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Jeanine Skowronski is an editor, writer, and veteran personal finance journalist with over 15 years of industry experience. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism and professional writing from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ).
Jeanine has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Publisher Partnerships at Natural Intelligence, Head of Content at Forage, Managing Editor at Red Ventures (Bankrate and CreditCards.com), Head of Content at Policygenius, Executive Editor of Credit.com, and a columnist for Inc. Magazine.
Her work has been featured in U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, American Banker, Newsweek, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, MSN, CNBC, and various other top financial publications. She has appeared as a credit card analyst and pundit on Vox, Slate, Good Morning America, The Willis Report, ABC World News with David Muir, NPR's Marketplace, USA Today, CNN Money, and other local radio and television stations.
Jeanine has authored several top studies on personal finance, including widely circulated research on how millennials were eschewing plastic back in 2014 and a white paper on parents and money in 2021. She is the founder and author of Money As If, a weekly personal finance newsletter. She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband, two cats, and two dogs.
Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Journalism and Professional Writing
The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)
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