Meet Bankrate’s editorial team

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 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 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 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.

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 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., is an editor/writer at Bankrate and CreditCards.com with a focus on credit card reward offers.

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 is a senior 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 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 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 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 is an editor on the Bankrate credit cards team. She’s passionate about making readers feel seen and meeting them where they are in their credit card journey.

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 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 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 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 is an editor on the Bankrate credit cards team. She’s passionate about making readers feel seen and meeting them where they are in their credit card journey.

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, 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 is a senior editor on Bankrate’s Home Lending team, focusing on mortgage and real estate topics for homebuyers, homeowners, investors and renters.

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 is a mortgage editor on Bankrate’s Home Lending team.

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 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 is an insurance editor for Bankrate. She helps manage the creation of insurance content that meets the highest quality standards for accuracy and clarity to help Bankrate readers navigate complex information about home, auto and life insurance. She also focuses on ensuring that Bankrate’s insurance content represents and adheres to the Bankrate brand.

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 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, is an insurance editor for Bankrate, specializing in auto, home and life insurance.

Pippin Wilbers is a Bankrate editor specializing in personal and auto loans. Pippin is passionate about demystifying complex topics, such as car financing, and helping borrowers stay up-to-date in a changing and challenging borrower environment.

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 leads Loans coverage for Bankrate. She is committed to helping readers navigate complex personal finance decisions.

Kellye Guinan is an editor and writer with over seven years of experience in personal finance.

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 was a senior investing editor at Bankrate. Prior to this, Mercedes served as a senior editor at NextAdvisor.

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 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 is an investing editor at Bankrate. She has more than six years of experience distilling down complex topics for everyday people.

As a lead data reporter at Bankrate, Alex Gailey writes about the numbers behind consumer finance and economic trends.

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.

Principal writer 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 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 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.

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 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 is a credit card writer at Bankrate and Creditcards.com where she employs a cumulative 10 years of experience in the finance industry to help readers navigate the intersection of their money choices and consumer credit.

Ana Staples is a lead writer, credit cards for Bankrate and an expert on all things credit basics and personal finance for the younger generation.

Benét J. Wilson is a lead reporter at Bankrate who writes about credit cards and credit advice.

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 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 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 is a senior writer on Bankrate's Home Lending team, producing content around HELOCs, financing home renovations, home equity loans and more.

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 is an insurance writer and industry analyst for Bankrate. She is based in San Francisco and holds a personal lines insurance license.

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 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 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, a Certified Financial Education Instructor℠, is a writer for Bankrate who has been reporting on auto loans since 2021.

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 strives to simplify complex loan products and processes with over 12 years of experience in personal finance.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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 is a financial journalist and investing writer for Bankrate where she covers foundational investing, cryptocurrency and alternative investments.