter at Bankrate. She uses her finance writing background to help readers learn more about savings and checking accounts, CDs, and other financial matters.
  • Marcos Cabello

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    Writer, Banking and Deposits
    Marcos Cabello is a banking writer at Bankrate, where he’s dedicated to helping readers make the best decisions about their finances. Previously, Marcos wrote about money for CNET and NextAdvisor, running the gamut of personal finance topics including U.S. economic policy and cryptocurrency.
  • Matthew Goldberg

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    Senior Consumer Banking Reporter
    Matthew Goldberg is a consumer banking reporter at Bankrate where he uses his more than 14 years of financial services experience to help inform readers about their important personal finance decisions.
  • Rachel Christian
    Bankrate writer Rachel Christian covers investing and wealth management. She became a Certified Educator in Personal Finance (CEPF) with FinCert, a division of the Institute for Financial Literacy in 2021.
  • Sheiresa McRae Ngo

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    Writer, Consumer banking and Personal finance
    Sheiresa McRae Ngo is a staff writer at Bankrate. She is known for her expertise in personal finance and consumer affairs topics. Sheiresa's goal is to help people with budgeting and saving money. Her work has been featured in CBS MoneyWatch, Credit.com, Yahoo Finance, GOBankingRates, and MSN, among many others. She also contributed to two CNN segments on debt management.
  • Logan Jacoby
    Logan Jacoby is a financial journalist and investing writer for Bankrate where she covers foundational investing, cryptocurrency and alternative investments.

Publishers

Our editorial team creates valuable information, but it's our expert Publishers who ensure it's seamlessly presented on our website.

  • Brian Robson

    Brian Robson

    Senior web publisher
  • Chris Doyle

    Chris Doyle

    Web publisher
  • Liz King

    Liz King

    Web publisher
  • Itzel Garcia Ruiz

    Itzel Garcia Ruiz

    Associate web publisher

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