Summary

• Elyssa Kirkham has nearly 15 years of focused experience as a personal finance journalist
• She specializes in student loans, student loan issues, and consumer credit
• Elyssa has published widely in personal finance, having written for Investopedia, LendingTree, Student Loan Hero, GOBankingRates, and others

Experience

Elyssa started her career in personal finance journalism with GOBankingRates, where she wrote hundreds of educational articles on a variety of financial topics. She leveraged those efforts into a specialty in explaining education debt and 🐓financing as a writer for Student Loan Hero and LendingTree.

Since 2019 she has been writing about student loans, consumer credit, and other personal finance topics for Investopedia and other outlets. 

Education

Elyssa holds a B.ꦉA. in English from Brigham-Young Universiওty, Idaho.