Beth has contributed to The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Parade, and Reader’s Digest; has been a columnist at Money and Glamour magazines; and has regular columns on The Huffington Post (40 million visitors per month), Mint.com (10 million subscribers), and in Redbook magazine, which reaches 2.2 million readers a month.
As a content advisor for Sesame Workshop’s first-ever financial education initiative For Me, For You, For Later, Beth was delighted to offer on-air money advice to Elmo in a program viewed by more than one million families. She has been a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, NBC’s Today show, ABC’s Good Morning America, and CBS’s Early Show, and has been a regular contributor to the national public radio programs The Takeaway and Marketplace, on which she discussed teens and money with her daughter in the “Beth and Becca” segment. Beth appeared several times on Oprah, and was the featured financial correspondent on the PBS program Your Life, Your Money, for which she was also script consultant.
She is a regular lecturer on financial literacy, consumer finance, and related public policy issues at universities including Brown, Harvard, Yale, Howard, MIT, SUNY Westchester Community College, and New Jersey Institute of Technology, at which she recently spoke with Cory Booker about financial literacy and young people. Beth has also spoken at corporations and conferences including the White House Urban Economic Forum, National Journal LIVE, Campus Progress National Youth Conference, the American Savings Education Council, MTV, PepsiCo, and the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA).
Beth has worked extensively with the Federal Trade Commission’s “Project Credit Smarts” campus outreach campaign and other organizations to promote credit card awareness. She was a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ National Commission on Retirement Policy, and has testified before a U.S. Senate policy committee on young people’s attitudes toward Social Security. She is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, the New York Financial Writers’ Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Beth is a graduate of Brown University.
