Beth Kobliner
Beth Kobliner has been writing and speaking on personal finance for over fifteen years. She is the author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties (Simon & Schuster), a New York Times, USA Today, and BusinessWeek bestseller. She was a staff writer at Money magazine for eight years, wrote the money column for Glamour magazine for six, and has also contributed numerous articles to The New York Times. A regular on television and radio, she has appeared several times on Oprah to talk about personal finance and has been a repeat commentator on CNN, MSNBC, NBC's Today show, CBS, ABC, and various PBS and NPR programs. She is currently a financial correspondent and content consultant for Emmy- and Peabody-winning producer Tom Simon's upcoming PBS special on young adult finances, which will air in September 2009.
Kobliner has been an active spokesperson for the financial concerns of Americans in their twenties and thirties. She frequently speaks to college and corporate audiences on topics ranging from student debt to retirement policy, and has worked extensively with the Federal Trade Commission's "Project Credit Smarts" campus outreach campaign and other organizations to promote credit card awareness. She serves on the board of the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) and is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. In addition, she has testified before a U.S. Senate policy committee on young people's attitudes toward Social Security, was a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' National Commission on Retirement Policy, and has seen her work anthologized by the Brookings Institution.
