About Beth
Beth Kobliner is a personal finance commentator, advocate, journalist and author of The New York Times bestseller Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties. She has a regular segment on public radio's national program, The Takeaway, writes a monthly "Mind Over Money" column in Redbook, and frequently discusses kids and money with her daughter in the "Beth and Becca" segment for public radio's Marketplace. She has appeared on Oprah to talk about personal finance and has been a repeat commentator on ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC's Today show, as well as various PBS and NPR programs.
Beth has been a columnist at Glamour, a staff writer at Money magazine, a contributor to The New York Times, and was featured in the PBS program "Your Life, Your Money," for which she was also script consultant. Her work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Reader's Digest, and Moneywatch, and she has contributed to articles in O: The Oprah Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.
Additionally, she has testified before a U.S. Senate policy committee on young people's attitudes toward Social Security and has spoken at the Center for American Progress on the hazards of credit card debt. Beth sits on the board of the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) and was a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' National Commission on Retirement Policy.
Beth is a member of the New York Financial Writers' Association and the Society of Professional Journalists.
A graduate of Brown University, she lives in New York with her husband and three children.
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