Jackie Lam

Writer

• 10+ years covering personal finance
• ACCREDITED FINANCIAL COACH®
• Bylines at USA TODAY Blueprint, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, and Forbes Advisor

Experience

Jackie Lam is an ACCREDITED FINANCIAL COACH® and freelance contributor who has spent over a decade covering personal finance news. Lam was proofreader and content editor over licensed products for more than three years at BrownTrout Publishers. Her previous work experience also includes contributing her finance expertise to USA TODAY Blueprint, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, CNET, Forbes Advisor, SoFi Learn, Yahoo Life, MSN, Newsweek Vault, and Time Stamped.

She is also a financial educator, specializing in working with creative freelancers, gig economy members, and artists. Lam currently lives in Los Angeles, California, and when she's not writing, she's playing with her massive sticker collection, at water aerobics class, biking, or playing the drums.

Expertise

• Budgeting
• Savings
• Loans
• Credit
• Insurance

Education

Lam has an anthropology degree from UCLA and a copyediting certification from UCLA Extension.