Meet Bankrate’s editorial team

Tori Rubloff is a former editor at Bankrate, where she managed staff writers, copyedited feature articles and oversaw 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 specialized in writing and editing content about credit management, credit scores and helping people use credit cards to their full potential — without accumulating debt.

Nouri Zarrugh is a former writer and editor for CreditCards.com and Bankrate, who focused on product news, guides and reviews. His areas of expertise included 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.

Steve Dashiell has edited and written about personal finance for over 5 years, most of those centered around credit cards. Having experienced a few financial missteps following high school, Steve is dedicated to creating helpful, informative content that remains accessible to those who will benefit from it most.

India is a former Bankrate editor with expertise in credit cards that focus on students, building credit and small businesses. She also focused on content that discusses debt relief guidance and Gen Z financial advice.

Reena Thomas is a former credit cards editor for Bankrate. Her focus was on rewards cards and how to best maximize rewards. She also holds a doctorate in English Literature.

Re'Dreyona Walker is a former editor for Bankrate and CreditCards.com, who focused on product guides and reviews. As a personal finance expert, she was 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 managing editor on the Bankrate team. She has more than 18 years of professional writing and editing experience and is passionate about providing clear, concise information that helps readers take control of their personal finances.

Brooklyn Lowery is a Senior Editor on the Bankrate credit cards team. She has more than 20 years of journalism experience and has spent the past decade helping everyday consumers approach their credit cards and personal finance decisions with confidence.

Liza Carrasquillo is a former editor on the Bankrate credit cards team who provided accurate educational content to those at all stages of their credit card journey.

Alice Lesperance is a former editor on the Bankrate team with more than a decade of journalism experience. She’s passionate about helping people at all stages of their credit card journeys take control of their personal finances.

Madison Hoehn is a Certified Financial Education Instructor℠ and editor at Bankrate. She brings over six years of editorial expertise to her work and is passionate about making readers feel seen and meeting them where they are in their financial journeys.

Daniella Ramirez is a former Credit Cards Editor dedicated to helping young readers build smart credit habits, understand card rewards, and avoid common financial pitfalls.

Alice Lesperance is a former editor on the Bankrate team with more than a decade of journalism experience. She’s passionate about helping people at all stages of their credit card journeys take control of their personal finances.

Andrea Coombes, a Bankrate editor, translates complex personal finance topics into understandable language 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 former managing editor on Bankrate’s Home Lending team, who focused on mortgage and real estate topics for homebuyers, homeowners, investors and renters.

Troy Segal is a former senior editor for Bankrate. She edited stories about mortgages and home equity, along with the finer financial points of owning and maintaining a home.

Laurie Richards is a former 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 a former insurance editor for Bankrate with over a decade of experience writing, editing and leading teams of content creators. She holds a personal lines insurance license in Colorado.

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 is a former auto, home and life insurance editor and writer for Bankrate.com. She aimed 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 a former 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 a former editor for Bankrate with 15 years of experience in the insurance industry. She specialized in auto, home and life insurance.

Pippin Wilbers, CCC™, is a Bankrate editor specializing in loans. Pippin is passionate helping borrowers stay up-to-date and feel empowered 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 led Loans coverage for Bankrate. She was 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 a former managing editor for Bankrate. He oversaw 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.

I’ve been a personal finance writer and editor for more than two decades specializing in money management, deposit accounts, investing, fintech and cryptocurrency. Throughout the years of crunching numbers and words, I’ve been passionate about helping readers make informed decisions on managing their money with uniquely helpful advice.

Kristen Kuchar is a former banking editor with expertise in savings accounts, certificates of deposit and general personal finance, such as budgeting and saving money.

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

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

Lane Gillespie is a former writer for Bankrate, who specialized in writing well-rounded financial content that answered 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.

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 is a former Bankrate credit cards writer and Certified Credit Counselor. With his signature binder full of credit cards, he has used miles and points for years to help fulfill his travel goals.

Brendan is a former personal finance journalist for Bankrate who wrote informative and educational content about credit cards and building credit. He worked on content specifically geared toward users with bad or fair credit, and about credit cards with low-interest or 0 percent APR offers.

Garrett Yarbrough wrote credit card reviews, comparisons and guides for Bankrate. He comprehensively researched the credit card market and past offers for over five years in order to cut through the noise and put everyday people first.

Katie Kelton is a senior writer on Bankrate’s community team and Certified Credit Counselor™, helping everyday people solve problems and make good money decisions.

Seychelle is a former credit card writer and Certified Financial Education Instructor with 12 years of experience.

Ana Staples is a lead reporter at Bankrate and writes about credit cards and credit advice. She entered the credit industry contracting with Experian in 2019 and has since written about credit cards and other personal finance topics for numerous publications, including CNBC Select, Buy Side from WSJ and CNET.

Benét J. Wilson was a lead reporter at Bankrate who wrote about credit cards and credit advice. She entered the consumer lending industry as an associate editor at LendingTree’s CompareCards/Magnify Money in 2018. She was the senior credit cards editor at The Points Guy from 2019 to 2022.

Marlese Lessing is a former writer for Bankrate. She brought 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 is a personal finance reporter on Bankrate’s community team, where she helps readers make sense of how money works in actual people’s lives. She lives in San Francisco.

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 former 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 a former principal reporter and analyst for Bankrate. She holds a personal lines insurance license in Massachusetts.

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

Denny Ceizyk is a former senior writer for Bankrate, who drew on his 30 years of 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 covered 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.

Former 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 where she uses her years of banking and personal finance experience to help inform readers about money-related decisions. She’s been a reporter at Bankrate since 2021.

Marcos Cabello is a former staff writer at Bankrate covering the banking industry.

Matthew Goldberg is an award-winning writer who has been in financial services for more than 14 years. He uses his banking experience to help inform readers as they make important personal finance decisions.

Former Bankrate writer Rachel Christian covered 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 former staff writer at Bankrate. She is known for her expertise in personal finance and consumer affairs topics.

Logan Jacoby is a financial journalist and former investing writer for Bankrate where she covered foundational investing, cryptocurrency and alternative investments.