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Expertise: Family travel, credit card rewards, building and repairing credit.
Dawn Allcot has been a steady contributor to GOBankingRates for nearly 10 years and is excited to join the team at CardCritics™, sharing her best tips for managing credit and saving money. Dawn has 20+ years of experience writing about personal finance and travel, with thousands of stories published on prestigious sites like Chase, CNET, MSN, Yahoo Finance, Bankrate, The Points Guy, and others.
A former magazine editor, she loves taking complex topics and making them easy for today’s audiences to understand, whether that means breaking down the basics of Bitcoin or comparing travel rewards programs for top-tier credit cards. With a passion for family travel and saving money, Dawn spends every spare minute she can taking road trips and riding roller coasters. You can read about her travel adventures at GeekTravelGuide.net and in the bestselling travel anthology Outside the Box: Traveling Families that Work, Educate, and Live on their Own Terms.
Dawn lives on Long Island, NY, with her husband, their two teens, and five rescued cats.
Education:
Long Island University, Southampton
Experience:
Founder and Editor-in-Chief at GeekTravelGuide.net
Editor-in Chief, Paintball Sports Magazine
Contributor, GOBankingRates
Contributor, The Points Guy
Contributor, The Street
Contributor, Bankrate
Contributor, CNET Money
Contributor, Chase News & Stories
Contributor, American Express
Contributor, The Balance
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